Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! Here in Sweden the snow never seems to stop falling, the lanskape which I see from my window is magic and sparcly white! But it is only enjoyable if one stays inside ;) ... it´s blowing up to storm.

I have had a wonderful Christmas, which I spent with my family!

Here is a miniature toasted turkey I made to celebrate.

Merry Christmas!
~Hanna~

Princess pastries

Hi everybody! Sorry that it has gone so long since my last post. I have so much in scool right now, and with Christmas coming up soon (: I do really love Christmas!

here are some minis I have made! These are the Swedish well known Princess pastries. It is made with green marzipan on top and wipped cream, strawberry jam and vanilla custard as filling. When it is made as a cake it is known as Prinsess tårta.

Take care and enjoy the oncoming Christmas!

~Hanna~

Me on national TV - Jag på nationell TV

At this site, link , you can see me in the TV program Philofix, where I make a miniature banana in fimo! It is about in the middle of the program :)

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För ca ett år sedan spelade jag in ett avsnitt i programmet Philofix, där jag gör miniatyrer. Ni kan hitta klippet på den här länken Mitt bidrag är ungefär i mitten av programmet :)

När jag spelade in det här, spelade jag även in när jag gör en cheese-cake och visar upp olika tittskåp, men tyvärr har de inte med det i programmet, det kanske kommer i ett senare program.

/Mini hugs

Hanna

Featured in the Miniature Way Magazine

Today the October issue of The Miniature way is published, So I sat down to enjoy the magazine with a cup of coffee ...and they have

featured my miniature work!

And they also published my miniature peeled orange tutorial :) I am happy and very flattered!

Here is a link to the article about me and my

miniature work : The Miniature Way

And a link to my tutorial, making miniature peeled oranges: Tutorial

Here is some photos of my work from the articles:

Mini Hugs,

Hanna

Blueberry pastries

Here is some blueberry pastries with whipped cream that I have made. Now I only wish they where in scale 1:1 and real (: ... I looove sweets! These are made in polymer clay and liquid fimo in 1:12 scale, they are about 1 cm in diameter.



Recently I also started a new project, I have finally started to build the doll-house from Greenleaf that I won in a competition at CDHM last Summer. It is the two storage Tennyson house and I will try to take photos of the ongoing project and share it with you!



So I will show both my miniature food and my building and decorating project here from now on :)

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I also want to welcome my newest blog readers, hope you will enjoy my blog !


Hugs, Hanna

Flowery Wonky cake

I think wonky cakes are so wonderful, and not very common in Sweden! Here is a miniature flowery Wonky cake I made. The tiny flowers took ages to make... I don´t have any mini cookie cutters so they all are sculpted painfully individually (: But I like the result and wouldn't mind having this cake for my birthday in real size!


This miniature wonky cake is available in my CDHM-gallery:
My gallery

Last sumer days

How fast the time pases by! I have been very busy lately with studies and miniatures, this Saturday I will teach a class over at CDHM on how to make peeled miniature oranges with peels!

Here is a watermelon board with a lasting summer feeling. Looking out of my window I can´t keep from wondering if the last summer days is over... I can even see some yellow leafs falling! But looking on the bright side, I love those autumn days when one can stay inside, watching a good movie with a cup of tea and good companionship. Or creating new miniature pieces without having a bad conscience about missing the warm sunny weather outside!

~Hanna~

Ruhbarb Pie

One of my favorite desserts is Ruhbarb Pie, I love the fresh taste of the rhubard in combination with sweet vanilla sause!

Well I haven´t actually eaten this for a long time, since I try to not eat to much sweet stuff ;)


I bought the cooling rack not long ago, I love how delicate and real it looks! I think I must buy more of them to display cookies and bunt cakes on
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And a warm welcome to my newest blog folowers!

~Hanna~

Banana cream cake in the making

Here is a banana cream cake in the making!
I made the old fashioned bowl to and I think it turned out well to be one of my first.

For me this kind of cake brings back memories of my childhood birthdays.

My mum used to make either banana cream cake or strawberry cream cake :)


Do you have any special cakes or pastries which brings back your Childhood?
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All the best
Hanna

100 followers!

Today you all followers reached one hundred and I simply want to say that I really appreciate all comments and support you all give me! In short I will have a give away for you all!

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Idag blev alla som följer min blogg ett hundra jämt, och jag vill bara säga att jag uppskattar alla komentarer och stöd ni ger mig! Inom kort ska jag ha en give away här till er!

Another orange :)

This week I am visiting my family in Norrköping (in Sweden) and celebrating my little sisters 10th birthday! I have a nice suprise for her and I will post pictures later on (:

This is one of my orange sections I make, photografed before it was sent to the U.S. In August 21 I will have a class/tutorial at CDHM and teach how I make it, orange peels and whole oranges. If you are interested in joining this class you can sign up at: Custom Dolls, Houses and Miniatures

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Denna veckan är jag och hälsar på min familj i Norrköping och så firar jag min lillasyster som fyller 10 år! Jag har en miniatyrrelaterad överraskning till henne som jag får visa senare (:



På bilden är en av mina apelsinhalvor som jag gör, fottad innan den skickades till USA. I Augusti kommer jag hålla en klass/tutorial på CDHMs sida och lära ut hur jag gör dem, aplsinskal och hela apelsiner. Om du är intresserad av att delta kan du anmäla dig till klassen på:
Custom Dolls, Houses and Miniatures

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I also want to welcome my new blog followers, hope you will enjoy my blog! We are getting close to hundered (:

Cooking plums in miniature

Hello everybody! I am really longing for summer when I will have more time to spend on my miniatures, there are so many ideas waiting in line for me to make! Right now I am writing on my final exam in Sociology, but my mind constantly wanders away to new miniature ideas (:

Here is a commissioned work I made a while ago to a dear customer in the U.S where plums are being cooked, wonder what it is going to be.. jam perhaps ?

