My Swap with Cora

Hello!
It´s such a beautiful and shiny day, so I took the opportunity and used the good light for some mini pictures.
Recently I made a little "Eiffeltower-Swap" with Cora. Unfortunately she doesn´t have a website, we met in
our online mini forum. I made her some peonies in a basket, a pink lantern and gave her also such a little Eiffeltower like the one in my giveaway. And this is what I got in return :-)
A beautiful bucket with roses, a cute little picture with a checkered frame, a little pic from Eiffel-Tower,....

...an enamel sign for my Ballerina´s house...(finally I know where she´s living, lol!), and.....

THE CUTEST SHOES THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE!!! They are just georgous and look so perfect in this room.  Vielen, vielen Dank, Cora!!!

I played around with the furniture and this is how it looks now. The wardrobe should be also white but  it is so beautifully made that I don´t wanna spoil it .
We are having a christmas-swap in our online club and I was (and still am!) quite nervous about making the right little things. Can´t show you now but I´ve been playing around with Fimo also and this is my first
selfmade doll. His name is Pfefferminz ("Peppermint") and he´s one of Santa´s little helpers.

Okay, he still needs some clothes....and I´m in the need of a really good idea: can´t sew, crochet or knit. What a challenge, lol!
Greetings from sunny Germany!
Sandra

Thank you, Marlies!!!

This week there wasn´t lots of time making minis, as the time I had I was stalking other peoples blogs...WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS!

This would be the right time for greeting you with a beautiful bunch of flowers, instead of that you can enjoy this eye-candy of beautifuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul lingerie. And I´m spoiled again :-)

The left set is the one I bought from  Marlies , the right set is a present from her because I mentioned my birthday!!! How cool is that!!? And it´s not "only" the receiving of an unexpected gift, these dessous are just perfectly made:

 You can even close and open it with these minute hooks!

Thank you Malies, this is my favourite B-day gift!

And this is where it ended up:

This is the bedroom of my single-mom ballerina :-)

She´s not so tidy and needs quite some time to make a decision what she´s going to wear while a lot of clothes end up on the floor or thrown over furniture. Playing around with my minis this morning I painted and glued these empty frames on the wall. If I should ever want to remove them I will have to get new wallpapers... Now, this is the "silent edge" of the room where you can read a good book....

...put on some candles and of course you can also have a glass of water.

I don´t have a wardrobe yet, so some of the dessous are spilling out of the chest.

There is a nightgown draped on the bed, it is made by Mia and long time I simply refused to treat it with hairspray as it´s also so beautifully made. But it looks really nice on Gilian´s quilt. I´m not sure if I will leave the bed on that place but I will decide that when I have all the furniture for this room.

Today is going to be a quite sunny day and I hope you can also enjoy some sunshine wherever you are!

Hugs, Sandra

My first Giveaway!

Hello!

Time seems to be passing by like nothing but finally I could finish my first giveaway. Well, this is what you can win:

I made a little shabby lantern, painted a little Eiffel-Tower and made this shabby basket with some pink peonies. Yes, this doesn´t fit to this season (anyhow not here in this part of the world), but 

there will be springtime again :-)

To win this, all you have to do is:

- be follower of this blog

- leave A KIND comment on this post

It would be nice if you would write about this giveaway on your blog but this is not

neccessary to win.

This giveaway end on November 22nd, this is my best friends birthday.

I will put all your names in a basket and Jenny is going to draw one name.

Well, I am the lucky mom of two kids, so -as a matter of keeping the family´s peace-

this is the second part, who´s winner Tom is going to draw:

My more "autumn-themed" minis: a kitchen rack filled with some stuff. (I got the idea from

Marlies, there you can also see how really talented people can make such a shelf :-) )

Then I painted a little piece of wood with some pears, I made a little basket with fruits and decorated 

the containers with decals.

That´s all, really hope you like it!

Good luck!

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!