HOUSE OF LITTLE TOMATO

CRAFTS | PARTIES | PUZZLES

A website chronicling the crafts, parties, and puzzles created at our home in the Midwest – the House of Little Tomato.

Magical Wall Mural

Our 'spare bedroom' in our house has changed use over the years we have lived in our home. Initially it was a craft room where Little Tomato and I would do crafts and I would work on art projects. As we began to finish out our basement, we converted the...

Escape Room Tools: Locks, Boxes, and Bags, Oh My!

Home escape room parties are different than the professional game rooms that you pay to play. Unless you are willing to spend significant sums of money to develop or purchase custom locks, boxes, and ciphers for your game, it is much more cost effective to utilize commercially available products as...

Magical Alley May Update

The magical alley construction has picked back up after our winter hiatus, and we are making progress! Over the past couple of months, husband and I have completed the S&J and the Potages storefronts. This is the main shop wall of our alley.[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1540" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The general construction of this...

Magical Key Box Tutorial

  Magical Key Box Tutorial [vc_column_text]Those who know Husband and me, know that we host an annual magical escape room party at Halloween. Each year we are expanding our props, decorations, and escape room game design. So when LitJoy Crate released a MAGICAL KEY collection, of course I had to...

Magic Alley Continues… Beginning of Apothecary & Potages

The first post on the magical alley detailed the Flourish and Blotts mobile display [HERE]. Once this project was significantly completed, we began working on the Slug & Jiggers Apothecary & Potages windows that would face Flourish & Blotts across the alley walk. Apothecary & Potages Layout: After reviewing photos...

Magical Alley Project Begins

We did not host our annual Halloween party in 2020 due to the pandemic. However, our summer was occupied with building a shed workshop instead of our usual puzzle planning. With the shed newly completed, our Halloween props and decorations have migrated into storage out of the house and into...