Shabby Chic Garden Shed

Hello!

Some nice people keep reminding me to do a blog post so here it is :-)

Last year Kaisa organised an international Birthday swap and with a delay of 10 months I was finally able to send my last gift to dear Gillian who never lost a bad word about my delay. Thanks, Gill!!!

I made  her a shabby chic garden shed but it could probably also be used as a beach hut :-)

It is made of coasters and some coffee stirrers from a friendly fast food restaurant :D

I made some this and thats for the inside but there´s still free space for Gill to decorate with her own ideas.

The watering can is made of paper and a straw from a kid´s drink and painted with a coat of my daughter´s VERY pink nail polish :-)

For the rubber boots I used Monika´s tutorial (and some swear words!)

And another tutorial: the clematis is made with Annie´s tutorial.

Although my trust in mail service is not so high Gill told me that everything arrived safely in Spain :-)

And here - tadaaa! - are two fluffy reasons who are keeping me from blogging:

This is little Hermine (named after Harry Potter´s clever friend)...

...and his fluffiness Pimpf.

Before they came there were some more flowers on my window sills (gone forever!), but how could I be angry on them !!?

My son is going to have his first day in school next week and my husband and I are probably more excited than him! (Where did time go?) So life is changing a bit with doing homework with him and learning but nevertheless I hope to be a bit quicker with my next post.

Thanks to those how come by and leave a comment, of course I read them all and they mean a lot to me!

Hugs, Sandra

Maggie Applewhite

Hello Bloggers!

Thanks to all of you who have been wondering if I am doing well because of my long absence! I´m fine, real life just keeps me quite busy. Two weeks ago we spent a week vacation on the Lago di Garda and we had a wonderful time there and...my energy is back!

This weekend I´ve been playing around with my witches shop "Miranda´s Magical Seedlings". I paper-backed the shelf for the potions, finally made a broom...

..which is an absolute MUST HAVE for every decent witch, played around with the furniture...

...and  bits and pieces...

...and made Whoo-Hoo-Apples (very delicious in witchy apple pies AND 100% organic!)..

...to be more attractive for our magical customers. Here´s the first buyer, dear witch 

Maggie Applewhite who lives in the neighborhood.

Don´t worry, she is a really good witch. Most of the time :D

I am so happy how she turned out (more "alive" than my other dolls), although she was really, really ugly until the moment she had her hair and hat on and I almost threw her away :-)

But now I also want to introduce you to someone else:

PIMPF

This little miniature is going to live with us in a few weeks :-))))))

Isn´t he CUTE!!!?

Bye for now,

Sandra

Sweet Dreams

Hello there!

Who would have thought that: the room is almost finished :-) But first, some of you made compliments for the wallpaper. It is "Rose Floral - cream (WAL 0894) and I bought it from artofmini.com. When you look through their wallpapers section, you will find this paper on page 10.

Sunday I had unexpectedly some time for my own and I used it for painting. I did a lot of drawings when I was in my teenage days but nothing of that kind within the last 20 years (pffffff...!!!) but then it was so much fun to paint the "art" for my mini-bedroom by myself! I guess, I will make some more :-)

It is above on the left side.

From a little distance it looks really good :-)))))

But that was not all. Ilona encouraged me to paint the floor white and I did it. I also glued the same wallpaper behind the open door and made a dish shelf for the wall, so that it´s not complete empty but leaves some room for the dollhouse people to move (but only if they are size 0).

For the ceiling I used strips of thin cardboard that I painted and then just some wooden strips from the craft store as timbers.

In the evening...

And at daylight:

Some more decoration is needed, but it is already quite cozy, isn´t it?  Maybe I should tell

my wonderful husband that this is the look I want for our bedroom ...haha!

Is the style of your dollhouse similar to your real home? That would be interesting to know!

Have a wonderful week!

Sandra

Progress in the Ballerina´s House

Hello Everybody!
The lazy blogger is back with a little progress in the ballerina´s house. A friend of mine is visiting us tomorrow and as she´s always interested in my houses I want to be able to show her at least one half-finished room.

I am adoring one very romantic room in Lea Frisoni´s book for ages and now I want to try to make my own romantic mini-room. So weeks ago I started with making new walls with panelling with a lot of cardboard.
The swags are embossed paper I found in a store. Very useful :-)

I still have to make a decision about the color of the floor (mayby paint them white?), then the ceiling....but not today :-)...

The little girl in the frame is my stepmother, it is so nice to have her here in mini, too! 

 These two guys are the result of my attempts in needlefelting "vintage style" bears, wonderful job when hubby´s watching football on TV ...

Today I found a kit for making luggage which I had completely forgotten about. It is from Hilda Burden and I think I got it from ebay uk and it was very easy to make. On the suitcases I put a little Het Loo-dollshouse from Volker Arnold. I made a mistake when buying it as I actually wanted a larger one. But then it was also
easy to built and there are even some trees in different sizes and a few horses with this kit....and I love it :-)

(The lovely dress is made by Kaisa)

That´s all for today. I want to thank you for your comments on my last post (Miranda is very amused, too!) and  also "Welcome!!!" to my new followers! 

