Christmas and my new Etsy Shop

It has been a while since my last post.. But now I am back! I have had so much fun creating miniatures for Christmas and I am starting to really feel an cozy Christmas atmosphere!

And I also have some exciting news! Fist of all... I am going to become a mother in February :) ! It is really amazing that there will be a little one in our home in about two months <3 !

... And secondly I finally have opened an Etsy store! Its very exciting and now I just hold my thumbs, that peaople will find it and like my miniatures. Right now I have stated to fill it with my newly created Christmas miniatures!

Here are some of them:

They are available in my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MiniatureChef 

For more photos visit my Etsy shop or my Flickr!

I hope you all will have a wonderful and cozy Cristmas!

A sneak peak at my Tennyson dollhouse

These last months I have been working a lot so I haven't had time to update my blog, but here comes a sneak peak at my ongoing project, the Tennyson dollhouse.

I have made roof shingles from egg carton and glued them to my porch roof, I then used different shades och gray when I painted them. Now I "only" have to make roof shingles for the rest of the house roof.... I will need a lot of egg cartons ..So there will be a lot of omelets ;)

I think that the miniatures are the most fun to do so I started to do them even though there is much left to do on the building's exterior. Here is a tiny birdhouse made in clay (my favorite medium) which I then painted and aged. Then I also made the religieuse pastries, which was fun to make. The white flowers are made by Michelle in Greece, they are so beautiful! I only painted the pot so it would fit in my color theme.

In a few days I will have more photos to post here!

I also want to welcome all new blog followers, hope you will enjoy your visits to my blog!

Have a nice weekend, Hanna

And the winners are...

It is time to draw the winners for my give away! I am so thrilled to give something back to you all, but there can only be one winner for the first price and one winner for the second price....

...So I put every participant in a list with numbers and used the random number generator at random.org ..and I hit enter...

The winner of my first rustic board with handmade delicates...

...Is 57. Josje at A Beautiful World - Josje´s World of Miniatures

And the winner of my second rustic board with handmade delicates ....

Is 9. Britt at Britts Virk och Miniatyrblogg

Congratulations Josje and Britt!! Please email me your full names and addresses and I will send you your miniature sets!!

I would so much have wanted to give all of you something, but there will be more give aways from me since this was so fun!

Now I will go out and enjoy our sunny weather here in Sweden! Have a nice Sunday!

~Hanna~

Give away update!

I am so happy that so many have joined the give away, and that my blog now have 312 followers! And I appreciate your wonderful comments and compliments... So I decided I would make this rustic board with delicates as a second price in my give away, now you can win either the first board or this board.

The give away is open until the end of the day on 14th may and I will announce the winner for the first and second price on Sunday. To join the give away you only need to leave a comment on this post (or the first one about the give away) and be a follower.

If you have joined the give away at my first post, you will automatically be entered for the second price to.

Good luck everyone and have a nice weekend!

Hanna

BIG & small

First of all I would like to say that I am so happy that so many have joined the give away! I read every comment and really appreciate them and all followers... now you are 274!!

A warm welcome to all of you who are new followers!

Here is what I have been up to reccently, some of you have already seen them over at Linda Carswells blog. I have always thought it is fun to take photos of my miniatures together with their life size counterparts... So here is my citrus I made for Linda on life sized peel and my tiny grapes on a life sized grape, hope you like them!

Mini Hugs

Hanna

My first give away!

It is time for my first give away!! I am so happy that we can share this wonderful art form and when I started this blog I would never had thought that I would get this many follower as I got today, right now 195 followers!

So now I would like to give something back to you! What you can win is this rustic board with delicates, all handmade by me. I have spend many hours on them to make them as detailed as I can, hope you like them.

To participate in this give away you only need to:

1, Be a follower of my blog.

2, Leave a comment on this post to let me now you want to participate in the draw.

If you feel like it, put a picture of the give away in your sidebar at your blog, I would be very grateful.

