Another gift for the Gift Gallery.......

I'm taking my time searching for items to fill the Gift Gallery.   There are so many lovely individual items out there made by some very clever people, it's very hard to be selective.   One of these beautiful little items arrived today.   It came from Janny of art of mini.

As you can see, it's a tiny little sewing kit set in a tiny little sauce boat. There are pins, a little spool of thread, scissors and a thimble. It's just beautiful - I like it VERY much.

It's little items like this that are setting a standard for the Gift Gallery and I'm having so much fun searching for  all sorts of different minis of equal quality.

Thank you Janny - it's beautiful and I love it!

I'm also waiting on wallpaper for the living quarters of The Tearooms but I think it's been held up by all the snow we've been having here.   I have been collecting bits for those rooms and hope to have something to show you all shortly.

York Miniature Fair

This is my little haul of goodies from the York Miniature Fair.   I've never been to this one before but had heard it was very good and I have to agree - it was!   I had a marvellous time browsing and shopping and picked up this little lot.   There's a strawberry tart and tin of shortbread, a magazine rack and books, the cabinet, a box of tissues and the dirty plate with cutlery is from Mags-nificent Miniatures.  

I also picked up a variety of minis for my other properties - all in all, an excellent weekend and a marvellous fair. We got caught in all the snow as well but had an uneventful journey home. The picture below was taken on Sunday and that was just the start. It barely stopped and was still snowing when we left this morning.

More stock........

When I first saw this little item on Susanne's blog I knew right away that it would look just perfect in my Gift Gallery. Not long after, Susanne opened her shop Petite Brocante.

It wasn't long before I placed an order and this lovely little bracelet stand made its way from Denmark to Scotland.

I'm so pleased with it, thank you Susanne. I think it fits in there perfectly and thank you too for the lovely little gift you enclosed. I appreciate it very much.

Welcome, new followers.........

A very warm welcome to all new followers.   It's lovely to have you here and I hope you like what you see.

Ah, poor little Tea Rooms!

Despite having a whole day to spend at Miniatura and a fairly substantial budget, this is the sum total of items purchased for The Tearooms.

It wasn't that I didn't see anything, but given that I'm still filling the Gift Gallery it could have taken up all my budget just finishing off that one room and as I don't particularly need all the items to be high end, I'm happy just to pick up what I like when I spot it. It's also difficult with the Gift Gallery to know exactly what I'm looking for in advance due to nature of it.

Having said that, I just couldn't let the little honey pot and drizzler stay there - I had to have them and the little cake slice was the very first thing I purchased on the day. The handle is actually white - to simulate bone or ivory - it just doesn't show up well in that picture.

More stock for the Gift Gallery

After reading Susanne's blog I was inspired to make my own cushions*. I already had all that I needed to get started and it was a nice little job to do sitting in the conservatory with the sun shining. They maybe don't bear close scrutiny (!) but for my first attempt at this, I'm pleased with them. The ottoman is from Dolls House Emporium.

*The designs were taken from The Graphics Fairy

Just a pix fix!

Not much has been happening with the Tea Rooms at the moment, I'm waiting on inspiration to strike for the upper floors. A bit of shopping is called for, I think.

So, while waiting on that said inspiration, I thought I'd post more pics (because that's what we all like) of areas showing a bit more of the detail.

I can't remember if I've shown a picture of the whole interior of The Tearooms so here it is as it stands today. Lots more still to do with this.

You'll notice that I haven't included the roof space in this picture - that's because it's full of tools and sundries! The roof space is the next stage and I'm still thinking about that one.

Still lots to do in the Gift Gallery as well and I'll add pictures of that as it fills up.