Teapots from Onlineshow

Last month the miniature Online show took place and I took a fancy to these teapots. These are from an estate sale, one by Christopher Whitford, one "English teapot"( I thoght they might be by Rachel Munday, but am not quite sure) :

                                           And here they are in my tearoom :

The aftermath of the online miniature show

Glory be! My loot starts turning up in earnest now, so lots of pics....
I received some whimsical teapots and a mushroom with a hangover , made by Loredana Tonetti ( Lory's little things)

                                                   A romantic teapot with roses:

This one has found room in my tearoom ( an online workshop by Cynthia Howe)

                                  And these two teapots were sooooo funny, I couldn't resist:

                                 ( yes, they both do have lift-off covers, as has the rose teapot)



                                  I also saw a nice mushroom with a hangover and in very bad humour:

                             Which , of course , was delegated to the mouse house :-) Poor meeces....

                                                                         OK , next !

I also received the flowers I had bought from Pim Sukkerd in Bangkok, Thailand ( sorry, no website, I have nearly begged her to make one or to make her preence more known by blog, whatever. She can be found on Facebook, though). My, that gal makes wonderful flowers!


                                                       First : this vase of mixed flowers

                                going to live in a separate posh roombox ( yes , I am a posh lady....)

                                                     Lilies, for now in the selfsame roombox

                                  Roses.... They have such a wonderful warm pink/ orange color !
                               So decided to  put them on the dining table in the Kendrew House

                                                              But I ran into a bit of trouble here:

When I first put the roses onto the table I discovered that the silver was very dirty and needed to be cleaned and the wonderful dinnerware ( Stokesay , no less, giggle) , so I sighed, cleaned the table off  and cleaned all little thingies on it.

                  I love that table, btw, it was made by the late Allan McKirdy. He was a lovely man.

                                                                  I also bought some irises:

They were in a basket, so I thought I had better put them into Bluebell cottage, my adorable little cottage

                                                                     OK, next :

I had also fallen for some of Ludwina's hand-knotted carpets! Never having seen them "in person" , but having heard how wonderful they were, I nosed around at her "table"at the on-line show. One of the great things is, you have the dolls house sitting next to you while choosing a carpet, so I looked with my ruler and decided which color I wanted .

                                                     Yesterday they also arrived...

             And with a cleaned-up dinner table I could finally lay this wonderful carpet in the dining room !
                In deference to Ludwina's artwork, I put aside some chairs for one of the pictures:

                                                And here is the setting as it looks now.
                                   The rug looks somewhat blue in the pic, but in person is it darker.

The second rug , the small one, went into the young ladys'bedroom ( the only bedroom I have got, except for those of my housemaid, all others must sleep in the gutter, I am afraid)

Onthe right hand side you see a youthful sin of mine, a carpet I stitched eaons ago. It will be replaced, eventually, by something stitched on gauze, but I have a  bucket list of stitching to do, so that won't be soon, I am afraid :-)

                                                  The third was one of the little kitty mats

That went into the cat lady's house, of course !

And I also received, earlier this week, lovely sets of correspondence etc from Montserrat Folch ( Spain)

I snagged these pics from her website, as it was hard for me to photograph them . At least my dolls are going to have some social life now, I hope .

Soooooooo you can see, I had a LOT of fun at the on line show and I want to thank Shelly Norris for all the work she has done !
It is so nice to see work by people that either you did not know of, or that you could not buy at the web otherwise, or sometimes, just to dive in and look what you find :-) And happily looking / browsing for a morning behind your coffee ( I love minishows, but always need more coffee than I have time for and my feet , even in sneakers , will kill me) has definitely its points.

More dolls !

After my last post a conspiracy was formed against this little helpless victim and I received a   mail from Louisa in The Hague who wanted to downsize a bit and asked whether I could give some of her dolls a good home ?

The dolls are lovely ! Today I retrieved the package from the post office and here they are :

This little doll is by Jane Davies. She looks a bit as if she wants a beach or garden to play, which I, unfortunatley , cannot provide right now. But since I have got three roomboxes ( by Dolls House Emporium) lying around, I might be able to do something about that, given some time).
In the meantime, she will be living in the nursery ( grrr, that flash won't get off!!!!).

This set of dolls was made by Jill Bennet . They are sweet , aren't they???

I sent them out shopping.

The girl does the real shopping while he is out to do something naughty I am afraid.Boys will be boys.

And , last but not least, here is another niece, come up to the teashop in town with auntie !
By Marie-France Beglan again, with a beautifully smocked dress.She mopes a bit, though, methinks.

The tearoom after my raiding Soest!

After my acquisitions of the Soest fair have been sorted and smeared with moveable glue to anchor them, I placed them into the tearoom.

Ummmm, see that black mamba on one of the chairs ??? !!!!!!

I clearly need another cake stand, but that will come later, we hope!!

The Soest fair, Germany

Yesterday I went to Soest . It was a bit rainy on the way there, but back it was mostly dry, so I could travel fast, and believe me, I did :-)

I met up with Winnie . We made pics of

each other while photographing each other:-)

Winnie even hadmade a second small tatted cloth for my teraoom, so that the other

table has got one ,too! Isn't is wonderful?

Thank you so much, Winnie!

post came in last week

And brought me this beautiful small tatted cloth , made by my clever friend Winnie . It was so small it fitted easily on one of the Bespac teateables in my posh tearoom.

Isn't it great?

finally: tearoom finished

Here it is, finally. The tearoom I made from a kit by Cynthia Howe . The kit was very well done , quiet complete, well thought out and with great, illustrated and well-written instructions - and if there is any unsuspected problem, Cynthia just answers you by email right away.

All fretwork was laser-cut. The furniture ( Bespaq) was also included in the kit. The ceiling was wired, so that the only thing one had to do was be carfeul with the wiring. Well, it was done quite well, too, as the wiring survived the travel over the Atlantic, my handling and the handling by the guy who made a frame for the whole box.

There is a background , lit by fluorette lights over the windows on the outside of the inner box.

The dolls I put in are , from left to right:

a doll dressed by me from a kit by Gisele Sullivan

a doll made and dressed by Debbie Dixon-Paver

and a doll made by Diane Pietrocola.

(Sorry about the flashlights!!! )

Now we need some teapots and cups and cakeplates, and , of course, cakes and sandwiches!