At Last...A Spot Of Creating & Fantastic Workshop News!

With Thame Dolls House & Miniatures Fair less than 5 weeks away now, am relieved to say that at long last I've been able to get down to a touch of creating!

Followers of KT Miniatures' website will have seen that at the beginning of the year I did away with my old Exclusive Handmade Items Section...and replaced it with KT Miniatures Little Handmade Emporium. Interest has been rather lovely these past couple of weeks, I've been kept well and truly on my toes and already stock is a little slimmer. However, with the big Thame Fair event looming on the calendar, it does mean that as always this time of year,  ALL handmade stock will have to be held back for Thame Fair stock. I am planning on listing some more vintage dolls house items to the website in January but again, the bulk of vintage stock will also have to be held back for the fair. (This is why I rarely undertake fairs nowadays - I have to really go some to obtain/make enough stock for a fair stand, so Thame Dolls House Fair is really the only one I attend now).

Today I have been creating more of my vintage 1930s style packaging and shelving for the scullery. These have been designed to look old and authentic so can be used in both vintage and modern reproduction dolls houses.

And....here is the beginning of a few bits and bobs made for an old attic....

Any completed  items will be put aside for Thame Fair Stock.
If you click on the following link: Thame Dolls House Fair you will find all the information you need.....hope you can come! The date for your diary is Saturday 21st February and it will be taking place at Thame Leisure Centre, Oxfordshire.

Meanwhile, if you are interested in seeing what is currently available in KT Miniatures Little Handmade Emporium, please CLICK HERE.


And now, news of our June Workshops....

The Little Vintage Toy Shop Workshop

There was an unprecedented amount of names added to the June Workshop Reserve List, in the run up to Christmas.  This left us with a logistical problem as there were so many, but what a lovely problem to have!! In the end my workshop colleague Robin and I decided to run this workshop twice in June.....on Saturday 13th & 20th. Invitations went out to all the people on the Reserve List at the beginning of January and uptake of those priority places was huge, so that by the time booking went live officially yesterday morning, the first workshop had already been filled and there were only 2 remaining places for the second workshop. By mid-afternoon, all places were filled.

Therefore, we are considering running this same workshop for a third time on Saturday 19th September, but only if there is enough interest to warrant running this again.

If you would like to add your name to our 
SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP RESERVE LIST, 
please get in touch with either Robin or myself asap. All information with regards to the workshop and our contact details can be found on our 
Nostalgia In Miniature Workshops Website.

New Beginnings......KT Miniatures Little Handmade Emporium!

First up....Happy New Year to you all. 

I hope you've had a wonderful time over the festive period - we certainly have here.  But now all trace of Christmas has been cleared away for another year and it is with great pleasure to deem KT Miniatures open for business once more. Is hard to grasp that as we enter 2015, KT Miniatures is now in it's 19th year of trading!! It only seems like yesterday that I' d started creating tiny miniatures off my kitchen table to sell but here we are, all these years later...and am still loving every single minute!

However, 2014 in the end proved quite a memorable year in many ways with lots happening. My working practices have changed so much just lately due to simply not having enough hours in the day, that the Exclusive Handmade Items section had become quite static.  With so many pages within that part of the website to maintain....it made sense to move into a slightly different direction once more. So......I have bid a fond farewell to the many Exclusive Handmade Items pages and instead, offer you  a warm welcome to step inside my....

KT Miniatures Little Handmade Emporium! 

It has a Ground Floor & Upper Floor of handmade items that I have purposely created to look old, so can be used in both vintage and modern reproduction dolls houses, with a particular focus on the 1930s and 1940s eras.

So please...click on the following link and step right inside:

KT Miniatures Little Handmade Emporium

CeliaX
PS. I hope to begin listing more vintage items from Marion Osborne's Dol-Toi and Tri-ang Collections later this week. 
www.ktminiatures.com

KT Miniatures Has Now Closed For The Festive Season....

KT MINIATURES IS NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS UNTIL JANUARY 2nd 2015

With KT Miniatures' 18th year of trading coming to an end, and a 19th year of trading looming....it is time once again to evaluate and reflect on how this year has been and more importantly, plan for next year.   

  

THE PAST YEAR 

Am delighted to say that business has been brilliant this past year, even completely bonkers at times but I have loved every single minute.  I hope that KT Miniatures or even just this KT Miniatures Journal has brought a little bit of enjoyment into your tiny dolls house and miniature world too!  

