Thursday, March 27, 2008

Tea Time!

Today we have variety of cake serves for your tea time, key lime cream, strawberry cream, double chocolate, chocolate-cookie and cream or if you like we also have a single serve dish with chocolate strawberry cake, all are freshly baked from my Tooth Fairy mini-bakery shop. :)
I'm inspired by Martha W. Puff's collection and her mini-bakery shop. I started my miniature life by collecting what others made and then, began to make my own. I started out my mini making with 1:12th scale 3-tier wedding cakes and jumped down to 1-tier 1:24th scale cakes, to long stem roses, to 1:12th scale cookie and some simple bakeries and finally back to 1:12th scale cakes and pastries. I also tried 1:48th scale cakes and real cake replication with the 'made to order' service.

Many of my mini-collector friends display their miniature collection at their place to share them with their family and friends and some use the minis for ornament (was just last Christmas) and some wear the minis as jewelry - earrings, pendants, bracelets, etc.

However, my main obsession is making dollhouse miniatures... :)

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Hello everyone!


Let me introduce myself! I'm Linda & I live in the North East of England with dogs, hens, pheasants & of course a hubby!
I'm very new to this blogging, so please don't shout at me..you can laugh all you like...if I'm making a complete mess of this!

I am a mini food fanatic whose main aim in life these days is to create miniature food, generally 1/12th scale, that is as detailed & as realistic as I can possibly get it. I will spend days getting just the "right" look & texture to my mini foods, but curse, very long & loud, when I have to make the "real" thing for my poor "better half"...& if only the "real" thing looked as appetising as the mini variety....!


I particularly love to create fish & shellfish dishes, perhaps because I love to eat them...at the moment the flavour of the month are fresh mussels!

I also enjoy creating "gory" Tudor pieces, they would use chopping blocks made from large logs to butcher the meat for their tables & this one depicts a boar's head being butchered! Nice!!



Saturday, March 1, 2008

Challenge Winner

Polka Dot Toadstool's fast, nimble fingers won the Spring MiniMakers Challenge with her kite-flying elf riding a snail. To see this cute little guy, go to: http://flickr.com/photos/24119352@N08/2301384098/in/pool-550123@N21
Or visit her Etsy shop at polkadottoadstool.etsy.com
Congratulations Cheri!