Dollshouse on the road

Most of you know that I live in a very small appartement and my two windows and balcony are to the southwest-side, so unfortunately I have no place to take pictures on the other side of the house. The view out of my window as a background for my dollshouses is fotographed so many times, that it is boaring for me. I often wanted to take one of my houses outside, but I was too lazy to put all the stuff in boxes or a bag and so it was only a dream to make fotos with nice backgrounds of my town or the nature, as it is possible with my dolls.
But yesterday I found this greenhouse in a shopwindow and allthough it was not cheap, I bought it for my dollshouse on the road. I wouldn't have bought it, if it hadn't had a carrying handle.

First I went a few stairs above and tried fotos out of the stairway-window, from there you can see the "Fernsehturm", our town's landmark. But I must build something to set the house, so my first trials was not as good as I hoped. But I took the house and walked around the 1:1 house I live in - here are the results. I'm looking forward to the next warm day when I go to the park with it ;-)

Spring

Finally Spring!
I went out with a cardigan today, yeah that is spring, I'm so glad the cold weather is gone.
I've got a plastic-bag in a big store and it has wonderful colours, so I tried to use it as a floor, but it was tricky to take fotos without reflexions of the sunlight.

I hope to find more time to post other pics soon.....

three days off

I found a little turtle in the charity-shop (which is on my way home from work) some days ago and totally forgot it in my bag.
This is typical for me, because I have to think of so many other things than my miniatures in the last weeks.
I enjoy this way of life very much.
To all my new followers and to the blogowners who's blogs I like to follow: I have look at all your new posts and pictures and even try to read the english text, but there is often no time to comment. Be sure I notice your progress, your success and the new things you buy, even your dailylife-sorrows.
I'm offline the holidays, visiting friends. At one of my last visits there I "bought" some stuff I found in the toys-box - like this little rabbit on the table, I painted it white.
So you can be curious what they want to sell this time!
I was looking for some Easter-decoration for this post, but I only found a kinder-egg. The watercolor on the wall is by me.
Lovely holidays to all of you who enjoy the resurrection of HIM!

some special days

do you know such special days with so many different things that happen? and then you come back and there are two packets in the mail?
Yesterday I found the stag (or deer? is there a difference?) and the frame. I think there would be perhaps a person who'd love to have these finds in a room she/he lives in. Everything is possible, you can imagine!
Today I've got the sweet apple-notebook, and finally the little Re-ment house and many more Re-ment bits in the mail! Thanks to Carol you wanted me to have a treat like this and thanks to Callsmall who sent the packet to me. A 3-person-swap!

The dentist

In the shop where I found the little hello kitty figures, I took a few very dirty items that was in a box with playmobil-items. okay, playmobil is too small, but I thought it could be a good furniture for a hairsalon and so I bought them and had a better look at it later. I noticed that it was a dentist surgery and so I tried to make one.

The visit of grandchildren

Yesterday I had a nice dvd-evening with a friend. We watched "The Nanny Diaries" and had a lot of fun. Before I found a few things in a charity-shop and used-toy-shop and she helped me to get the easter decoration out of the basket I had in mind as a basket for newspapers. It wasn't easy to get it off indeed! I would have destroyed it, if I'd tried it.
I finally found a needlepoint-work in a wooden frame, that I was looking for in the last month, I wanted to use it as a carpet and this one is perfect. I also found the mask on the wall, the grammophone, a necklace with the beads (vases) and some very tiny hello-kittys.

Because I don't want to make a nursery I decided to show you the tidy room of grandparents during the visit of their grandchildrens: The alcohol is banned from the table, something to eat and books everywhere and the toys on the carpet.
They hope the wonderful new carpet will stay clean.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34826252@N06/4466643618/in/photostream/

okay, this is the last

Update: the things I used in a vine-box I got for nothing in a big store.

bathroom

Update: the things I used. (forgot the cork-blog, I showed the eggholdre allready)

study

Update: the items I used (I forgot the white table, it's a small bowl for dessert)

what's the big idea?

guess, what's the special thing about this scene?


Update: the items I used:

Tatatataaaah!

My first book is published!
I'm so proud!!!















haha.... kidding!




Last weekend I had a long phonecall with an old friend of mine, who lives in lower-saxony (near püppilottchen). I haven't seen her for years. She has got a computer and internet meanwhile, but she doesn't like and so her husband. They are both about more than 70 years old.
I wanted to show her my minis online, but she said: "My treasure, I love to read books or to look into a book with nice pictures, but don't force me to use the computer"

Okay, I really wanted her to see my fotographs and so I ordered this book online. You can make the layout with the software or online and a few days later it is in your mailbox. Mine arrived today and it really looks so good, that I want to show it to you lovely bloggers, before I put it into a parcel to my friend Monika.

Update of grandmothers flat and plastic-flowers

Some of my scenes exists only a very short time - I make my fotos for the blog and then destroy them. Some scenes may stay for a few days, untill I want to build another scene in the same room. But some scenes stay for a very long time, so this one of my grandmothers appartement. So I looked at it every day and sometime I thought, that my grandma had no piano, but a sewing machine. And I took my sewing machine and some more accesoires and replaced some pieces, put the vintage lamp in - now I love this room more than before - for me it is more authentic now. The picture frame above the sofa is a little bit too small, but nothing is perfect.

A little bit of spring arrived in germany, I got some plastic flower out of the basement, that I use every year in the time before I get the summer flowers on the balcony. I realized, that the orange ones are in exactly the same colour than some flowers petitenouveau sent me in a swap - have a look:

Thank you!

Update: Sorry that I'm so bad with the credits. I found the magazine in the bin and found out, that it was John William Waterhouse who made this painting, it shows Cleopatra.


I want to say thank you all for your caring and good wishes.

Last night I wasn't tired and took this picture I found in a magazin last week. I thought it could be a good kind of wallpaper, but there was no idea how.

I want to show the opposite of the warm wood and the cold metal in this scene. For me it goes together very good.

I'm not so good in history, is it a guardian angel on that painting? For me it is and helps me through the roughness of life - like you.

A warm welcome to all my new followers who visited and subscribed my blog in the last weeks. I'm sorry that I'm no more able to welcome each of you with flowers like in the beginning of my blogging. Take the next flower you see and like as my greetings!