More from Annina (and from India)

Today I actually only want to show you one of the goodies Annina sent me with the chairs: A game I do not know till now.
But i like to put it on the tiny table and immediatly was in my childhood - all the men in my family love to play games. on every birthday-party they played "Skat" on a table in the bedroom, that was put into the bedroom only for this day. My grandfather was smoking his cigar, they all drank a lot of bear and "Schnaps", but they was able to count for the game the whole time.

But of course there was no modern designer furniture like this in my grandparents flat ;-)

PS: The postcard on the wall arrived this week from india, where friends of mine (the man born in india) with their small children stay for the winter....

the german curator

dear callsmall, I hope you see it as a compliment, that I was so impressed and inspired of your curator-scene/idea and made one too. I don't know why I haven't used a pillar in my scenes before, but now there is one.
annina's packet with the bozart furniture arrived today, and a few sweet adds - thank you so annina!
this is a way "my" curator lives:

A sailor's room ?

I'm not sure if a sailor would like to live like this, I think these stuff is more for tourists of the sea or marine-lovers. But I don't know. Does anyone knows a sailor?

while organizing my postcards (look at my flickr-folder "living with a dollshouse") I found this sailing-boats and had the idea to make a sailors room. the room in the lundby-house with the stairs is allways a bit hard for me to furnish, so I was glad to found all the pieces makes a harmony in this room.
If you are curios about the light: I used two little pocket lamps that are meant to help you find the doorlock of your car. I put adhesive tape around, because you have to push when you want light and then I glued it with "bluetack" that is white in germany. I do not know how to make fotos without this plasticine.


Hope you all had a nice weekend.

living with dollshouses

I'm not finished with the new furniture in my room, but it looks much better than before and I have enough space for all my roomboxes and the two houses.

see more on my flickr.

bad girl

I often speak about the fact, that in my office nobody tells us we work good, but every single mistake is never forgotten to be mentioned.
Today was a day I felt that I only did everything wrong. Nobody noticed it and I corrected everything (I hope), but it was very frustrating for me.
Allthough I purchased Anninas K-House-furniture and planned to be a good girl and buy nothing more this month I MUST go to the railway-shop today, because I want to do something against my frustration. I knew there was a little trailer I would like to buy. After picking the trailer I had a short look at the N-scale houses - I bought a few of them in the last weeks - and look what I found: a wonderful church!
I think you'll agree that I have to take it, mmh?











WOW now I'm totally relaxed

grau in grau

Everything is grey in my town, no sunshine, no colour. This is not the grey I love.
I remember a time in my life, when everyone has a wall-to-wall-carpeting. It is no more modern and most people have wooden floors, but in this cold days I think it would be nice to be in a room with only carpet on the floor.
The other thing in this scene that has to do with former times is the flat-tv on the wall. When I first saw such a tv many many years ago (for about 12.000 €)I decided, that I MUST have such a screen one day far in the future. The reason is, that I never liked the tv-player in my living room, sometimes I even put a cloth over it. But this flat thing on the wall is okay. Last week I got this flat-tv from my daughter and her bf, because they got a bigger one. Now I am so happy to watch tv without my glasses!

The clock - I think everyone has this clock - is a gift from Carol, she noticed, that I hasn't this clock. The reason is, that I planned to make it one day - but now I can use it without crafting. Thanks again Carol!

lighthouse-dollshouse

Update 11.01.10:
I found this real lighthouse-fotos in the internet while searching "living in a lighthouse". If you scroll down in this link, you can see more pics of the interior with designer-furniture. I love it.

Finished Interior, ursprünglich hochgeladen von alamo square

this is a great idea for people like me who have not enough space: while thinking about the "how" of putting my new shelves into my room I had the vision of a tower for room, that is high and uses less room on the bottom. I saw a wonderful lighthouse in the beginning of my small interest, but I didn't found the same, but this one on flickr.
and: I found that it is a kit I could buy and try to build of my own, the price is okay I think. It would fit wonderful in the corner of my room beside the window. I would try to make bigger windows or a conservatory -we will see.
here is the link to the company in germany which sells this "greenleaf"-product.

Only a little scene for resting

Inmitten meines Umräum-Chaos wollte ich doch ein paar Sachen zeigen, u. a. die Geschenke von Carol wie das hölzerne Sofa und die tönerne Sonne an der Wand. Weitere Sachen von ihr zeige ich später.
Leider ging ein Likörglas kaputt, aber nun habe ich einen tollen Ständer für einen Tisch, ein Teil eines Kugelschreibers aus dem Büro ist auch dabei. Aus dem Büro ist ebenfalls das Mousepad und die Weihnachtskarte an der Wand. Die Messingsachen auf dem Tisch habe ich am Hamburger Hafen gekauft, ebenso den kleinen Leuchtturm. Die beiden Elefanten sind aus dem Oxfam-Shop, wo ich schon einige schöne Sachen gefunden habe, allerdings nicht so billig wie in dem Trödelladen, den ich vorher hatte.

Google-Translation - because I am so tired ;-)
In the midst of my chaos moving furniture but I wanted to show a few things, including the gifts of Carol as the wooden sofa and the clay sun on the wall. Other things I'll show her later.
Unfortunately, a liqueur glass broke, but now I have a great stand for a table, a part of a pen from the office is also there. From the office is also the mouse pad and the Christmas card to the wall. The brass things on the table I bought at the port of Hamburg, just the little lighthouse. The two elephants are from the Oxfam shop, where I've found some nice things, but not as cheap as in the junk shop, which I had before.

