Gifts and purchases.

 

This lovely urn is almost like a bride bouquet!

It was a gift from a very talented Japanese friend; Yukari Miyazaki

It is very tiny and delicat, and those white flowers in between are soo tiny!!!

The Luis Vuitton bag is a gift from Jose Gomez

A spanish bag and suitcase maker, specializing in copying Luis Vuitton.

He has their permission and blessing to do so, and are one of the few or non, outside the company equipped with their product catalogue!!!!

The hat box was one of the first really expensive items i purchased!

I love this statue made by Neil Carter

It's a copy of an unknown artist, she is called "Fisher woman with a basket"!!!

The necklace is made by Ursula Stürmer, purchased at The Kensington Dollhouse Festival some years ago. She has no website, but click on her name and the page from Birmingham Miniatura will give you her contact info.

This beautiful Art Nuveau lamp is made by Cilla, Minst.com

All the lovely items below are from her clever hands!!!

ENJOY!

A sweet and friendly award!!!!

I got this award today from THE PINEAPPLE MAN

I found his blog trough a comment he made on a mini-blog somewhere...

He had a dream of hoping to reach 48 followers!!! 

I looked trough his blog and found that it was an amusing and funny blog with a lot of nice pictures;

well worth a visit!!!!

I could not resist being the 48th, seing he had reached 47...:))

I don't pass on awards!

Sorry

Off to the "Masquerade Ball"!!!

Chanel's dress for the Masquerade Ball was ready friday evening!

She is so happy about it!!!!

She has spent a lot of time in front of the mirror!!

She had to try on the mask with the dress, and she is quite pleased with what she can see!!!

She is not used to wear a dress as big as this, so she had to figure out certain things.....

And put on some make up for when those masks have to come off!!

All day she wore the dress, restless walking from room to room.

Now she can't find her mask!!!

She found it in the bedroom!!

She decides to walk around wearing the mask, she wants to get used to it.... but I think she like the way she looks!!!

She can really feel the butterflies in her stomach now,  she walks restless from room to room!!

She finally rested a bit in her living room, and decided to calm down with a glass of wine!!

"O' no I cannot drink wine she thought...I have forgotten to eat anything!"

She poured herself some coffee and tried to think of anything she had an appetite for..

"Ahh.. one of Christel's delicious cupcakes is what I want now!"

"Ohh...lucky me!!!"

Now she's upstairs again for a last look in the mirror and a spray of her favorite perfume.

She is ready to be picked up !!!

It is a warm and nice evening, the ball is going to be so much fun!!!

I think she is hoping Philippe is hiding behind one of the mask's tonight...

ENJOY

Larissa's little masterpiece!!!!

Seeing this incredible beautiful coffee pot in Juliannas blog I knew I had to have one like it!!!
It is made by the very talented Larissa from the blog Lil´la! Please visit both blogs for a lot of wonderful minis!!!
The writing desk is a kit : Miss lydia Pickett's Cottage Collection, purchased from Crazy4minis

Chanel is invited to a masquerade ball and is very exited, she has purchased the mask and ordered a new dress! The little dog belongs to a customer who is on vacation!

ENJOY!

My work space!

The desk is made by a kitchen work top. I have my big Mac for photoshop and photos, a real big work Mac, and my little sweetheart the "Macbook" is for writhing and browsing the net. The shelf at the end of the desk is great for storing a diversity of small items! The chair looks lovely, but it needs a pillow or a replacement!

Behind the Mac is my not so trustful Canon printer/scanner....it comes up with an error message all the time, but I have learned how to fix it!!!! A self-made message-board filled with pictures of my children in various ages!

The french house in all it's unfinished beauty!!!

It is placed upon some drawers on wheels from Ikea, looks kind of unsteady, but it not!

Works fine for being able to turn it around....when the fronts are finished I need to come up with another idea of course!!

Behind the Ikea chair an ikea shelf filled with 5% of my beloved books and more photos. 

There are no pictures on the walls yet. I need to come up with an idea how to hang them from the skirting of the ceiling!!

Victoria's house needs to be moved into... everything still in boxes!

The tall shelf is filled with interior books and interior magazines!

I have moved 3 times the last year and each time I throw some of them away.. it hurts my heart, but they weigh  SO much!!!

So, this is my sanctuary and my studio, Hopefully I will be inspired both from the room, the nature and all of you great talented blog-friends out there :D

Enjoy!

My cosy corner!

I am kind of exhausted after carrying all my belongings down stairs up stairs....Sunday was the big "moving day" and I had rented a big car, luckily it was big enough for everything. It takes one hour from the flat to the new home, and after unloading everything ( me and my man) we had to drive the car back down again.. one hour down and then back home!! My back, my muscles, everything is acing....I am to old for this!!! On Monday  I drove back and did the washing of the flat... not that it was so dirty, but i wanted to do it properly... took me all day!! So today I have carried some more, and placing a lot of  stuff......I decided to change the bed to fit in better with the furniture. The pictures are not up yet..but still, looks kind of cosy like this too.... quite different from the french house!!!

KITCHEN UPDATE!

Nothing much new to the kitchen except the bench and sink. Also added a curtain!

Kivas wonderful fruit, veggies and fish pie, Christels delicious cupcakes and lovely glasses from Gerd Felka. The rest: se earlier kitchen posts.

ENJOY:D

THANK YOU!

I want to thank all of you for  leaving such nice and encouraging comment's on my post's and for being out there! I appreciate each and every one of you!!!

Have a wonderful weekend :D

Lots of hugs and kisses!!

I FINALLY MADE SOMETHING MYSELF!!!

The kit of lavender was purchased in 2007 at the Miniatura in Birmingham. It was my first fair and I was overwhelmed to finally have access to so much miniatures. We had just one day, and in just one day I also had to find the best exhibitors and the nicest minis to photograph for my newly started miniature magazine: "Et Dukkehjem". I was very modest and had to fight my way in between all those eager english women standing like a firm barrier in front of the vendor!!! But I made it and I was quite pleased with the result.

Anyway, I had some time in between photographing and managed to by some stuff. This kit is from a vendor by the name; "The Miniature Garden Centre".

I don't know if I am completely happy with the result, I feel they are not real enough?

I have also played around with the Laduree label in photoshop, and this is my first attempt to print on fabric.

Visiting Christel some time before Christmas, I was lucky enough to be part of a miniature club meeting

and I made my first attempt to make one of those pitchers that you all can make so well. My first is the one at the left! The second one was a lot better, and I also made a pink one for Victoria:)

The stands were made by coincidence, just playing around!

It is the second time I rip this chair apart and change the fabric, I think this gives it a more french and right look?

Quite happy with the pillows too!!