Welcome!

(the result of an evening turning and twisting metal tread and soldering it)

I have new followers!

Dark Squirrel Victoria

Ana

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Linda and second blog

Thomas Scales

Marie

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Nyork

Natalia

Lataina (please let me know if you have a blog!)

A warm welcome to you all and I hope you will enjoy my blog!

Marit

Holiday

The last weeks I got myself through my working hours dreaming about miniature making at a table next to a woodburner, cup of tea, glancing outside every now and then, seeing nothing else than coloured leaves and birds... and most important: NOTHING ELSE TO DO! Well, we just came back from that autumn holiday, and we had such wonderful weather, that I almost did no miniature working! :-)
But this is what I did:

I sewed a bag and sawed a little bench.

I haven't glued the bench yet, still deciding if I will use it to make more.

And now back to work again, and no holidayplans to dream about...

Marit

Sidetables & silverware

The beachhouse will get a kitchen with a work top of soapstone, which I will make from a stone myself. I had one piece almost ready, when it broke in two. So I decided to make two sidetables with it.

It's not well visible on the picture that the tops are made of stone. In real they look a bit like marble. I made them the right thickness for a kitchencounter, so they are a bit too thick, but it doesn't bother me. The dark one has little wheels beneath it. Work in progress:

The silver I've put on them are my oldest (candlesticks) as well as my newest boughts (bowl and sauce-thingie). Aren't they wonderfully detailed?

Hope you'll have a good week next week, mine will be very busy, probably no time for mini-work... :-(

Marit

Welcome new followers!

Beautiful scene to be seen in the cathedral of Chester (UK)

A warm welcome for all my new followers!

Usvis

Aproshkina

Lia e Alma

Csilla

JRB Creations

Sarah

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Ernesto

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Peggy

Berri Jones

Caroline

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Yvonne

M Carmen Casanova

Casita Mini

Gonda's Miniature

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Sans DD

Julia @ Bearcabinminiatures

Marta y Carla

Marillum

Little Miss Kris

I hope you will all like my blog, and leave many nice comments ;-).
I don't seem to be able to find a blog of some of you, while I'm sure that I visited at least one of those blogs. Please let me know if you have one!

Marit

Step by step

Sometimes I think I must be the clumsiest miniaturist. I don't see any of you damaging their wallpaper when you're not working on it, cutting grass-paper 3 times and still too short, trying paint-techniques on the good piece of grass-paper (instead of the remainder after cutting), ... Oh well, I get there, slowly progressing step by step.
The spot on the wallpaper is covered by a bouquet of dried flowers (some real flowers fit the miniature world perfectly). You can see the new windowsills on this photo too.

Next to it is the door with the new hinges. They match the handle well, after I removed the black paint on them.

Two snails found their way on the outside of the conservatory.

I had to make close-ups of them, as one has to take a very good look to spot them on the next picture. I made the second wall around the garden. Now I have to finish the gate, and then paint it. As I said, I cut grass-paper from a model-train-shop to fit the garden, which it does, more or less. But I guess I can fill gaps between wall and paper with plants, like one would have in real life, as the mower can't cut the grass close to the wall. The grass is not glued yet. I need to paint the walls first.

I thought the grass-paper was too yellow, even though I bought the darkest shade. I tried various ways to paint it, and had a very nice result by spraying a solution of watercolour on it. A brush flattens the grass too much.
I end with another picture of the lion-tap. I know I've shown this before, but I like the result much.

Have a nice week,

Marit