I hope you are having a great weekend.
Well we survived the Google Reader shutdown. I see we can still get the latest updates of the blogs we follow. I guess I went into panic mode but I don't regret taking the safe and sure route and I will keep using Bloglovin and well as Google Blogger. I have new followers on Bloglovin and I like searching for other blogs on their site. In any event, onwards we go...
My swap parcel for Jazzi's Christmas in July swap is finally winging its way to Manu in Italy. It was a relief to finally post it. This is my first miniatures swap and I was unsure if I had done enough and if it was good enough, but finally I just decided I needed to get it posted or it would miss the 31 July deadline to reach Manu.
Further on the swap news, Manu's parcel arrived in my letterbox. I couldn't get inside quick enough to open it and I will tell you I am thrilled with the lovely items Manu has made. However, I am going to make you all wait to see what she sent - mean aren't I! I have asked Manu to let me know when she gets my parcel and then I will do an entry on both the items I received from Manu and the items I sent Manu.
So, as my focus has been on the swap items, I don't really have anything for show and tell. However I did find this photo I took a few months ago when I was sorting through my miniatures. I had an idea to take a photo of some stoves on a stove.
Just between you and me, I'm not really a cook, and the miniature stoves probably get as much attention from me as the full sized one. Just as well my husband is a good cook!
Cara Sharee, sono contenta dell'arrivo del pacchetto e ora sono curiosa che arrivi il tuo e potremo postare!Grazie ancora della tua e-mail a cui ho risposto. Bellissime le tue cucine, mi piace molto quella bianca. Abbracci.
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Oh, you made us all soooooo curious to see what gifts you have made for Manu and what you received from her ;)! I am afraid we'll have to wait......:D!
ReplyDeleteYour collection of stoves is gorgeous, there are so many there on your 1:1 scale stove!
Have a great weekend!
Hugs, Ilona
I love, LOVE the stoves on stoves shot! You really do have a wonderful collection of little cookery ;)
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You have an amazing collection of stoves!
ReplyDeleteThose stoves are great! I would love to have similar ones in real size! :) ... or mini size! :)
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Thanks for your comments. After taking this photo I found another couple of stoves tucked amongst my miniatures. This could be an interesting series of photos. How about a photo of some mini chairs on a chair, miniature shoes sitting on a shoe.... I promise I will reveal swap items once I know Manu has received my parcel.
ReplyDeleteHi Sharee! I LOVE your stove collection on top of the stove! I am like you about cooking.... but get most of my meals where I work... it is a boarding school, but I go home on the weekends and have to cook occasionally! I have the same cast iron cookstove that you show in front... got it when I was young... it is a tiny bit large for the true 1:12 scale, but I love the old fashioned feel to it. I also have the same stove you show on the front right... in my Folly kitchen... I look forward to seeing your stoves in your dollhouses! I always find it fascinating how there is a variance in the size of 1:12 scale items.... sometimes they are just right for a smaller home... sometimes they look terribly out of scale!
ReplyDeleteGreat that you get fed in a boarding school. I worked for about a year in a boarding school kitchen in the evenings, dishing up for the boys and cleaning up afterwards (a second job when I was saving up for my first overseas trip). I have never been fed so well. I know what you mean by scales being all over the place. The little stove like the one in your folly I bought for a specific project and when it arrived it was too small. It is a lovely stove though and I am sure I will find a good home for it in one of my future projects.
DeleteHi Sharee! I love your stove collection too and isn't it funny just how many of certain items we seem to accumulate and yet never seem to have the one that we need for the project that we are doing? I hunt and gather more than I will ever need and yet never have enough!? What up with that? I have determined to make my next stove for the ARTHUR kitchen and so I am hunting and gathering information now. I nearly began making it incorrectly and then decided to investigate and found that I didn't know enough about the whys and the wherefores. Now Everything is as stalled as before. But I digress. Your parcel must have been a happy surprise and now you have got us all curious, sitting on the edges of our seats! I guess there is no choice and that we will just Have to Wait!
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I think the fun is often in the hunt Elizabeth. I too hunt and gather more than I will ever need, although then again I never seem to have that certain something I need and therefore I need to hunt some more.. and so it goes on! I look forward to seeing the stove you make. I want to make an old Victorian stove for my vintage house 'The Laurels', because nothing I have bought so far looks right. I'm thinking I might use matt board as a base and work from there.
DeleteNice stoves - great picture too - Clever! I have a few of those too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Troy. My collection has come about by accident really largely through purchasing stoves that turned out wrong for the intended space, hence a huddle of them on my craftroom shelves. I've found a couple more since. I do like to see them grouped together though.
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