Blue Soup Miniatures

More cakes and Wilma's clothes

2012-03-22T08:03:00.000-07:00

So, here is - only with a delay from about 4 months since my last post, somtimes time flies - my new post about the bakery and Wilma's new clothes lol...

Ah and well, maybe you recognize my new header for springtime, it's for free from ITKUPILLI. You find a link on this blog on the sidebar. I love these images :)

It was so much fun decorating the shelves with all the cakes and pastry that I've been collecting over the last years. Sadly I don't remember all the seller and artists who made the cakes...

- 3 cakes on the top shelf: bought at http://www.fransminiatures.com/

- 2 cakes on the middle shelf: the seller's ebayname is ambourxx

- 7 cakes on the top shelf: the seller's ebayname is ***mini2hase***

- wrapped wafer biscuit and peppermint drops: the seller's ebayname is smiletigger

And here is my attempt to make clothes for this beautiful doll. I didn't have any pattern and the result isn't perfect, but I'm quite happy with it... and I hope Wilma likes it, too :)

Profiteroles Tower and Giveaway by Pei Li

2011-11-20T12:42:00.000-08:00

I'm a little late joining Pei Li's wonderful giveaway. But the theme fits perfect to my bakery, because now comes the fun part and I'm filling the shelves with all the little artworks I was collecting over the last years. And here is one of Pei Li's masterpieces. I'm very proud to own it, so it deserves a place in the first line :) It's beautiful, isn't it!

And of course I would love to win these gorgeous christmas themed cupcakes. I love the idea and colours!

Please skip on over to Pei Li's blog and try your luck!

http://miniaturepatisseriechef.blogspot.com/

In my next post I will show more of my filled shelves and you remember Wilma Wendelstein in the previous post? I will show her new clothes... :)

Bakery and Arnhem purchases

2011-11-10T10:08:00.000-08:00

Here is my bakery. Even if it looks like it is finished, well it is finished almost, only a few things to do... I started building it a few years ago and this is how it looks so far.

I bought the furnitures from Beate Holzner on Ebay she also sells her miniatures on the Arnhem fair. The furniture are made of plywood, so first I had to prepare them (all shelves edges) with a kind of plaster for wood, then I had to sanded them a lot, than pained them twice and at last gave them a layer of varnish, so a lot of work...

I built the room box for the bakery by my own design in the same way and size like I built the boutique.

And here comes my treasures from the Arnhem fair:

Garden table and chair by Piamini, pottery by Elisabeth Causeret (except the teapot, it is by Jason Feltrope) and the basket is made by Will Werson.

The fruits on the table are by Kiva, the cupcake is by Lory and the book by Michaela.

And last but not least here is a lovely little person who wants a job in the bakery. She only has to get a few new clothes...

Bathroom and Welcome!

2011-08-28T15:30:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted for a while, I had problems with posting and leaving comments on blogs. I saw that other bloggers also have had problems...
But anyway, now it worked again and here are some pictures of the bathroom. I made the washing table by myself.

And a warm Welcome to all my followers :)

Progress with the roombox

2011-05-21T07:13:00.000-07:00

Please click on the pics to enlarge

I'm not satisfied with the quality of the photos. My camera isn't good anymore, have to buy me a new one...

I made the door from wood and cardstock and painted it with white acrylic paint, than I added some "dirty" paint water.

Most of the accessoires you see here and in the following photos are bought from different seller years ago, mostly on Ebay or on fairs. I just do not remember all names! The only miniature I remember here is the little giraffe. It's made by twelfhdimension on Etsy.

I designed and build the cupboard and shelves from wood by my own design. First I wanted to build a bench between them with a window, but I decided not to... The doors can be opened, but they are not really working, they are stuck into the cupboard, they have no hinges yet. The two little doors above can not be opened.

This is the small table I showed you in the previous post. I glued all the small mosaic stones on it... a lot of work and (surprice, surprice) it isn't finished right now, I still have to plaster it with some sort of cast.

The two sewing baskets are made by me

Even though it seems like the room box is finished, it isn't! There are some things I still have to do, like moulding for the ceeling and the floor... or the cupboard, shelfes and chamber wall panelling need more paint, they are too white and clean!

New old room box and glitterchurch kit

2011-05-02T12:19:00.000-07:00

Two years ago or so I started to build this room box that I designed by myself. These days I decided to take it out of the "drawer" where it has hidden over the time and try to finish it. Here are the first pics before finishing it.

I think the two rooms will be a bathroom and a sleepingroom or nursery. I'm not sure yet.

Hope to show you the progress I will made in the next weeks, hopefully!!!

I also started to make this little table. I glued all these small colourful stones on it. Than I have to paint it.

Aaand here comes the wonderful glitterchurch kit from the very talented Karin Corbin which I won as a party favor on her blog. Thanks once again Karin, when it is finished I will find a nice place for it :-) It's 1:288 scale, so very small but building it was working good, but I'm not finished yet! What a surprise, my list of unfinished project grows and grows... ;-)

It's colour is peach, very lovely.

My Arnhem fair treasures

2011-03-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

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This is what I bought. A working pair of sciccors by Puppenwelt Wengen.

