Kaisa´s Birthday ....

Hi there!

I don´t like needleworks. Sewing, stitiching, crocheting...not my world, I even get aggressive when trying it !

So it´s better for me (and the ones who are with me) to buy these things :-)

This most wonderful little dress is knitted with something that looks for me like simple sewing thread (so I´ve been told it isn´t ) and is just adorable. It is made by Thea. (Click the name for the link). It will be displayes in the girl´s room in my Ballerina´s house. (One day...)

As I have been playing around with toys and children´s stuff at the time when I had to finish Kaisa´s Birthday gift I was in the mood to make some baby´s items for her. Kaisa´s birthday was last weekend so I now can show you what I made:

The baby is bought as my attempt was simply far too ugly :-) but I again did some mini needle felting for the bunny and the music-toy-moon. For the baby-carrier I just glued hat straw around a shampoo bottle cap and lined it with fabrics.

Again it was a whole lot of fun making these, thanks to Kaisa for organising this swap and I hope you had a

Wonderful Birthday!!!!

I have been honoured by Rosella with an award. Thank you Rosella for giving it to me!

The rules say that I must tell you five things about me (and of course I will not tell you the most interesting things, haha!)

Here we go: 

- I am LOUSY with realizing the dimensions of  my car. If you should see me unparking, you should better jump away quickly...

- something I remained since the months of my pregnancy with Jenny is my absolute dislike of the smell of canned fish. My wonderful husband who really enjoys canned fish only dares to eat it secretly when I am already asleep. But I still can smell it the next morning...

- I am big fan of the Harry Potter books and read all of them at least twice.

- I had to hold back tears when I first heard the poem "Steps" spoken by Hermann Hesse himself. Those words went straight into my heart.

Now, next thing would be to give this award to 15 other blogs. I could name more but I just have these

five for you. The blogs who make me want to do minis when I visit them:

- http://sabsminiinteriors.blogspot.de/2011/09/free-time.html

- http://marliesminies.blogspot.de/2012/04/finally.html

http://yuri-dollhousedays.blogspot.de/2011/09/working-space.html

http://lovejoybears.blogspot.de/2012/05/red-red-robin.html

http://nikkinikkinikki72.blogspot.de/2012/01/new-miniatures-in-my-etsy-shop.html

And finally here is the link for Susi´s strawberry tutorial.

For the giveaway I will follow Norma´s advice and make something I enjoy. It will be similar to the swap gift for Drora so I will not show you before the end of june :-) So much time, yeah ! 

A wonderful week to all of you!

Sandra

Still here.....

Hello!

Time seems to be flying and it is hard for me to find time for minis at the moment. So, most of my mini-time is spent for the Birthday Swap and I cannot show you the pictures yet.

But of course I want to show you Patty´s Giveaway whose lucky winner I am :-)

Thanks so much Patrizia for this wonderful table, pitcher and flowers!

For the moment it has found its place in Pippi´s cottage but its final destination will probably be in the MouseHouse...which is still a very sad sight. I know.

Actually I have a lot of materials here like the wallpapers and the brick stencils to continue but that will have to wait for a while.

And this is one of the last things I did: radishes and strawberries. Susi from MiniEdenTienda made the tutorial for the strawberries, but I can´t find the link now, but I will make the link then next time.

For the radishes I used white thin thread which I stiched through clay with the needle to form the root. I used almost white clay which I colored with the powder of red chalks before baking. Then I just glued some different sized leaves on some wires and  glued them on top of the radish...that´s all :-)

I like the red and green very much ...(as I already told you, Claude :-))) )

I am aware of the fact that there are almot 250 followers now and I think it is time to think about a giveaway, too. Any suggestions, hm???

I hope to show you some progress on the MouseHouse next time!

Bye, Sandra

A wonderful gift....

Hello!

How was your Easter? I hope you all had a great time!

Our Easter Sunday started with snow. A lot of snow...actually too much snow :-)

But as you can see on the picture above I did not need to search for gifts, mine came with the

mail :-) Karin made all these treasures above, just because I made a comment on her blog about the candy eggs...how cool is that!!!?  I love the wonderful colors of the candy eggs, but look at the

ladybirds and the other Easter candys! I will always treasure these!

Karin, vielen, vielen Dank für diese wunderschönen Oster-Leckerlies!

Here you can see my wonderful Forget-me-nots covered in snow...but I like the colors nevertheless :-)

In the meanwhile I have some dollhouses here:

- the Ballerina´s house : unfinished

- Pippi´s Cottage: unfinished

- Miranda´s Magical Seedlings: unfinished

Some might say, it would make life easier to finish them before I start something new and

You are so right!!!!.....but then I saw something so cute on Daphne´s Blog ...

Time to start something new again!!!! 

So I´ll start a tree-stump-house :-) Of course I will also need a mouse to live in

this house and so I ordered some felting stuff and started to practise:

This is Spike, my first try. Not good but I love him nevertheless. The poor lilttle chicks cannot run away...they don´t have feet :-)

Felting is quite some fun and today I started my mouse:

I felted the legs and arms and then I used some foam for the body and another little piece of foam for the head. For the nose and the eyes I used fimo, which I painted and then I used the powder of my soft pastels to  "decorate" the face a little bit more. And here she is:

Jenny Mandelblüte

(Jenny Almondblossom - my daughter Jenny chose the name)

That´s all for today...next thing is the treestump-house :-)

Have a wonderful week!

