Vermischtes - miscellaneous

Aufgrund des NY-Times Artikels hat mich ein deutscher Journalist angeschrieben - auf Englisch! Es war für mich ein Signal, doch wieder zweisprachig zu bloggen, schließlich muss ich fast jeden Post mühselig übersetzen. Außerdem wäre es natürlich schön, wenn ein paar mehr deutsche Miniaturisten sich für die moderne Sparte interessieren würden.
Ich zeige heute mal ein paar Fotos aus den letzten Wochen, die bisher unveröffentlicht sind - fühle mich gerade etwas weniger kreativ, was aber okay ist.

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Die Küche: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit

The Kitchen: desire and reality

ENG.:
After the NY Times article a german journalist contacted me - in english. This was a signal for me to blog in two languages again, anyhow I have to translate each post with effort. Furthermore I'd really like some more german minifans to join the modern section. Because I feel a bit non-creative at the moment (but I don't mind) I show you a few pictures of the last weeks I didn't published yet.

this cool sideboard ...

... on ebay at the moment
Perhaps someone wants to add it to the collection. I think it's worth it.

yellow ?

my printer only produced this wallpaper in yellow. so I have new yellow furniture!
I have two wooden eyeglass-cases, but I don't use them very often, here you can see them as a tv-wall-unit with a vintage game-board.
the "art" in the corner is .... ???

wallpaper of callsmalls brio-house

I felt in love with the wallpaper, when I saw Callsmalls new house! What a treasure. I remember having seen such wallpapers in my childhood, but I never found such a pattern online, allthough I searched very often.
I did some fotoshop-work tonight and this is the result. I hope it's useful for some of you.
And here a trial with the desktop of my laptop:

pool

I surfed on the site of Krista Peel today and that reminds me, that I wanted to make a pool for a long time. Why didn't I realized it so far?

Today (tonight) I had the right idea for the tiles - that was the building with blocks in the last days - and so the pool-scene comes into beeing:

Hausputz

Wie üblich klingelt gerade dann der Paketbote, wenn ich mich endlich vom PC losreißen und den Haushalt machen will. Die gelben Vintage-Möbel sind überraschend passend für Lundby, ich hatte sie für größer gehalten. Um so besser. Ein Schnäppchen für 1.50!
ENG.:
As usual the postman rings at the door just in the moment when I decided to quit surfing and do begin my housework! The yellow vintage-furniture is surprisingly good for lundby-size, I thought they were bigger. Very good! A bargain for 1,50 Euro!

Sie haben allerdings eine gründliche Reinigung nötig!
ENG.:
They need a cleaning indeed.

Auch die nötigen Reparaturen sollen endlich erledigt werden. Schon lange ist die Türklinke kaputt.
ENG.:
I want to fix the door handle today, which is broken for a while.

Gardinen abnehmen...

und den Teppich shampoonieren. Mit dem schönen neuen Gerät - kam mit den gelben Sesseln - kein Problem.
ENG.:
Cleaning the curtains and the carpet. For the carpet a new shampooner arrived with the furniture - so no problem!+


Auch diese Kommode kam heute an.
ENG.:
This dresser arrived too:

Jetzt wird der PC aber wirklich ausgemacht. Es ist zwar kalt, aber die Sonne scheint!
ENG.:
But no I'll switch off the pc - it is cold but sunny outside.

mosaic

mosaic-maker
you can see each foto on flickr

at night

I couldn't sleep this night and played around with my wooden blocks. Of course the lighting is very bad at night and I don't wanted to illume the whole room (that works!), so I shot a few pics and edited them. I hope it's useful for some of you who aren't familiar with editing their fotos.

I know that a real fotographer don't like editing like this, but for me it's okay!

original foto ...................lighten


cutting ........................angle


sharpening ..................highlights


color temperatur.............. ready

useful toothpicks

Another wall-unit made of wooden blocks and boxes for toothpicks.

I used this boxes in different ways as you can see here:
toothpick-boxes

hyperfocus

I couldn't stop with the building blocks...

Eames

I'm such a lucky person having so many online-friends sending me nice pieces! Thanks to CM from My Realitty for this chair. It is broken, but it wasn't available in the shops I searched for it. I tried to glue it, but it is hard because the chair is heavy and the thingamabomb is so small. For a first shot I fixed it the way you see on the last foto. I really have to ask my son to help me.
By the way: Carols blog is uncomparable, she has more then 180 followers and she's blogging for half a year!

the golden ratio

Update:
This is the post in Mini Modern, where I saw first the use of building blocks in a dollshouse. It was very inspiring to me and I want you to show:

Often when I try to make furniture from matchboxes or other boxes or when I need a piece of paper for the flooring of my rooms I noticed, that the things go so well together in their size. Two matchboxes are good for one sofa (the green sofa in the last scene is from covered matchboxes), a sheet of paper is good for the floor in my conservatory and so on.
When I worked as a hairdresser I often read about the golden ratio and tried to find out how to cut the hair with the golden ratio. I wanted to get to the bottom of the beauty and I had very interesting talks with my clients and others about this.
Today I googled for some 1:1 designer cabinets, because I have some more designer-chairs now and most of the cabinets I have are vintage or just boxes or too ordinary. I found a cabinet I like and resolved to try to build it and if I would fail to give an order to "pinchofpepper" or Elisabeth from ELF. I took my praline-box (my very first cabinet), some building blocks, but only for a study and sketch, but then was so happy to realize, that one thing fits to the other. The building-blocks to the box and a tic-tac-box as well. Some "dingsbums" by ikea - and ready!
I didn't measure it, but it MUST be the golden ratio!

The sofa is from pinchofpepper, I think I missed to present it so far, it came with the bedroom and other nice gifts she sent me a while ago. :-)

black & white

This is the second chair I got from ELF-Miniatures in UK. I like to buy these designer-chairs in Europe, they arrive quickly.