Haberdashery items

Hi everyone!

I've managed to move to Arizona, yay! I could pack only a few craft tools, so I think I'll have to go on a trip to Michael's (as soon as I find a car that I can use).

I wanted to have a giveaway once reaching 100 followers; well, I've got 104 up to now, so it definitely is time to thank each and every one of you for reading my blog (it's amazing to see that there are people out there interested in what I do!), and for leaving such nice comments every time.

Due to the fact that I was moving to the States I haven't been able to craft any miniature for my giveaway. But please stay tuned as I'll write a post for my give away pretty soon :)

In the meantime I thought you might enjoy seeing these things I made for the haberdashery. I have been wanting to make them for ages, but I couldn't find the right cardboard...too thin, too thick, or not the right color. Then one day I ordered a book from Amazon, and it came in exactly the kind of cardboard I was looking for!!!!! But I didn't realize it straight away. As a matter of fact I threw away in the paper recycling bin this Amazon box; and after a few days, while I was still thinking how to solve the cardboard problem, I remembered about that wrapping....and went digging in the recycling bin ;)

End of a fairy tale (well, kind of!).

Lucia xxx

A very quick note

Just a very quick note to let you all know that I haven't disappeared :)

I'm just very busy at the moment, that's all. I've completely packed my house in Oxfordshire, I'm back home in Italy and I'm expected to move to the USA in this weekend. Sol actually I need to pack for my next destination (Arizona) where I'll be living for about 5 months, before I'll move again. Bleah, I'm starting to hate all this packing/unpacking!

In between all this chaos I still manage to read your blogs, though I haven't got time to leave many comments. Let alone playing with miniatures.

Well, hopefully I'll be able to post some miniature related pics very soon; in the meantime enjoy this pic I took in France last year.

Lucia

A hat! Just one, but what a hat :)

Hello, hello!

It has been a very busy week for me, 7 exams done, hopefully went all right...so I didn't have much time to dedicate to miniatures. Today has been my first day of freedom from my studies, and I've had to start packing all my belongings, since I'll move out on Wednesday. Anyways I've squeezed in some time and I made a few minis, which I'll show you another time, as I haven't taken pics yet. I thought though you might enjoy seeing what I made out of those cold porcelain roses I showed you a few posts ago :)

Now off to bed, tomorrow I'm leaving early to go and visit Bath! (YES, I should be focusing on packing the house, really....but I think it's worth it to visit England a bit, before I leave it....)!

Have a good night!

Lucia

Birthday self-presents!!!!!

It's my birthday on Tuesday, and so I bought myself a few miniatures! I always do it. Every year I indulge with myself and buy a few things for my birthday ;)

Here you can see some yummy pastries from Paris Miniatures. Emma has spoiled me this time, she has even included the 'vanilla' flavored St. Honoré in my order for free! Thank you :)

And of course I couldn't ignore Rosanna's post (she was selling some of her handmade miniatures left over from Simp)....I had to have one of her magnificent embroidered tea cozies!

Here's a pic of all my new miniatures together!

I just wish my birthday was more than once a year...so I would have more excuses to buy myself miniatures!!!!!!

Lucia

Hats!

My millinery shop is slowly coming along, I've made almost enough hats to go in the shop...there's still some empty spaces on the shelves, as you can see from the pictures. And I'm planning to have about 2 or 3 hats on a counter as well. Plus I was thinking about having some up front on a display in order to simulate front shop windows. One thing is for sure, I'm short in hat stands, I need to buy some more. Eventually I'll have to paint them all...but I just wanted to have some fun and try all my hats on the shelves :)

Sorry for the not-so-good pics, but the weather has been cloudy and this is the best I could do with such inclement light!

Lucia

Cold porcelain and hats

Good afternoon everyone! Today I'm showing you a couple more hats I've made, inspired by the Royal Ascot events that have been going on in the past few days! As you can probably imagine, I've looked at so many pictures of the ladies at Ascot...I wish I could go there one day, just for the fun of looking at all those beautiful hats, and take loads of pics as inspirations!

Also, yesterday I've made my very first cold porcelain! I must admit that I was cooking glue and cornstarch at lunch time, so my housemates saw it...and they were pretty amused by it. I don't think they ever thought that someone could cook glue :) I've also posted a pic of my very first roses, made out of cold porcelain of course! I'm pretty pleased with my results of both my first cold porcelain and my first roses!!!!!

Enjoy,

Lucia

Bunka reels

This is what I've been up to in the last week! I made tons of little bunka reels. I had to try all the colors I own...I just couldn't help it. Besides, an haberdasher must have all sorts of colors, otherwise his customers will be very disappointed ;)

I hope you'll enjoy my new miniatures!

Have a very good evening,

Lucia

Pretty vases

These vases have traveled all the way from Tasmania to England! As you can see they've got here in perfect conditions :) Margaret Crosswell is the artisan who made them, I'm sure you know the talented Aussie miniaturist! And, oh my, aren't those tiny roses the cutest you've ever seen?! I feel inspired, I shall make a hat which recalls these vases.

A big thank you to Linda Carswell as well, without whom I wouldn't be the proud owner of such beauties.

Mini hugs, Lucia

Silk ribbon reels

Yesterday has seen me in the process of making tons of tiny reels of silk ribbon....You know, my haberdasher will need to be perfectly supplied with all the possible trims that a woman could want! Think about all those ladies who'll go shopping in the haberdashery, looking for something absolutely gorgeous to put on their dresses, parasols, hats, bags....

I hope you'll like them ;)

Millinery

Remember all those silk ribbons I bought at Kensington?! Well, I thought I'd put them in good use. I have been having these black with pink polka dots feathers for a year now, and I couldn't come up with nothing interesting, really, because I was missing the perfect ribbon....But now....all those gorgeous feathers have found a 'home'!!!!!!

While these delicate white and grey feathers come straight from the canal nearby :) I went for a walk around the canal last Saturday, and I HAD to pick up from the pathway these beautiful little things...And I think they complete this green hat nicely!

Hugs, Lucia