I'm stuck.........!

Sometimes I just sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits...........

I feel I must apologise to all my followers here as there hasn't been much activity with The Tearooms of late.   The trouble is..........I'm stuck!   I should be decorating the living quarters in the roof space and I bought a lovely carpet at the York Fair in November.   I've also got a sofa and a chair for the room but I'm really struggling with where to take it all next.   Do I paint the walls or paper, if so, what colour?   Do I match the carpet or do I match the furniture?   

To match the carpet is a tricky one as I need to get to a fair to see paper and fabric in real life.   Too many times I've chosen something on-line, only to find that it's the wrong shade.

The more I look at the room and what I've got so far, the more confused I get.   I've tried walking away from it and concentrating on something else (hence the long gap between posts) but that hasn't worked and I'm no further forward.

Inspiration will present itself in time - it usually does and I'll have a bit of a eureka moment - but I felt I had to post something to explain the lack of progress!

Happy New Year!

A very Happy New Year to all my followers - thank you for making this fun! Irene x

Merry Christmas!

A very Merry Christmas to all my followers and I wish you all you wish yourselves.    Irene X

Yum, yum!

Don't these little cakes look yummy?   They arrived today (hurrah, the post in Scotland is moving again) from France.

I chose these two little cakes from the lovely selection offered by Paris Miniatures.

It was very difficult to decide which little cakes I would have - they are all so mouthwatering.

Thank you Emma - I love them!

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.