Hugs, Sandra

Spring...

Hello!

We are enjoying wonderful springtime weather here and so it was a lot of fun to make something for our online club´s monthly project "Spring and Easter".

I made the stable from thin woods and card board. The "wire" in the windows is from some net stockings I painted black and the roof is sand paper. The bunnies are from clay with fibers.

The boots are bought as is the wonderful watering can from Bözse, who is making the most wonderful miniatures.

Welcome to my new followers! Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Sandra

Spring feelings ...

Hello!

Juhuu...there´s spring in the air!!! We are enjoying sunshine today, the bird´s are singing...and we are still ill. But muuuuuch better. Thanks for all your good wishes and comments on my last post. Mini-me-Flutterby is also doing fine. And Birgit, I have a feeling, he won´t remain the only mini-one :-)

So, as we are recovering there´s been plenty of time for mini-making. And when I saw this stork at the GraphicsFairy I knew what to do! This is quite similar the way how we told our neighbours that Tom and Jenny were born :-) ...so this is now the decoration of my Ballerina´s house on Place Pigalle.

A while ago I started to buy and make things for the girl´s room under the roof in Place Pigalle. 

For now I put them in Pippis Cottage but as you can see, there´s a rocking horse (that was a kit from Kotte Toys I bought at the-special-shop.com),

and I had some fun making little fimo dolls :-)

...here´s Flutter, too!

The mini-mini-bench with the cutest teddies on it is a purchase from signea at etsy.

The dragon is still here from last autumn.

Of course the girls will need a dollshouse.  It´s quite crooked. Okay, THAT was not my intention, BUT it belonged to their mother and is a vintage piece :-)))))))

Yesterday was Simona´s Birthday. Simona, I hope that you had a wonderful day and that you will soon receive the missing gifts! Mine already arrived so I can show you what I made:

And a "Thank you!!!" to Kaisa who is organizing this fun Birthday swap!!!

And at least I would like to welcome my new followers with this springtime bouquet.

Thanks for visiting and taking time to leave a comment!

Hugs, Sandra

A Mini-Me from Flutterby

Hi there!

Reading other people´s blogs is such an amanzing journey full of inspirations, admiration for the work of others and sometimes I even fell in love with something....or someone :-) So, this is "my love" Flutterby! Usually he´s living with Birgit and I suppose she is not going to part with him as he is such a charming fellow. So, last night when I could not find sleep (we all catched the flew), I made my own Mini-mini-Flutterby :-))) As I cannot sew he is made of FIMO. Here you can see him with his already second pair of wings - my daughter obviously loves him too!

Liebe Birgit, ich hoffe, Du verzeihst mir mein Plagiat!

I hope you are all doing fine and have a good week!

Hugs, Sandra

Life happens while you are making plans...

Hello!

Actually my plan was to be a bit quicker with my next post, but although I am spending a lot of time making minis I just don´t get ready with anything, so today I´ll be showing you "details" :-)))

As you can see on my first picture, my witch Miranda has been very successfully in breeding a very rare Whomping Willow (okay, the foto is lousy, but this is also a very BAD MOODED Whomping Willow who constantly refused to say "Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese" for the fotographer!) And getting on the cover of the Daily Prophet...Mrianda couldn´t have thought about a better promotion for her witchy business "Miranda´s Magical Seedlings".  Then, the day before the guys from the newspaper arrived, Miranda transformed into a frog!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaagh!  She was up to use some polyjuice potion with a hair from Cassandra Clearwater

(an old enemy from her Hogwarts school days -both fell in love with a teacher called "Gilderoy"). Well, as you can easily see, something was wrong - maybe there was some frogspawn on the hair????

This will have to be sorted out. But until then Miranda needed another kind of a "bed"....

And I am busy collecting and making witchy stuff....

This beautiful cauldron is made by Georgia Marfels (as are the mice in the background and the Miranda frog) . While Miranda is preferring to have all kinds of flies for dinner, the cauldron is used for someone else...

This is Flitzhinaus, he is a GoldenDesertDragon -baby. He prefers warm temperatures and dry places, is even able to learn human speech (only if he wants to). You will not have seen one before, as they are rare. Really rare, almost eradicated be generations of males as their skin is the only working antidote against male hair loss.

And I made some other magical pumpkins and plants for Miranda´s store. And -of .course - 

a witch is supposed to have a lot of books. I only made a few yet :

And this is where Miranda´s going to live. My Café Igitt is going to get a new exterior and

"Miranda´sMagicalSeedlings" are on the first floor, her private rooms will be under the roof.

Somehow I am not able to make links today -sorry! 

Kaisa is organising a Birthday Swap and today is Rosella´s Birthday!

Happy Birthday Rosella!!!

As she already opened her gifts I can show you what I made:

And for my Ballerina´s house I made some more tulips, some roses and a shabby memo board:

Hey, I am really in the mood for springtime!  Are you, too???

Bye for now, hugs,

Sandra