I'm back in town

First of all, Happy New Year! I know, January is almost over, but it's better late than never. So I had a very restful holiday in December and the Christmas was wonderful. I have to admit I was a little bit tired of all the miniatures I had made for the Christmas rush, and it began to affect my mood. My husband said it was time to cut all ties to the miniature world for at least two weeks to charge my batteries. First I was sceptical if I could bear it for such a long time, but it was really helpful. I played with the kids, read a lot and there were many rounds of Carcassone (strategic board game) with my husband at late night. Of course I spent the first two weeks of January only with catching up, and now at last I have time for blogging, too.
I show you some of my latest works, all types of food as always.

These are not miniatures, though they are not average sized either. My daughters are always the shortest in their class, like I was, too. (I'm still very short and I have no hope to get any taller in this life.) I made some good photos about the kids and had the best ones printed onto canvas. They were my Christmas presents for my husband. Absolute success! Now they are on our "famous" red wall of the living room.

Some ramblings again

I'm a little bit depressed. We barely can see the sun these days, the lights are on in my workroom all the day and there are days when I can't make a decent photo about my minis (Taking photos using artificial lights is absolutely not my territory! Shame on me, I should have learnt it years ago...) So I try to cheer myself up by constantly change the theme. (The Christmas topic a little bit worn me out.) Here are my latest babies. Maybe you don't believe it, but the plum cake was the most challenging. I formed and colored all the plum pieces one by one and baked them before pushing them into the "dough". I think the simplest the real food the hardest for you to make it realistic in miniature scale.

Fruits

My favorites from last week.

Christmas shortbread galore

Sorry for my long absence, I'm really busy nowadays. I made a lot of various miniatures in the last weeks, but now I want to show you my shortbread assortments. There are some gingerbreads, too among the shortbreads.

Evidences

For the doubters... I swear they are not created by Photoshop! (I'm not that good. In Photoshop, I mean.)

Playing by ear

I have to admit, there was no any system in my work the last few weeks. I just surfed on the net looking for pictures in my style, then made whatever took my fancy. This way it never gets boring. Mostly the food is that catches my attention, but sometimes an old tray, a chipped bowl or a wooden board with quaint shape started my imagination. Of course I'm aware of the impending Christmas time, so in the next months I will make a lot of gingerbread items and other Christmas related miniatures, but these pictures are about my rambling.