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!

Kleinigkeiten - Little things...

Hallooooo! Diese Woche habe ich einen neuen Versuch mit Knete gewagt. Eigentlich sollten´s NUDELN werden, dachte, das wäre einfach. Nun, die Nudeln wurden nix, dafür hat Pippi jetzt Türschilder. Auch da war der "Plan" anders: nämlich mit der Beschriftung "Willkommen" und "P. Langstrumpf". So klein konnte ich mit Pinsel allerdings nicht schreiben...ehm.
Hello-o! This week I was courageous to start another try with sculpey (last one was a desaster). Wanted to make some simple rigatoni noodles. Well, wasn´t simple enough! So, instead of that I ended up with two door signs. And here I actually thought when doing it, to write "Willkommen" and "P.Langstrumpf" on the signs, but I couldn´t write that small with the brush...ehmehm....but I like it nevertheless!

Dann habe ich noch etwas versucht, was ich eigentlich nicht kann: NÄHEN. Rena von "Tinydreams" macht so wunderschöne Sachen, dass ich das auch mal probieren wollte. Die Stofftasche und die Gartenhandschuhe sind Ideen von ihr, wobei mein "Nähen" mehr "Kleben" ist. TackyGlue forever!!! Das Tutorial für den gelben Stoffkorb ist aus "MimmisDollhouse".
Then I tried myself on another thing which I have no talent for: Sewing. Rena from "Tinydreams" creates so beautiful things for her patchwork store so I really wanted to try something easy looking. The garden gloves and the fabric bag are her ideas, whereas my "Sewing" should be more correctly called "Gluing". TackyGlue forever!!! The easy-made yellow fabric basket is from a tutorial from "MimmisDollhouse". Thanks for sharing!

Eine schöne, sonnige Woche!
Have a beautiful week!

Sandra

Fleißiges Wochenende - Busy like a bee!

Hallo! Zuerst möche ich mich bei meinen Lesern bedanken! Schön, dass es Euch gibt: Gillian, Jackie, Rena und Anarniel! Herzlich willkommen!
Hi there! First of all I want to say "Thanks!" and "Welcome" to my first followers: Gillian, Jackie, Rena and Anarniel!

Dieses Wochenende konnte ich für die Fassade nützen. Ich habe mit "Magic Brick Systems" gearbeitet, das ebenso einfach wie - meiner Meinung nach- effektiv ist. Zuerst wird eine Schablone aufgeklebt, dann verspachtelt.
This weekend I had some spare time to use for my dollhouse exterior. I ´ve been working with the "Magic brick system" which is actually quite easy to work with. First you stick a template on, after that you apply the brick paste. After a few minutes you can remove the template and can also "age" the bricks, if you want so.
Nach dem Trocknen sieht es dann so aus:

 This is how it looks now. The texture is quite realistic. Only, I did a bit too much "aging" and it´s a bit dark now. This is the look through the bay window.

 Mit dem Dach bin ich auch fertig, wobei ich ein paar der Holzverzierungen weggelassen habe, weil sie mir dann doch zu schnörkelig waren. Und weil ich Wimpelketten so liebe (und sie SOOOOO einfach sind!), habe ich gleich noch eine für den Eingang gemacht. Man soll gleich sehen, dass hier eine Schwedin wohnt!

I could also finish the roof and so I can start decorating a bit. There are going to be some flower beds and more ivy on the wall. And, as a Swedish person is living here, there is a swedish bunting on the entrance.
(I LOVE buntings.... so EASY to make!!!) I wonder: what is typically Swedish???

P.S. Und wirklich nur eine einzige Brandblase von der Heißklebepistole!
P.S. And I really succeeded in getting burnt from the hot melt just ONCE!!!

Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche!               Have a nice week!