Exterior walls

 

I have been working on the exterior of the mediterranean. The changed  look of the house will resemble the Greek island houses you see on the Cyclades. White washed walls and blue window shutters.

My Daughter's play :)

Yesterday my 2nd daughter , Kathryn was in the 5th grade play '' The Quest for Courage'' , the whole grade  prepared everything, Kathryn was also one of the stage managers.  The play has been written by 5th graders in the past.  My son Manoli was one of the writers then, his part in the play was  Sir Know-it-all . Kathryn was princess Clothlide.

What can I say : A very proud mum! :)

Mediterranean Kitchen Walls



I finished the walls today, its been taking  long  to finish the project as looking after the kids and hubby take most of my time. I mentioned the way I made these in this blog entry earlier.

The flowers are from a kit from Pascale Garnier, I havent decorated it it yet or added any other items as I wanted just to show you what I have completed so far. Once I have finished the whole house I will start to add the details, most of which has been in storage for years.

Mediterranean House

Click on the above image to take you to the video ad of this house

I have been working on it and should have some pics very soon. Meanwhile here is a small climpse of the bathroom.

I redecorated the mirrors of the collection of this house. They were brown frames, I painted it them cream and then added gold leaf and tried to distress the look.

The floor tiles were an idea from Brae at Otterine ,She guided me to find these, thank you for the help Brae!

Its been a long time.....

Its been crazy with no time for hobbies, but here is an update on some of the things that have been going on. I started this week a tiled wall project, this involved taking watercolour paper to paint with acrylics in these shades Vanilla, Napoli yellow, pistachio, pale olive, sienna and powder blue. Each sheet had about 3 of these shades in various combinations. Brush strokes, sponge painting, blowing streaks of the watery version of the colours. Then each sheet was cut into 1 cm by 1 cm squares and glued to my 'wall'. Not sure if I will like the result but here is what I have done so far. I found Josje tutorial very helpful, wish me luck.

I have also been very lucky with generous internet friends. Thank you so much!

I received these from Kikka

and these from Jean

Glass paint

I bought these beads at the KDF ( wish I got more....) The gold ones had holes that I added glass paint with a toothpick. Once dried I added the gold top.

Christmas tutorial

http://miniatures.about.com/od/christmasminiatures/ss/beadxmasorn.htm

http://miniatures.about.com/od/christmasminiatures/qt/xmasornglz.htm

Here are some great tutorials I found at about.com from trees and ornaments. Been working on some, will show and tell soon.

KDF miniatures

Here are few of the minis I purchased, I just love the elephant's hair-do

and of course pots for my plants :)

I will post more of what I got for the dining room soon.

Kensington Dollhouse Festival Dec 2010

Just returned from London, absolutely thrilled! I attended my first dollhouse show and I am filled with awe, inspiration and delight.  After 10 years of seeing miniatures on the screen I was able to see people's wonderful work in person. I am absolutely going to try to go again. The weather was perfect, no snow, I was a bit worried as the BBC news in Greece painted such a bad picture.





I got to meet Georgina Steeds, a wonderfully warm and friendly lady and saw her plants face to face positively gorgeous. She has a new blog you can now get her news on fairs, workshops and kits.

Anthoula was also there, both of us smiling from ear to ear, she is returning on Monday and cant wait to meet her for coffee and share our experience.

Today the kids will be at school and I will take pictures of the miniatures I was able to purchase. As I am sure everyone has had this: there were a lot more that I wanted to purchase, far too many temptetions ,lol! I was glad I had a list with various options and kept to it.

Thank you KDF organisers it was a wonderful experience!

Anthoula did it again!

Anthoula spoiled me yet again , absolutely beautiful mini sweets made into earings, unfortunately my photography does not do her work justice.

Thank you Anthoula!!!

Wonderful gifts from Margaret!

These beautiful minis arrived today from Margaret at http://petit-parterre.blogspot.com/  ! The Plants need planting in pots, that I will do once I return from our vacation, so my apologies for presenting them like this.

I am absolutely thrilled , thank you Margaret!

This is probably my last post until September, so see you then,

Michelle

Winners!!!

Here we are..............drum roll........

*The Daffodil and Jellybean cactus both in Tim Schmidt bisque pots go to Patty from MiniBabes * a Cinenaria in a Tim Schmidt bowl decorated by me goes to Marit at Black Cat Cottage * two Primulas Auricula one in a Tim Schmidt bowl and one in a bowl handmade by me go to Flora at La Casa Delle Bambole Di Flora Thank for your support and comments. hugs Michelle

New Giveaway

To celebrate today the opening of  my etsy shop and reaching 105 followers I have three items to giveaway, Three people will be chosen from the comments left in this entry, only rule you must be a follower. So here are the three flowers I am offering : * its a Daffodil and Jellybean cactus both in Tim Schmidt bisque pots * a Cinenaria in a Tim Schmidt bowl decorated by me * two Primulas Auricula one in a Tim Schmidt bowl and one in a bowl handmade by me. The draw will be on the 3rd of Aug. Good luck, lets have fun! Thank for your support and comments.