Carry in Hamburg

I took a doll with me on my short trip to Hamburg, because I liked to see such pics in the MyRealitty-blog. My Midge was too big for my small baggage and so I chosed Carry. Oh, it was to cold for her summer-dress and we had snow in Hamburg.


So she was very envy to see a fellow in a shopwindow with clothes, warm enough.....

Some more of her impressions:

(seen in the bathroom of my host Anke)


See more Hamburg-Fotos in my flickr-album Hamburg 2010

Review of the Year 2009

Dear blogger-friends, dear new followers!
Thank you for beeing my visitor - some of you - nearly every day. I enjoy your interestingness, comments and questions or suggestions very much. I'm so glad that I improved my english and that there are less words I have to look after in the dictionary month by month. That is because of you! I would never be motivated to improve my english before having so many international readers.
I want to give you, and especially the new followers, a very short overview of my posts this year.
Have fun! Have a good new year and may some of your dreams come true (and there may be some dreams left to dream).
Oese
PS: I made this post a few days ago, today I'll go to celebrate the last day of the year with a friend in Hamburg and at the weekend I will build my new IKEA-furniture.

Januar 2009
This is how it all begun: A few tiny things like playmobil in my cupboard - I liked the idea to have a small hair-salon. Had no idea to what this would lead....

Februar 2009
I began to craft a few things with cardpaper and fabric and polymer clay, I bought some dogs and beads and looked at the things I had allready with "mini-eyes".


März 2009
I purchased my first miniatures in HongKong. Didn't know what trouble that means with the customs. But all went well and I made a designer-table from light wood I saw in the other blogs for miniatures.
April 2009
I was so inspired by the other bloggers, I wanted to copy the wonderful style, I didn't realized yet, that my furniture was too big for my lundby-house.

Mai 2009 Messe in Soest
My first miniature-fair - I only visited because it was near to my hometown. It was a bit overwhelming for me, but I found a few nice chairs without paying posting or customs.

Juni 2009 Villa Eichhorn - pimped
I purchased a dollshouse for children and had a lot of work and fun to pimp it up to a kind of "modern dollshouse". It found its place near the window and I learned to make fotos with the sunlight or lamps beside it. It was really a lot of fun!

Juli 2009 First Swap
I bought so many things this year and I realized, that I couldn't keep them all. I dediced to give away some items and had my first Swap with the very nice Lady Doreen. She got three Bodo-Hennig dolls. The familiy arrived in Canada and had a warm welcome.

August 2009 Antique dollshouse furniture
I made a short trip with my son to pick up a very old dollshouse I found on ebay. I loved the antique furniture, but not the house. And everything was much bigger than I guessed after looking at the fotographs. Some of this pieces are in Australia now, because Rebecca loved it too, but I kept this wonderful doll and a few pieces for my scenes. I had a lot of work with it on my balcony - but it was worth it.

September 2009 The last summer days
Doreen made a wonderful barbecue, a golf-bag and some other really nice things for me. I made this summer scene that some of you reminds of their own garden-corners.
It is to mention that I had swaps with a few others of my new blogger friends, not only Doreen. And it was a great pleasure to me.

Oktober 2009 More minimini-houses
I first visited the modelrailway shop in my neighborhood and found a lot of nice N-scale houses for my collection. I started with a Villa Sibi made of a little wooden box and that was the beginning! This is my way to collect nice dollshouses, because I have no space to collect the real ones.

November 2009 Extension floor
This was my chance to get another room which needs no more space: the extension floor for my smaland house. I love big rooms with the possibility to make two areas like living and cooking or sleeping and working.

Dezember 2009 Massage-bench
I admired the work of Pinchofpepper on flickr and had the currage to ask her for making me an OOAK-piece. And she agreed and started immediatly, because she loves to make minis.
Hi Pinchofpepper, if you read this: Best wishes to you!

Tulip

Yesterday my late Christmas-gift arrived: four tulip-chairs. They are reac, I purchased them from Elizabeth/ELF mins in London. After seeing the pictures of her apartement I'm so pleased to deal with her - I think she is a very nice lady, friendly and openminded.
Because I'm busy with my IKEA-visit today and my journey to Hamburg I only made a little scene, that is not like I would like to present this wonderful chairs - but I wanted to show you......

My own room

This is definitely the point in time, where I have to pay more attention to my own room and stop buying or decorating new mini-stuff. I want my stuff in my flat and not in the basement (where I could storage it all), but that means I have to buy furniture for all these building-blocks and wood and fabric, tools, boxes with accesoires and so on. Not to mention the collection of vintage and modern furniture in a few scales.
During the holidays I tried to find out, what I need and what I want, but it is quite difficult in my room, because it has so many corners, three doors and I want a bed AND a sofa
Here is one trial with the Ikea-planner, but that's not the solution. You can only put workroom or kitchen or bedroom furniture in this planner, this is the reason why there is a bench instead of my beloved sofa in the middle.

Update: The living space of Elizabeth (ELF-Miniatures). Thank you maggi for the hint.

Winter-Solstice

I am and was allways a huge fan of solstice-fire! In former times I lived in a nice landscape with crazy people around - they often lit a fire in their gardens and we sat or danced around and sung, don't care, if the people might say, we are witches!
I miss this fires very much, in the town it is not allowed to make a fire in the garden.
Today I am so happy because of the change to more light, this day brings to us. I wanted to make a scene with a few dolls and a fire, but then many things went wrong and so I could only take pictures of my mad balcony-fire in an old bowl of emaille (I think I had a bath in it, when I was a baby :-)