I will draw the winner at 14th may!

Good luck everyone!

Hanna

Happy Easter! ~ Glad Påsk!

I would just like to say welcome to my new blog readers, hope you all will enjoy your visits here!

And also I wish all of you out there will have a Happy Easter!

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Jag vill välkomna alla nya som följer min blog, hoppas ni ska ska få inspirerande besök här.

Sedan önksar jag alla en riktigt Glad Påsk!

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Hanna

A package with treasures

Today I got a package from Greece with stunning miniature flowers that Michelle at http://littlerabbitminis.blogspot.com made! I won them last week in her giveaway, isn´t they amazing! They are even more beautiful than in the picture an will look just perfect in front of my Tennyson dollhouse

Other than that I have been busy working on miniature orders, mostly fruits and a giveaway of my own. I haven´t finished it yet but I think I will soon...

Some of my little packages traveling in the world :)

Take care

^^ Hanna

Baking miniatures

Here is my latest minis, cupcakes! I love to experiment with the textures in miniature food and this set gave me a lot of fun!

As you can see on the picture below the cupcakes are pretty tiny and a couple of times when I worked with them they fell from my table... before they got in the oven, now that is a test for even the most patient person! Luckily I could finish them at the end.

I also experimented with different backgrounds when I took the photos, the first photo here is with a picture of a kitchen in a magazine as background, what do you think about it?

I like the effect but I didn't got a good contrast in the photo.

Mini hugs

~Hanna~

Golden butter bundt cake & cherries ~ Gyllene sockerkaka & körsbär

This is the latest of my miniature creations, a golden butter bundt cake filled with cherries and a tiny chocolate heart. It was so fun to make and I think I got the color right which makes a world of difference in miniature food. I also make a few servings, have a bite!

One thing is a bit tricky though... to take the photos in the right light so that they wont get overexposed. When I got more time I am thinking of building a light box and experiment a bit more with my photographs.

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det här är min senaste miniatyr, en gyllene

sockerka fylld med körsbär och ett chokladhjärta. Det var roligt att göra den och jag

tror jag fick till färgen rätt, vilken gör en enorm

skillnad för miniatyr mat.

Sedan gjorde jag även

några upplagda skivor av sockerkakan, have a bite :)

I would like to welcome all my latest new blog reader and I hope you all will have a nice weekend!

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Sen vill jag hälsa alla nya blog läsare här välkomna!

Ha en bra helg allihop!

Valentine´s day chocolates and one year older!

This weekend I got time to finish these Valentine´s day chocolates and boxes. To be my firsts I like the result and the chocolates where so fun to make!

Now I really feel for some real chocolate :) Luckily for me I have a really good metabolism and never gets heavier even if I love sweets!

The last two day´s my sister and her lovely kids

have visited me to celebrate my birthday! We have had a lot of fun and even got time to visit a museum here in Gothenburg (with thousands of stuffed animals) , the kids was so excited and ran around looking at everything. Then we made a tasty vanilla sponge cake with raspberries and whipped cream! A very nice birthday indeed!

Hugs

~Hanna~

My Tennyson

I remembered that I promised to show my Tennyson doll house, so here is some pictures! I have built the fist and second floor here and painted the window trims for the inside walls.

And here my Tennyson starts to look like a house. I am thinking of using a withe color for the walls and lavender lilac and light blue for the trims and porch. I am also going to give the house a dark grey stone foundation and grey tiles to the roof. Theres a lot to to and sometimes I wish I had a couple of weeks free from studies to only work on my Tennyson and on new miniatures!

Last but not least I missed to show you guys my little gingerbread house for Christmas. It is all made in polymer clay and the tiny non-stops (a Swedish brand like m & m's) took a while to make :)

Right now I am also working on some valentine miniature sweets which makes my mouth watering (: I will show them in my next post here.

Have a nice weekend and take care!

~Hanna~