My Treasures from the KDF - 2

I love turqouise as colour for the kitchen. So these potteries from  ELISABETH CAUSERET were a "must have". Also Elisabeth has no website, but you can get some of her work via Swan House Miniatures.And I added her label and here is her mail adress.
Have a wonderful day

My Treasures from the KDF - 1

This little guy is soooo cute. I couldn't go without him.
He is from TEENY WEENY TEDDIES. Unfortunately Dave Pennant has no blog or website.
Have a wonderful day

Back from London

Home again!
After nearly 2 weeks in grey, windy and rainy weather in London, we arrived on Monday to be welcomed by the finest summer evening in Berlin.
The KDF went very well for me not least because of Carol from True2Scale and her husband.

We shared a table and had a great time together. I love her tiny houses!
On my right side was Brian Underhay with his beautiful furnitures. When I make my Viennese Coffeehouse, I must have some of his chairs! Unfortunately he has no website, but you can see some of them on this site.
I hope I'll have enough time in the next days to make pictures if the minis I bought. Really unexpected I came home with a little boy.....

Janice - where have you been???

Have a wonderful day

Mail Disaster

That's a disaster! Since 3 weeks I don't get mails to my miniatures account. If you want to contact me - please use the comments. Thank you  so much.
It's working again! Please - everybody, who send me a mail in the last weeks - don't wonder why I haven't answered it. They were all deleted, before I could read them, because a filter havocked them all.
It would be nice, if you would send them again.
Have a wonderful day

Compartment Milk & Cheese

 

This will be my new compartment for Milk & Cheese at the KDF.
Have a wonderful day

More Minerals

 

I finished the compartment for my Minerals for the KDF in London. Therefore I built these illuminated shelves. 

 

I forgot to add a cent (haha - not for the first time...), but in one of the pictures, you can see my hand. So you have a benchmark for the size.

Have a wonderful day

Herb Window

 

Today I finally added the herbs to the window. I picked these plants last year at the Lago Maggiore, dried and painted them, so they can stay colourful for a longer time. You can see more of the herbs here.
Have a wonderful day

Tin Signs for London

 

This is my Compartment with the "Tin Signs" for London. I made more than 100 different designs. And the house numbers and street sign can be made personalised.
Have a wonderful day

Snail Lamp

And that's one of my snail lamps. I found the shell on a small island of the Baltic Sea. It's called Usedom. These shells are extremly translucent and therefore perfect for lamps. It's not the final place for it, but I'll need much more time to build the cupboard for the left side of the room. This will contain more minerals and lamps, because the witch is making her living by selling potions, herbs and minerals.
Have a wonderful day

Amethyst Druse

Here is the promised picture of the amethyst druse (geode). I hope the squirrel is careful with the doubleflamed oil lamp and won't burn ots tail. They are always frolicing through the shelves and I can't stop them.
Have a wonderful day

The Mineral Corner

The last weeks,  I spent the few hours of spare time with the search for micro minerals and I found a lot of beautiful specimens. Some of them are now standing in the Mineral Corner of my Nice Witches room. 

On the next picture you can see the size. I put an Euro Cent in front of the shelve.

On the right side, the witch is brewing love potions. Unfortunately you can't see, the drop, that trickles from the heart into the flask.
Back to the minerals..... I couldn't stop buying these beauties, so I'll have a lot of them for sale in London. Witches and wizzards would love them in their scenes, I'm sure - or they would be great for a mineralogist or a room in a museum of natural history. My friend Rita bought some of them for her Wellness Hotel..... Would you like to have a preview of some of them?
Tomorrow I show you the amethyst druse I made with real minerals.
Have a wonderful day

Mineral Lamps

Since weeks I'm looking for mineralsfor making lamps. I'll have a lot of them in London this year.
Unfortunately it's to dark to show a cent in the picture. but the sizes of these lamps are 6mm-2cm. I hope, you like it.
Have a wonderful day

Where are the days....

...when I had time for making pictures and posting?
But hopefully, they will come again. In the meantime I show you the article about my miniatures from the "1zu12" magazine. I was so happy to see them in our best german miniature magazine.

Article by courtesy of Barbara Leuchtenberger 1zu12 Magagzin

Today is my birthday and I'll take a little time off - but not for miniatures. We'll go to the movies. After being awake for the Oscar Nomination (till 6 o'clock in the morning MET), my husband persuaded me to see Hugo Cabret. I loved "The Artist" when we saw it 3 weeks ago. After leaving the cinema I only thought "AGAIN"!!! What a wonderful mowie.
Have a wonderful day

Perfumery Cabinet 1

As soon as I thought I'd would have plenty of time for miniatures, real life had some other ideas....
I spent the last days with new interior designs in full scale.  Never start to renovate a small corner ...... after that is done, everything else looks shabby and is also in need of new paint / wallpaper / shelves.......
Because of this, I show you my perfumery cabinet from my half scale Interior Accessoire Shop.
Apart from home accessoires, there are also perfumery goods. It's nearly finished, but I still have to decide, what colour the wooden armchair on the left should be. But therefore, I've to get ready with everything else.

Have a wonderful sunday

Link of the Day

Lara has a great tutorial for lavender on her blog .... and a lot of beautiful miniatures.

Picture by courtesy of Lara

Witch Chests

Yippiiiiieh, the working space for my witch is ready - at least the chests. Now I can make all the devices she needs to make love potions. She earns her money with herbs and potions. Love potions are the offer of the month...

Have a wonderful sunday

Chests for the Nice Witch

I love chests with a lot of drawers - and because the Nice Witch is my alter ego, she has to have a lot of them. She is also working with foreign herbs, that's why she got 2 chinese apothecary chests and 1 with alchemical symbols. My witch is living in modern time, therefore she can have everything she loves.
Have a wonderful weekend

Deli - new light

No sooner that I wanted to fill my blog with new miniatures, I caught a bronchitis and confined me to bed... But something good came from it. Since 2 years I wanted to have another light in my deli. And when I felt a little bit stonger I changed all the old bulbs into LED.
Because I have to catch up on my "real life" work, I can't show you much more in the moment. But this will not last for long! I have hopes for the weekend.
Have a wonderful day

Fossilized Snails

 

The last days I was busy making the stands for the fossiles I found before Christmas at my favorite store for minerals. I spend many hours looking for tiny ones, that can be used in half scale. It isn't as easy as one would think. They really have to look like the big ones.... not only like chips from them. The owner of the shop brought me all her "secret" boxes and I could rummage around. What a great time I had! A lot of the minerals I'll have for sale at the KDF - many of them transformed into lamps. I'm waiting for the LED in the Moment and then I'll have a lot of work to solder the tiny beasts (1mm diameter...).
As usually I forgot to put a Cent into the pictures. The fossiles with the brackets are 2,5-4 cm high.
Have a wonderful Sunday

Door for the Witch

The door isn't ready yet, but now I have other work to do. It was such a nice time at the end of the year, when I had plenty of time for my miniatures.
Have a wonderful day