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Hej allihop! Jag längtar verkligen till sommaren då jag kommer ha mer tid till mina miniatyrer, jag har så många idéer som jag vill göra verklighet av! Just nu skriver jag på en slut tentamen i Sociologi, men mina tankar vandrar ständigt till miniatyrerna (:

Här är ett beställnings jobb jag gjorde för ett litet tag sen, där plommon kokandet är i full gång! ... undrar vad det ska bli för något gott, plommonsylt kanske?

Mini hugs

~Hanna~

A peak at my workspace

Here is my workspace! So now you now where all minatures are made (; I have got the half kitchen table! It is not a big problem, me and my husband often eat in the living room (: he don't mind since the miniatures makes me so happy and peaceful (:



I bought the organizer a while ago at a hardware chain. When I saw it at the shelve, I knew immediately that it would be perfect for my clay, tools and miniatures! It was the last one they had so I was really happy when I got it, It have solved a lot of problems and saved space for the kitchen table!




I also share my work space .... with my cat, Tiger! If he fails to take the chair before me in the morning, he always lies on my lap while I am sculpturing and he is so cute I cant lift him down!




Don´t you think he looks like he is surfing the internet :) ?

I also want to welcome all new blog readers, happy to have you here!!

~Hanna~

Donuts, Doughnuts, Munkar!

It is a lovely day here in Sweden, the sun is shining and the trees has started to bloom! I love the spring, it is so full of opportunity's and the summer lays ahead!

At this Sunday I attended a tutorial over at CDHM, where Stephanie Kilgast showed how to make donuts! This was lots of fun, and very addicting... ones started I did not want to stop! Here are my donuts (: (in Swedish called munkar)

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Det har varit en underbar dag här i Sverige, solen skiner och träden har börjat få grönska! Jag älskar verkligen våren, den är full av möjligheter och så ligger hela sommaren framför en!

Den här söndagen deltog jag i en tutorial på CHDM, där Stephanie Kilgast visade hur man gör munkar! Det var verkligen roligt och väldigt beroendeframkallande... när jag väl startat ville jag inte sluta! Här är mina munkar (:


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Of curse I couldent resist bying one donut for myself after focusing so hard on miniature donuts (: .... and it gave me the opportunity to take this picture

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Så klart kunde jag inte motstå att köpa en munk till mig med efter att ha fokuserat så länge på miniatyr munkar (: ..... och så gav den en möjliget till den här bilden



Donuts in all kinds of flavors, my favorite is the one to the right with vanilla icing and nuts ... wait someone has taken a bite of one (;

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Här är munkar i alla tänkbara smaker, min favorit är den med vit glasyr och nötter nere till höger .... vänta någon har tagit en tugga av en (;

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Mini Hugs
~Hanna~

Cupcakes, cake and cheesecake!

First of all, I would like to welcome all new blog-readers! I really appriciate all my readers, so I am planing to have a give away soon ( I am working on a something I think you would like!)

Finally I got time to photograph my latest miniatures! I made my first miniature cupcakes and loved to make them, so I will make a lot more of them! The bunny cupcake where ment to be a ester cupcake (: a little bit late though.. But I wanted to show it, sense I think it is cute (:

I also made a cheesecake toped with red currants, bananas, a orange slice and a star fruit, I only wished it where in real size! ( as you might have noticed, I love sweet stuff)

Last of all I made a easter themed cake with two layer of rich chocolate (:


Have a nice time in the spring-sun!
~Hanna~

Going bananas ^^

Here comes my latest miniatures, lately there have been a lot of bananas, which now is on their way to the other side of the world! Bananas has actually grown on me since I started making them in miniature, possibly as a result of all up close studying of them. I didnt really like them before but now I do, they are so creamy and has such a neat texture inside ^^ ! I also made the cutting board to look like marble, I made it by mixing different shades of gray ant putting the clay stripes together and then pulling and flattening the clay several times, I think the result is pretty OK for one of the first.


I have also made more breads, here is an basket with assorted breads. I am enjoying to work with the texture and color in them, there will definitely be more bread baking here! I am thinking about some corn breads and hole grain breads..

I am also working on two white chocolate cakes, one with easter theme and one romantic with red roses, now if there where only more time .. :)

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I would also like to thank Linda for her kind compliments about my miniatures and the blog adward she gave me!



Linda is a incredible talented miniature artist, she was honored with the fellow membership in IGMA november 2009, take a look at her blog at
www.linsminis.blogspot.com/

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And I would also like to welcome all new blog readers, thanks for taking a peak here!

Take care
~Hanna~

Some favorites of mine

These are some favorite of mine for a soft evening with my husband, so I thought I had to make them in miniature. I am pleased with how the baguette turned out, and these grapes. Its usually hard to get the color and transparency right in grapes, I use fimo transparent withe and mix it with green and then in the oven they always change color. So you have to count with the color-change and think ahead (:

I made the star fruit with caning technique and I tried to make the brie a bit creamy, in the way I like it (:

Here is a close up picture of the grapes on my finger tip, it shows how small they are:

I also want to welcome my new blog readers, hope you will like my blog!
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~Hanna~