French kitchen??

I am of course not done with the kitchen. It´s kind of too clean, it need to be more shabby!!
I made the niche around the window, but I have to make it look like it´s belong to the original wall, and I don´t have a sink that fits the space. Okay...I need to make one... or  buy???? I don´t know yet, but it will probably take some time to decide, and get it done!
So enjoy what I have done so far;
The cute wall cabinet is made by Evelyne Fontaine at; /http://lescarnetsdelatelierblondie.blogspot.com/

I have made the picture extra big so the wonderful food from KIVA are more visible. She made the nectarines, the fish pai, tomatoes and the mushrooms!!! The food looks just great!

I´v got the nice wine bottle from Hanneke from Holland, she also sent with them a cute wine opener!
The rolling pin and the items hanging by the stove are purchased at  the Italian fair; http://www.miniaturitalia.it/.

Some of the food items on the shelf are purchased at the same italian fair, the jars are from Country Treasures at; The Kensington Dollhouse fair

Notice the cute mouse on the toaster made by David Ward!
But does the kitchen look French at all? I know, I should have used tiles...but I made it several years ago now...and I did not know so much back then. But it´s a nice floor in it self!

Le salon!!

I think I am close to being finish with this room! There is of course the "small" matter of hanging up the curtains, and a small writing desk is going were the chair with the pillow stands. It just need to be located and purchased!!!

Trying to improve the french look!

At the moment I am working with the kitchen, or trying to!!
There are always distractions, such as ideas for the other rooms! Not big changes, but small things witch hopefully makes the house look more authentic. I will post more pictures from this work soon =)

More french details!

Books are popular to make these days, and I am working on my version of them.

These old looking books are typically french, and I have seen a lot of pictures with
books like this. I have only made these three books so far...it´s a rather time consuming thing to do! I am sewing two and two pages together, I then stitch 6 pieces together and then sew those together in the back. Dipping them in tea, gives them the old look. After giving them a good soak, gently squeeze the rest of the tea out of it. Place it in a tweezer, use the hairdryer to dry it, this will make the paper thicker. This wont dry it completely, it will dry overnight. Then it´s ready for placing the little label at the back of the miniature antique french book!

The lovely candlestick is made by Cilla ( Minst.com)

Those tiny and cute reading glasses with the leather box is made by a swedish lady ; Mette Möller (memdolls, no website, but e-mail Cilla about her!)

The figurine was purchased in Antibes, and the magnifying glass...I don´t remember!

This is a new book cabinet I assembled this summer ( I might rip of the doors though) It is going to be filled with books of course, hopefully a lot of the "antique" books! But like Sabihas wine cellar....it´s going to take some time, hopefully not too many years! The bookcabinet is going into the living room, the picture is taken in the small hallway at the back of the dining room.

The wonderful bird is made by Cilla at Minst.com

Placed on the open book at the little table is the lovely gift from Linda. She gave me a packet of her wonderful tiny "lettres d´amour!

This picture has ben my source of inspiration:

Bathroom finished!

This bathroom have been finished for a while now, it was actually one of the first room i did! The only thing that missed, was those tiny details that make it look right.  So this evening I´v  made the towel hanger beside the sink... and the towel with the small embroider monogram. I purchased a bunch of them at a marked last year in Antibes. I ´v  also made the toilet paper holder to match the towel holder....and the hanger(?) for the shower curtain. I ´v  made the perfume bottles on the sink, the box with towels on the floor, the floor mat, the small shelf above the bathtub. Two of the perfume bottles, I did. The pink, sweet tray is from Victoria Fasken ( she has no home page, but just google her) The beautiful pink carafe     was a gift from a dear friend; Tove ( she used to have a dollhouse shop in Bergen, and thats where I purchased the lamp) Enjoy the bath!!

The Sewing room!

Finally I found the inspiration I´v been looking for; Lea´s book of course! The room vas dull and hard to decorate, much to do with the bedroom wallpaper! It´s not easy to find something to match it. I like it when two room´s don´t collide in style or color. Originally I wanted the small fireplace in the bedroom, but came up with that idea too late!! So when looking through the book for the 100 time...ah ha...that´s what I´ll do; make new walls on cardboard, and the fireplace of course! It was so easy and fun to do. But I have only made the wall you see in the picture. Now I have to do the rest of the room...not so fun, but I must!!! The poor french woman has no hair

(I am going to make her a wig, eventually!) and no clothes, except what she´s wearing. No wonder she´s sewing!!

I would like you to give me an idea of a french name that suites her. The wig will be dark, maybe long hair..... and the time period is now! Just look at her washer!!

Some improved pictures of the utility/laundry room.

Utility room in the french house.

The utility room in the house is almost ready. It needs a bit more of character, some utility´s..... maybe?

I made the shelf with the metal hook´s. I also made the little hanger. I bought the dust broom at a fair... not sure where...