Hugs, Sandra

Happy Together!

Hello!

So much time has passed since my last post! Now I really hope that you enjoyed a very happy Christmas and wish you a Happy 2013!  The last year seems to have been a difficult year for many of us so I hope that 2013 will have a lot of positive surprises for us!

Quite a while ago, actually in the night of Helloween, it was finally time for cutting the mandrakes for a very special beer. Our houseelf Albert is a bit soft-hearted, so for this special job we had to organize the help of another elf, Alfie. 

Yeah, and Alfie didn´t hesitate and made a quick job....and the mandrakes soon were cut in little bits and came into a bottle, along with some spices and other, secret ingredients (Better, you Muggles don´t know too much of it!)...after that the bottle was corked and had to thicken over some weeks.

Albert was sooooo glad! But also worried: would it work? Could Miranda finally be human again????

Last night was THE night. Time to find out....

YES!!!!

She is back :-)

Still, Miranda needs some time to recover from her long existence as an owl...and the urgent desire to eat some mice....

...but Albert and Miranda, they are soooo happy together!

Have a happy week!

Sandra

Birthday gifts :-)

Hello!

This year I am taking part of Kaisa´s Birthday Swap and this time it was me who had the fun to open lovely gifts of lovely ladies :-))

Thank you, Ladies, you´ve spoiled me rotten!

I am still waiting for the last three, so my birthday celebrations will last a little bit longer.

Above you can see Kaisa´s gift, a wonderful coathanger with a bunch of Lavender and a wonderful and romantic dress. As you can see it already ended up in my sewing room. The heart hanger is from Gill.

This is also from Gill. A collection from her wonderful work. Made with love and as you can see

even the packaging is a gift :-)  Gill has also sent me some lovelies for my sewing room but I unfortunately cannot show you, my camera refused to work at this point. And  "Sorry, no! I did not wait until my B-day to open it!".... and I can tell you, my little kids were really horrified by their nasty mum!

Rosella sent me some of her wonderful and tiny stitching and crocheting along with an umbrella which will be perfect for my beach-house-project :-)

Drora sent me so many wonderful things! I love the water spender - you can put the lights on!!!

And I think this vase is one of Drora´s own pottery work! These flowers will be perfect for Pippi! You cannot see on this pic but there are the tiniest sea shells inside the sea shell box. And it is wonderful to know that they come from the sea of Galilea. 

This is Simona´s gift. A baby album with baby bottle, handmade plates and findings to get creative :-)

From Teresa I got the cutest toadstools in a glass with a snail and a butterfly. Then a roof tile that is decorated with a fairy scene and two cushions with kitten. Teresa also was so kind to send me a little gift for Jenny. I will show you later, Mademoiselle had not enough time for posing today, but a BIG

"Thank you, Teresa!" from Jenny!

These carpet slippers for his and her are from Fabiola :-) So romantic with the "Love" stitching on the towel. Makes me thinking of a honeymoon scene!

Karin´s gift consisted of some romantic items like the wonderful bowl on an iron stand and a rose-shaped candle holder, sweets (I got gummibears, too!!!) and withy stuff :-))))

My little witch Emily (she´s from Julie Campbell) and Karin´s skeleton instantly had to try some of these yummy yummy eyeball cocktails....

Cheers!

Oooops....obviously there´s quite some alcohol in there, too :-)))

Karin, auch an Dich ein grosses Danke von Jenny! 

Thanks to all of you!!!

Jennifer asked me about fabric printing after my last post. I am not an expert, but if my camera decides to work again I will make a few pics and will post about it next time. 

Hugs, Sandra

My Pippi

Hi there!

Skiddi, a miniature friend and I are big fans of Pippi Longstocking, so we decided to make a Pippi scenery for Christmas. Here is my Pippi (I know she doesn´t look at all like the wonderful Inger Nielson from the Pippi movies - but I really like how she turned out). Made of Fimo clay and a body from pipe cleaners.

I was very lucky because Skiddi found a picture of this apron somewhere in the net. I only had to print it out on fabric, folded in the fabric´s edges with glue, sewed the pockets on and it was ready :-) As printing on an old hanky fabric worked so well I also printed a digital scrapbooking background on the fabric to use for the  blouse. 

The little rug is a picture from a real quilt I found on pinterest. Not everything works so easy...unfortunately this starving cat was acutally supposed to be a pug dog, lol :O)

Pippi now needs her monkey...wonder with which species I will be ending up when I am ready with it :-)

Hope you like my little doll!

There are some other things I want to show you but it is difficult to find time for blogging. Hopefully this is getting easier in a few weeks.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs, Sandra