After the fair I worked on inserting Georgia Marfels's minitures into the class... ? Nancy Cronin's snooty witch ; a healthy school lunch awaiting ! A birdie on the book...... Over the fireplace the class lamp looks around ; on the fireplace some mandrakes and evil worms . There is also a book with a book worm ..read more

Yesterday I went to the Rheda fair (Germany) ; drove there and back, total 600 kms round drive. Is a bit of  a distance to cover for this ole'gel, esp when you do a fair in between ?. And it was quite warm in Rheda, as well. Still, I do love the fair and the venue . The fair contains some 200 vendors , both artisans and import/DIY sellers. I hit Georgia Marfels' stand, of course :                                   some grisly ( silicon) molds , to be used for bottles etc         ..read more

Long way to go yet !!!! The books and scroll I bought from "The Miniature Scene of York ", who have excellent service, btw. The rat is by Georgia Marfels ( of course) , who also made pesky flies and wasps, caught in the spiderwebs. She also made some other books, will photograph them shortly ..read more

In December/Jan I had started working on a witches' class . I had to leave the project for some weeks, however ,as I had boldly decided I needed new flooring in my bedrooms - my craftroom is one of the two ( meant : movers in , all stuff out, new flooring in, movers in, all stuff in again, finding stuff back? ). But now I have started to put it together. Here was where I had got to when I had to take a break: The basic instructions came from an old issue of DHMS (back from 2012) , a project called "" A Witches'  Hovel, by Kastle Kelm Miniatures, The fireplace is resin and I bought i ..read more

During last months I actually did make some minis. This witch was made by me in August from a kit by Nancy Cronin , who makes the best witches and crabby old ladies that I know of . As you can see , she has a mini-me with her ? . The kit was excellent with clear descriptions, was quite well prepared, as well. Moonyeen Möller did a lot of work on it . It was about the first mini I had made since a long time and I do owe Nancy and Moonyeen for getting me out and back on track.  The other thing I made was (in October) a bunch of 1/24 narcissi from a kit by Georgina Steed (The Miniature ..read more

Long time, well, very long time no see. Had some health issues, but now have decided to take early retirement. Lots better! Still doing real miniwork wasn't that easy; everything I tried turned out a disaster. Then , during my holidays I read an article in an old DH magazine about making a bunka rug. Thunk : I can do that ! So went to the website of  Little Trimmings (UK) , then to this page ( scroll down ) and ordered some kits. Tadaaah, here is the first result : Not exactly your Great Master work, but it looks nice enough! It is 16.5 x 10.5 cm. A nice online tutorial can be ..read more

A small heatwave in the Netherlands kept me mostly in last days.... The upside of it was that the only thing I can sensibly do on these days is sitting in front of the fan, reading or stitching ( or watching telly :-)  ) . Well, I cannot show you any stitching yet, as I have hardly started ( small sampler from a kit by Nicola Mascall). But I can show you what my kitties do in front of the fan.....!                                                       ..read more

OK , here I am again... After the loss of Jojo and Fluffy, not only was I quite sad , but little Tiffany was, too. Although she is quite shy, she has always been a very sociable cat . So I decided to import two babybrothers. It took about a wekk of gentle introduction :-), step by step , but we did succeed and the whole family is having the time of their lives. Three kitties playing around, tearing through the house, sometimes washing each other ( esp Tiffany loves doing that).                                 &nbs ..read more

Emma Waddell asked  on one of the FB groups members of the group to post photos of their kitchens there. Which led me to view my Kendrew House first. I had to put in some recently acquired porceleain, anyway. While photographing, though, I saw not only layers of dust (still in situ I am afraid , grin), but also several appliances etc that had fallen on the floor or such , so some  reorganisation was sorely needed. So I did that . What with taking pics etc took quite  a lot of time, actually. Anyay, I do have updated pics of the three kitchens now: one scullery, one kitche ..read more

That took a long time. But I finally finished the chest from a kit by Arjen Spinhoven today . It's not perfect , mind you , but OK..... as best as I can do.                                  Maybe do some more mini-ing, well I do hope so ..read more