LUCKY GIRL II

Hello again!

Unexpected gifts are often the best: I was the lucky winner of

Rosanna´s Giveaway!

Something for an artist and now owned by a job-less, single-mom

Ballerina who´s living in my other house:

An easel with provence paintings, canvas, sketch books, a mug

with pencils and a box with oil-painting tubes.

Isn´t it incredible how neatly the box with the tubes fits into

my drawer!??

If you want to know how these are made, Rosanna just made a

tutorial on her blog!

I´m sorry, it´s so cloudy here all day so that I couldn´t get

better pictures and they don´t do Rosanna´s minis justice!

How boring was this room before your minis arrived, Rosanna!

Thank you so much!!!

Lately I´m working more than usual, so my hobby-time is quite limited, but

I´ve  also started to work on my first giveaway. That will be my next post and I really 

hope to be ready with my giveaways soon :-)

Have a good time!

Sandra xxx

Welcome .... and a link :-)

Hello!


First of all I want to say "Welcome!" to my new followers!  I should have done this much earlier as now it would take quite a while to mention you all separately together with your blogs. And what blogs you have!!! So now just a Thank-you!, you´re making me proud!


This now is the link I wanted to share:Joann is making a lot of projects and shares so much of her ideas. Recently there´s a potting table and she´s also sharing her printies and such.
Have a look!

And this is what I could finish the last days. (And I feel like a little hero about that, as for the Ranuncula I had to glue about 300 leaves!). The red ones are a kit from Pascale Garnier. The Bluebells and the Echeviera come from Georgie Steeds, like the peonies in my last post.
That´s all for today, have a fine week!
Sandra

Miranda´s Magical Seedlings...

"Let the inspiration flow...", that´s what I did this week. I having a break from Pippi´s house and now I´m filling the "penthouse" of one of my other houses instead.

This is the home of Miranda, a witch who is found of making all kinds of charmed seedlings, like mandrakes, talking potato-heads and so on.

The peonies above are made from a kit from Georgie Steeds (The miniature garden center). I was not sure if I should show you as I got aware that she´s amongst my followers now. :-) These kits are quite easy and quick to assembly and I got better with every flower. So, this is why I´m not showing you the burgundy peony which I made first but this white one.

This is how Miranda´s working room looks now. I wanted very soft colours for it. The floor is not going to stay that way, I want a sandstone floor made like the brick fassade of Pippi´s house. Also, I want to make a brick stove with a little dragon sleeping in the ashes.

I made a whole lot of pumpkins, mushrooms, monster-bottles and plants with faces.

And you can see my first attempts with wickering. I´ll have to give you the link for the blog

where I found this tutorial!

The little needle felted owl is from Suskita(Suskita).  In her shop I also found the inspiration for this hungry geranium plant:

So, you see that I was having fun this week! The weather is finally fine and really HOT, my husband´s off from work and we´re enjoying making trips with the kids. This last picture was taken last week when we were visiting the zoo in Munich. I´m sharing it because my fullsize mini Jenny is having her 

3rd Birthday tomorrow. She´s a little devil, but I´m sooo proud!

Have a good week!!!

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT...

Hello!
When I saw this bikini and beach bag set in Caterina´s blog it was "Love at first sight" to me. After my comment on it, Caterina kindly informed me that she was going to sell a copy in her etsy shop "Le Minis di Cockerina". Well,
now it´s mine" :))
I also ordered a "favourite" of my little daughter: Spaghetti:

Pasta, tomatoes and my free rag (what´s the word for this??), isn´t it a beautiful addition to Pippi´s kitchen?


My real life kept me quite busy the last weeks. Jenny got the hot iron on her foot about three weeks ago and Tom had to be operated last Wednesday.
So I was a lot of time spending at the kid´s doctors but now we can enjoy the rest of summer and the holidays.
Speaking about "summer"...again it´s raining cats and dogs and it´s already quite fresh in the nights, doesn´t "feel" like summer at all. So, that was probably my inspiration for making these...

Pumpkins...mushrooms and lanterns. Maybe I can use them for a little Halloween scene with The Very Shabby Eddy? Anyhow: I enjoyed making them as they are EASY =) and I really like the colours.
The little blackbird is from Georgina Marfels... Happy Halloween, harhar!

Sorry, Gill....!

... Actually I am supposed to get Gill´s package ready, but instead of that I made this little kitchen 

shelf from cardboard last night. I hope I can make some more furniture for the kitchen that way!

LUCKY GIRL

Hello!

