Christmas Preparations in Pippi´s Cottage

Hello!

Hopefully you all are enjoying these beautiful times! Real life keeps me quite busy these days so I thought I should  use this moment and make a post. I got some lovely gifts from Gillian (MakeItSmall), Lena (Miniatyrmama) and Rena (Tinydreams). Maybe you can spot them here or there but I´ll make

an extra picture with them later. Thank you girls!!!

And I already spent my Christmas money on some lovely minis :-)))

Some impressions from Pippi´s Cottage:

Some Christmas bakery has already been done and the Little Uncle was kind of a big help for Pippi. He´s very talented in making Oats Horseshoe Biscuits.

More delights are already bought....who wants to make that in the hectic of Christmas day??

And of course the are the Christmas decorations....(Danke, Rena!)

...Mistletoe....

And my latest buys..the cutest crocheted Santa and Snowman are from Minimami

and the amazing egg warmer with the Christmas tree arrived yesterday

from Rosanna! 

I felt really brave when I painted this cupboard pink but now I really like it this way.

Thanks to you people out there, it is so much fun and inspiration  with you!!!

I wish you all a very happy Christmas time and a healthy and lucky 2012!

Hugs, Sandra

Oh....Geroge.....!

Catherine and her two girls are spending some time with Pippi. The girls love Pippi and they are having a
whole lot of fun there. This morning they went to the market early and Pippi took the little girls to the playground while Catherine wanted to return home and get some sleep. She just started unpacking when
it knocked on the door...it was GEORGE!!!

How nice.....how charming....you can surely imagine how happy Catherine felt! And George even brought some gifts!.... The cutest little bear for baby Charlotte and and the lovely orchid she had admired so much
quite some time ago. (Did not buy the flower then as George refused to carry this home.) Catherine was
really touched that HE remembered...but then something went completely wrong...that was when Cat opened the last parcels...

.......................oh................................GEORGE!!!!

And the winners are......

Hello!

Just a short post to announce the winners of my first giveaway.

I want to say "Thank you!" to all of you for visiting my blog, joining and

leaving so nice and encouraging comments! 

So, here we have Fortuna´s little helpers Tom and Jenny....

...this was also a very exciting moment for me!

Now, the winners are:

The peonies are going to FabShabbyRoses and

the kitchen set  is going to Spain to

Isabel! I really hope that you are going to like them!

Ladies, would you please email me your addresses?

Then, I would like to ask my followers #100 Synnove and

#150Doortje to also send me their addresses :-))

That´s all for today, my kids want to have dinner!

Hugs, Sandra

WELCOME ....Drama on Place Pigalle!

Hello again!

So many new followers - WOW! Thanks for spending your time here!

If you haven´t done it so far, please join my giveaway until the 

22nd.

As you can see I made some new flowers, this time with kits again

from Pascale Garnier: pink and white peonies and a poinsettia.

I really love how the peonies turned out and here are my first

Christmas decorations:

A little wreath for Pippi´s cottage....and No! The door doesn´t need

new color, that´s Shabby Chic, lol!

Here´s the glitter-decorated poinsettia with a skater.

But besides this ordinary things a little drama happened in

Catherine´s (yow! she finally has a name!) house::

She´s got another baby girl! Still nameless, but well: I will need

a little girl´s room with a cradle soon. Catherine has been hoping

that the baby´s daddy would decide to live with them. But he is not

the  family-type of a man and rather wanted to stay in Como...

So, she only could put a photograph next to baby´s bed. So sad.

I´ve been trying to make a little girl from fimo, but it´s always boys-heads that

are coming out :-( 

In the meanwhile: do you have suggestions for french first names for Catherine´s two

girls? (And "No! I do not think that "Georgina" sounds french!")

Have a good time!

Hugs, Sandra

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!