Into the garden...

I'm still here, just a little bit engaged. There were some birthdays in my family, Easter, springbreak, garden works and many orders, thanks to you! Now I try to make a still life scene again, with a garden theme. This mosaic table will be the base for all. Making the mosaic pattern was very (VERY) time consuming, but it was worth the extra work. I used thin, baked fimo sheets for the pattern. I will add a garden breakfast tray onto the table with some flowers. This miniature scene would be the part of a magazine article, which I was asked to make some miniature summer food for. It's not a miniature themed magazin, since there isn't any like this in Hungary, but a gastronomical issue. But I think, it doesn't matter at all! So I'm absolutely in a fever. I want to make no less than the most amazing miniatures I've ever made.

Bakery basket

Now only the photos...

White and shabby

Sometimes I find an inspiring photo on the net and after that a new miniature is born in my workroom. This is the history of this shabby white sideboard, too. I spent a lot of time to plan all the fine details and far more time to build and paint it. Sorry, the drawers and doors are still only fake ones, but I made a resolution, the next piece will be a functional furniture. Well, making perfectly fitting doors and drawers will be a very hard challenge, not to mention producing my own miniature hinges! But life would be so boring without hard tasks!

And why shabby again? I have a bizarre affection for the used and shabby and rusty old things, like this sideboard and the watering cans I also made this week.

A very good book...

...and a very talented man! One of my friend, László Adóba is a hungarian modell builder. He had made two manual books about modelling and this week his third book was published. The two old ones - Let's build a diorama I. - Urban scenes and Let's build a diorama II. - Terrain and vegetation - are available in english, too, but the new book only in hungarian. I hope they translate it soonly, so everybody can admire his unique skills!

The third book is about stone items, and the photos are from this. Simply outstanding works! He works in 1:35 scale and used mostly the cheapest materials and tools you can find even at home.

Easter cake and gingerbreads

Very very short time preparing for Easter! Now I show you a two-tiered cake with marcipan bunny and eggs and two gingerbread eggs with white decoration. It seems I can't stop making written gingerbreads even two months after Christmas! Luckily for me there is an occasion to make gingerbreads all over the year!  

These are available on my etsy shop.

My Danishes

My bakery is working all day! This my Danish collection. Some of the names are my own fantasy creation.

Plum branch

After the cherry branch I tried to develop my technique. I made a more complicated wire base for the branch and applicated more leaves onto it.