A lovely teapot and flower cupcakes by Lory ...

...and this awesome bowl and candlstick by Veronique Cornish.

Strawhat made by me.

I really had a fantasic day on the fair.

Arnhem fair impressions

2011-03-28T12:10:00.000-07:00

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Above: beautiful miniatures by Lory

Above: wonderful minis by http://www.blondiecreations.be/

Above: beautiful needlework by Nicola Mascall

Lovely miniatures by Victoria Heredia Guerbos

So unbelievable tiny...

2011-02-22T14:05:00.000-08:00

Love these little1:144 furniture laser kits from Volker Arnold

Amazing the details and the doors work!!!

So much fun making it!

I bought this 1:12 coffee set some time ago on Ebay. It's made completely of wood and reminds me of a little set I had when I was a child!

Christmas tree!

2010-12-22T19:15:00.000-08:00

I made this little Christmas tree and decorated it with some ornaments I bought some time ago on a fair. Of cause the tree needs a lot of more decoration... I also made the tiny wreath!

I also made this little laser cut kit I bought on a fair from Volker Arnold for my 1/144 scale house. It is unbelievale tiny and the drawers work!!!

To show how small it is I laid a matchstick next to it.

Merry Christmas!

Progress with the shop...

2010-11-25T04:20:00.000-08:00

...and a beautiful new miniature that I bought from Susanne at her Petit Brokante Shop. Look at these two lovely wreaths with rusty leaves in a wonderful box...

I also made progress with my shop!

In the edges of the ceeling I was glueing some white painted moldings and made a notice board from green grey fabric and a picture frame.

In the corner of the box you can see some grease spots where I tried to put on some shelves to see how they look there. I fixed them with a kind of blue plasticine which left these remnants. On the pic below you can see the new backwall I've made for the box because I thought the old wallpaper was not convenient for the shop...

At last I painted the wooden columns white and glued them in front of the box! Now I can put a transparent perspex sheet from above behind the columns and it will stick firm, so no dust will come into the box. All I have to do now is to paint the furnitures, which sound more simple as it is in fact, because it will be very time consuming...

Another new project...

2010-11-08T18:09:00.000-08:00

I started to prepare this baby house cabinet to install lighting and wallpaper...

I bought these teeny tiny 1/144 scale furnitures some time ago on a fair. Look at the cute accessories and cakes...

A very friendly witch and bearcabinminiatures giveaway!!!

2010-10-27T05:43:00.000-07:00

This could be grandma Lucy dressed like a very elegant witch for Halloween or a real very friendly witch who likes a graceful style, who knows... ;-)

Ok, but to make her not look too elegant ;-) I have made her a simple black scarf for her shoulders, which isn't made perfect at the seams!
The necklace in black and orange is bought!

I've made this witch hat from hat straw, inspired by Kat the hat lady's fantastic hats! The hatpins are made from a KIT...

(I've got some awesome original hats from Kat the hat lady, will show them some other time here on the blog)

I bought this wonderful doll some time ago from a very talented artist who sadly doesn't make dolls anymore! I got it with a very fine hand painted face and assembled as you can see it in the picture above. I think it's made of a casting pattern of a Cynthia Howe model! She has a really beautiful face... and I tried to make her a witchy dress out of black and purple fabric with black lace without any pattern, so I had not much experience with sewing clothes and for one of my first attempts I'm very happy with the result...

Also wanted to make a wig of red hair, but wasn't sure, because I know somewhere I have grey hair and maybe that fits better!?!

And now: the wonderful GIVEAWAY from BEARCABINMINIATURES

Please visit their blog for further information!

Happy Halloween :-)

A new project

2010-10-21T04:04:00.000-07:00

I decided to build a wooden box for a shop. I'm not quite sure of what it will be, maybe a perfumery, so I also started to make little perfume bottles, but I'm also thinking of a shop for sewing utensils or maybe a boutique where you can also buy jewelry...I don't know, we'll see!

I designed this simple box by myself and bought the wooden boards for it in a home improvement store where they also cut the boards into the right size.

I think the wallpaper is not convenient, liked it so much when I saw the colours and images, but I think it's not fitting for the shop...

I'm new in blogland!

2010-09-26T12:17:00.000-07:00

Hello, my name is Nicole and I'm collecting (in full possession of my mental power as an adult, not counting the two or three minis that survived from my childhood) and crafting miniatures for over five years now. And I'm addicted to minis probably since forever. Started in my early childhood when I saw the great dollhouse of a playmate...

Hmm... and why I called the blog Blue Soup Miniatures... I don't know... everything else I was thinking of was already taken by other bloggers so this popped into my mind from nowhere... or may be there was a book where I read a funny story about a blue soup... so it doesn't mean sad, it means colourful blue like the colourful world of miniatures.

This little dog was one of my first miniatures when I was a child. It survived about for over thirty years now! It's made of resin or may be a kind of porcelain!?! The two containers under the table are made by me from hat straw, they are meant for sewing utensils as you can see in the front, I also made winding for lace.

And yes it's a small copy of The Little Prince you see here.