Friday 5 November 2010

Aged Bookcase Filled With Books-Raffle Donation

Well ....at long last I am pleased to say that I have been able to get down to making a donation for the Breast Cancer Campaign Raffle, which is taking place next February at Thame Dolls House & Miniatures Fair.

It is an aged wooden bookcase in 1/12th scale, the sort that I have been making for years based on a real 1930s piece of furniture....but the difference is that amongst some of my regular mini books, I have a whole set of 22 mini vintage books fixed on here that you won't have seen before! These replicas of pre-war books I have been able to create from a whole bundle of real life sized vintage books that were specially loaned to me by a great friend. (Thank you Robin!) The bookcase stands at 3 1/2" high and is just 1 3/4" wide, in an aged dark wooden finish - typical of the 1930s.

Very shortly I will be putting up for sale three bookcases similar to the above on KT Miniatures, all in 1/12th scale plus have several other projects with vintage books in the pipeline....watch this space...as they say!

To see the updated page of some of the wonderful raffle prizes already donated to the Breast Cancer Campaign Raffle go to http://www.ktminiatures.com/Raffle.html

5 comments:

Robin said...

I can't tell you how exciting it was to see our books transformed! They really are exceptional, and they look wonderful in this super bookcase.
Rx
p.s....we have more books......

Jean Tuthill said...

This is simply amazing....Good job!

Rick said...

That is fantastic! It looks just like the real thing!

christine said...

wonderful.. and such a good cause!!

KT Miniatures said...

Thanks for your comments everyone. Yes Christine.....the Breast Cancer Campaign certainly is a great cause. We have some amazing prizes already come in for the charity raffle. Celia