The fantastic bottles on top of the washer and the bucket was bought at the Kensington dollhouse festival(www.dollshousefestival.com) from Country Treasures.

(Kensington dollhouse festival has a christmas fair the 22 of November, and I am visiting!!!!!)

I also bought the wonderful laundry basket there, from lovely Zara Thomson Ribeaud. (www.zarathomsonribeaud.com)

Notice that one of the pictures of the shelf has different "utility´s"...

looks a lot better with the cute boxes from Rosanna.. dont you think?

And I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures...I will be back with something better !!!!

The Dollmaker!

For those of you who wondering who made the doll!

Look into the website of Almudena Gonzalez.

http://perso.wanadoo.es/e/angelalmu/

You can buy dolls and a lot of nice stuff from her!

More details from the bedroom, after sunrise!

Here are some more and better pictures for you to enjoy!

Rosanna made me a tea cosy!!!!

Talented, sweet Rosanna made me this lovely tea cosy!! And as a surprise the sweet "armitié" pillow, along with two boxes and a macaroon! Thank you Rosanna :D

The lady of the french house have had a refreshing morning shower, and wants to enjoy breakfast in her cosy bedroom. She likes to sit there, on the top floor, watch the sunrise and enjoy a nice cup of warm coffee!!!

Gardening tools!

Hello everybody!

Back home from a great trip to the US. Stayed a while with Nancy in Minneapolis (She´s a good friend who also helped me editing my english translation of Et Dukkehjem) She lives in a cosy neighborhood nearby the airport ( and Mall of Amerika!!!)

One day we went shopping in her neighborhood and found a wonderful shop with all kind of flowers and garden accessories. I also found these sweet rusty miniature garden tools, watering can and the lovely bench. The shop is named "Twiggs" owned by a lovely lady by the name Beth Patrin ( 612-823-TWIG). And of course, I had to pay a visit to "Little Enchantments". As far as I know it´s the only miniature shop in MN. I only bought some frames,"Museum gel", a bottle of Perrier, spring onions and Nacy bought me the cellery, (because I like it so much in real life!) Thank you Nancy!

More pictures from the trip will be posted after the weekend!

Antibes!

Denne kofferten kjøpte jeg i Antibes, Frankrike i fjor høst. Jeg kjøpte den i en butikk som heter "Pierrot la Lune". Innehaversken av butikken hadde bare fornavnet på damen som hadde laget den, Ingrid. Hun bodde i Biot, utenfor Antibes. Er det noen som kjenner til henne?

Kofferten skal jeg ha i atikvitets/blomsterbutikken i det franske huset!

I bought this trunk in Antibes last fall. The shop is called "Pierrot La Lune". The shopkeeper only new the makers first name; Ingrid, and she was living in Biot outside Antibes. Does anyone have any knowledge about her?

The trunk is going into the antique/flowershop in the french house!

Vanity table for the french house

Here is my vanity table for the dressing room in my french house. Yesterday I was really inspired and started doing this. It´s going in the room behind the bedroom. From this room there is going to be a stair down to the living room. 

The chair is made by my youngest daughter Victoria! The table has a piece of lace around it,

All of the perfume bottles are made by me, also the pink book at the end of the table. (I´v used some very thin chocolate tinfoil to rap around the book) The wrist watch, hairpin and fan are made by Cilla (minst.com) The Easter chocolate thing on top of the book is made by an italian "company" : Bet Un Mondo in Miniatura  The pink tray is made by Victoria Fasken. The "Camé" and it´s box are made by the sweedish; Mette Möller, "Memdolls"( I think she only sells at fairs, and she was at the Stavanger fair) I bought the lamp at a british fair. The neckless and the mask are also from different fairs. I got the wallpaper from a store in Bergen, it´s real size!

Butikken

Her må det gjøres masse !

This shop need a lot of work and details!

Stuen

Dette er det rommet som er nesten slik det ferdige resultatet blir. 

This a  room that looks almost as I want it to do!

Spisestuen

Masse detaljer mangler og bordet er altfor "nytt".

Still missing a lot of details and the table is looking too "new".

Sy rommet

Her er nesten ingen ting ferdig!

The sewingroom,  but it´s far from finished!

Soverommet

En nærmere kikk på detaljene i soverommet.

A closer look at the bedroom details.

Endelig noen nye bilder!

I anledning et intervju i lokalavisen her om dukkehushobbyen min måtte jeg forte meg å møblere det enda uferdige franske huset.....

Det er ikke sikkert det blir helt slik når det er ferdig men dette er omtrent slik jeg vil ha det.

Har enda masse bilder og ting til huset men det kommer etterhvert!

I was giving an interview to the local newspaper about my dollhouse hobby and had to quickly furnish the still not finished french house....

It is probably not going to be quite like this when it´s finished, but this is almost like I want it to look.

There is still a lot of pictures and small items to put in it, but they will be there later!