Spring is here!

 

Just a peak on some of the flowers I have been working on. 

Spring is here and pansies and daffodils are blooming everywhere.

Nothing like nature inspiring you to make mini flowers.

I especially wanted to make geraniums as I miss Greece and sea breezes so much!

Mediterranean update

The furniture here are from my husband business trip to New York last summer. Not only do they make me smile because they are pleasing to the eye but because he was so sweet to take time to find them. He did such a brilliant job considering he doesnt know a thing about miniatures.

More work needed here too, more lights, curtains, deciding on the placements of the frames and so on.

Still unfinished......

Mediterranean and a Giveaway!

Here it is! After a very windy weekend and snow yesterday, I got a good day to take pictures of the house with its exterior completed.

The front door with plants I have made in the past. But dying to make some geraniums!

The chimney, can you see the similar roof of our next door neighbour in the backround?

The veranda, I plan a couple of plants to go over the pergolas.

I want to make changes on the coffee table, just not sure what yet.

I plan to make the cushion for the bench, some decor for the walls.

What do you think?

And to celebrate this completion, there is a surprise giveaway on the 10th of April.

All you have to do is be a follower and leave a comment on this blog entry.

Thank you in advance to all that take the time to visit and drop a few words.

Many hugs

Michelle

I turned blue!

Here is a sneak preview of the house, the doors and windows were blue. So  I sanded them and briefly looked like a smurf with blue dust everywhere! Then painted them white. The look is similar to those seen in the Cyclades (see picture below), I have set a goal to have pictures of the exterior by this weekend.

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.

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

Pithoi, a little bit of mediterranean gardening.

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Just finished this Bougainvillea kit from Georgina Steed (her blog here), and placed it in the Grecian pot mentioned in an earlier post. This took a while to finish as I only did a small branch at a time. Thank you Georgie for making this beautiful kit.

Progress....

Here we are so far.... I just wish the blue french doors would come soon...... Also I have news for the Giveaway, because of the many numbers of followers joining, I decided to draw 2 more prizes on Friday, these will be revealed then, Thank you for your comments!

Mediterranean Decor

Inspired by this picture I decided to make a decoration for the Mediterranean house. I took some thin wire (26) and shaped it to the pattern I designed, see below.For the 'fleur-de-lis'  I used a card to punch out the shape and glued to the wires. Then painted it black and a coating of matt varnish to simulate iron wrought.

New Dollhouse and pithoi

I have been working on a new dollhouse lately, its a weekly magazine with parts of the dollhouse kit and furniture. Just past the 65th week, so started to assemble it. Here is a sneak peak :) More pictures soon....

Now this is the loveliest pot ( I fell in love with it! In Greek 'pithoi') and have a plant in mind for it, can you guess which one?

The pot stands 2 1/2 inches tall (or 6 1/2 cms if you prefer metric)

Below is a life size one