This week began with a BIG surprise for me. Look, what I

found in our mailbox on monday! This wonderful quilt was made by

Gillian (www.makeitsmall.blogspot.com) and came here as an absolutely

surprise! Can you imagine how thrilled I was!??

Gill made the design by herself on the computer as she could not find

suitable fabrics. Isn´t it beautifuuuuuuul??

Thank you so much, Gillian!

 

This week I did not have a lot of time for my minis as my work and

my "Fullsize-Minis" kept me quite busy.

But this is my first attempt in working with dollhouse water and

flower-making without a kit. It´s okay, but the lower leaves of the

nymphea got soaked by the "water" and the long stalks got pressed against the

basin when I filled in the water. So: Back to working with kits!!!

Here in Germany we have really rainy weather for the last weeks, so I hope that you

can enjoy your summer!

Welcome!

WELCOME new Followers! WILLKOMMEN!

Many thanks for following and leaving your warm comments!

Herzlich willkommen in meinem Blog! Vielen Dank für´s Lesen und die lieben Kommentare!

You´ve got so beautiful and interesting blogs so I thought I should mention them here too:

Bis jetzt habe ich es noch verpasst, Eure Blogs zu nennen, möchte das jetzt aber nachholen, weil es bei

Euch soo viel zu entdecken gibt!

Sonia (minitink.blogspot.com)  Hurry! Her giveaway is ending today!!!

Marlies (marliesminis.blogspot.com) Always amazed what she´s doing with papers!

Carol (weecutetreasures.blogspot.com) Her blog is very "Yummy" these days!

Anarniel (anarnielslittleworld.blogspot.com) So sad I didn´t win your giveaway!

Rena (renafula.blogspot.com) Great inspiration and always there to answer my beginner´s questions so politely! DANKE!!!

Jackie (fridayschild-jackie-blogspot.com) Look over there: not only 100-ways-to-style-canisters but also so much more!

Gillian (makeitsmall.blogspot.com) I just looooove your quilts!!!

Margriet (margriets-miniatures.blogspot.com) As you can see a little further down here, I took a lot of inspiration of your mummy! Thanks for sharing!!!

Carmen (pekevasion.blogspot.com) who is also quite new in Blogland (like myself!)

and

Norma (makeminemini.blogspot.com)... who is one of the warmest and niciest persons around here in Blogland!

Eva and Eve, I couldn´t find your blogs, but if there´s one, just let me know and I´ll mention them in my next post! :))

Kids and work kept me quite busy but nevertheless I could finish a few things.

 I had some fun making clay oranges and lemons. Only: the lemons are too big or the oranges too small...that´s why you don´t see them together on one picture! :)))

Ich hatte nicht viel Zeit für meine Minis, aber ein paar Sachen habe ich dann doch noch fertig

gebracht. Meine Fimo-Orangen sind jedoch zu klein oder die Zitronen zu groß, deswegen seht Ihr sie auf zwei verschiedenen Fotos, höhö!

And I could finally make these chairs from a kit for Pippi. The other ones were only borrowed from my café.

Und ich konnte endlich diese Stühle für Pippi machen, die anderen waren nur eine "Leihgabe" aus meinem Café.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand now: The Very Shabby Eddy

Margriet made such a cool mummy and kindly shared the link in her blog (margriets-miniatures).

I just had to try it and here is my zombie Eddy. He was living all his life in the cottage where now Pippi´s living in. He didn´t realize, that he has already passed away and so he´s still walking around the cottage every now and then. That´s the reason why Pippi got the cottage so cheap! While other people run away screaming Pippi is actually quite found of him (he´s really nice manners!) and loves having a little chat with Eddy.

Tatatataaaaaaaaa! "The Very Shabby Eddy". 

Margriet hat eine wunderbar-hässliche Mumie gemacht (kann man bestaunen auf: margriets-miniatures.blogspot.com) und gleich noch den Link für das Tutorial geteilt. Den Spass habe ich mir gestern Abend gegönnt und das Ergebnis seht Ihr hier. Mein Zombie heißt Eddy, wohnte sein ganzes Leben in 

diesem Cottage und hat nicht mitbekommen, dass er eigentlich schon gestorben ist. Deswegen schleicht er immer mal wieder durch´s Haus, was den Kaufpreis dann doch etwas (bzw. sehr) gedrückt hat.

Pippi mag ihn eigentlich sehr, sie mag seine wunderbaren "Gentleman"-Manieren und genießt die kleinen Schwätzchen mit ihm!

(Thommy´s Mutter hat allerdings Angst vor ihm und kommt deswegen nicht so oft vorbei.... Hurraaaaaaaaaaaah!!)

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!