Mum's Birthday

Maybe a card and a present in one?

Party in the Garden

The sun is out; the sky contains metres upon metres of blue silk and it's time to party!!  No calories, no taste, but with a dash of imagination .......Water for Elephants

The Kitchen

Hello!  Sorry for the delay and I have no excuses, so please imagine my head hung in shame.  I have 3, yes 3, new dioramas to add and the first one is The Kitchen:

 Look at the fantastic 70's wallpaper!  The tiles are glass and hand picked by yours truly.  The salad and filled croissant are guaranteed to stay as fresh as polymer clay can stay fresh!

Anyway, enjoy and let me know what you think!

The Cafe

Hmm, well the vision in my head was slightly different, but that isn't unusual.  I wanted to put a window around the front of the box so you could look inside, however, as you can see it didn't happen; I left it open and extended the floor instead.

Sew 4 Me

Hello!  Apologies for the delay etc, but I have two dioramas to add today!!

This one has taken me a few days as I decided to add some glass tiles for the window so that  involved cutting the base of the box, but the result is good.  The treadle, sewing box (that is perched on the shelf )and the tailor's dummy all hail from ebay's doll's house accessories; the bales of material and odd bits of wool were donated by Sandie and anything else you can see was from my treasury of possibly useful acquisitions!  Some cigar boxes have a sheet of veneer inside them and that is really good for making floors.  Will be adding this one to Etsy later to join the others.

The Queen's Weekend Pad

 Saturday pulled us out of the house and we trundled  towards Alexander Gardens.  The weather was brilliant with a large amount of sunshine and a cool breeze welcoming us to the outside world. Decided to take a couple of photos for backdrops and thought it would be rude not to include HRH's weekend pad considering she was in residence, possibly watching the Saturday afternoon film or just ironing a few bits to take back to London with her, who knows?

So, out of that came this, enjoy .......

A Walk in the Park

The weekend found me sitting at the dining table that appears to have been attacked from all sides by various art and craft bits playing with model railway figures; I know, but it kept me quiet for a while.  Monday saw the sun and a blue sky so the dogs and I went down to the river with camera tucked into pocket.  Came back and put this together:

It isn't one of my best efforts but it isn't bad.  Looks better without the leather chair in the background of course.  Trace suggested an ice cream van but decided to `make do and mend' as my old Aunt Deborah Windlesham-Bottom used to say and added a memorial to fallen chess pieces instead.  One thing I keep promising myself is to decorate the outside of the box first, but it hasn't happened yet ......