CHANGES AHEAD 

As time has progressed, it has become clearly apparent that there has been a very real shift in KT Miniatures' working practice where creating time for the website's "Exclusive Handmade Items Section" has become hugely limited. Consequently that part of the website has become quite static of late so there is a definite need once more to give KT Miniatures a gentle nudge on a slightly different path on how this side of the business is to be organised.  I hope to implement some real positive changes early in the new year but more about that another day.....  

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY  

 Saturday 21st February 2015

 ThameDolls House Fair 

KT Miniatures will be exhibiting at this Oxfordshire annual event, as always.

MR KT MINIATURES

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to send messages with regards to Mr KT Miniatures - the latest is that although he is still rather poorly he is back home from hospital once more and being well looked after. It is unusual for me to close so early before Xmas but due to the ever changing ongoing events here just at the moment with Mr KT, he has to be my priority.  Any orders that come in whilst I am closed will be dealt with at the beginning of January.

AND FINALLY....

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for your custom and wonderful friendship throughout this year, and wish you all

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM KT MINIATURES!

From 

CeliaX

Celia Thomas

www.ktminiatures.com 

Website Back Up & Running This Morning...

Hmmm...for most of last night, both KT Miniatures and our Nostalgia In Miniature Workshops websites were completely offline. I can only apologise to those of you who may have found this frustrating but this was completely out of my control. As I was quietly panicking last night, I finally discovered that apparently my website host 1&1 were under a massive DDos attack yesterday so in the end, they shut their whole system down- resulting in 1000's of websites everywhere going offline last night - so I was in good company!!! All I could do was sit and wait but this morning, fingers and everything crossed - all seems to be back up as normal. Modern technology eh....is great as long as it works!

PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL BE CLOSING ON SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER FOR XMAS

CeliaX

KT Miniatures Closing For Xmas In Just 4 Days...So Please Place Your Xmas Order Now To Avoid Disappointment!

First up.......many thanks to absolutely everyone for your lovely messages both private and on here with regards to Mr KT Miniatures. You are all such a lovely supportive lot and have cheered me up no end! The latest news is that he has been in and out of hospital again since my last posting on here and is now proper poorly but I managed to put some rather lovely miniatures up on the website last week.....and although most were snapped up almost immediately, I will still highlight them on here for you, as I thought you may enjoy seeing the photos. 

However, at the moment of writing this, the lovely little miniature pug dog seen above is still looking for a new owner.....he is believed to be a c1910 cold painted bronze Viennese pug dog on a brass stand. I have never seen or handled anything quite like this before so have had to do a bit of research.

It did come along with some very old turn of the century antique dolls house items many months ago now and it would look fantastic in an antique dolls house....maybe in a grand hallway, corner of a drawing room or even standing outside a front door?

Ot it may make an unusual Xmas present for a miniature dog lover? From the base of the stand to the top of his ears, it measures 1 3/4" high...so quite small.
He can be found on the following page:
http://ktminiatures.com/Antique_Vintage_General.html

And now for something truly delightful....needless to say this was snapped up immediately it went up for sale....

 

 A circa 1920s/30s dolls house aquarium.......the celluloid stand has a real Art Deco style to it. If you look carefully you may just spot the tiny red fish in the far right hand side, peeping out from behind! The stand is embellished with tiny shells-very pretty.

As you can see from the photo above, this has a label on the back from the famous Charles Morrell toy shop of the Burlington Arcade....so this is quite something and rare indeed!  I have not been able to find out who the maker was but this is extremely well made from a high quality artisan.Truly stunning - I think you will agree!

Then there were these two little plaster Toby jugs made by Kaybot/Kays - now becoming more difficult to get hold of in good condition. Because they were made of plaster, in young hands plaster dolls house items were prone to breakages....but these two little beauties were in immaculate condition.

Unsurprisingly, both of these were snapped up immediately they went up for sale but I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.

Ok folks....please note I will be closing earlier than normal for this time of year (for obvious reasons), in just four days time on

Saturday 13th December

Therefore....please tell Santa to put your Xmas order in before Saturday now to avoid disappointment.
Many thanks
Celia
PS. At the time of writing this posting...I do have plenty of Marion Osborne books in stock if anyone was still thinking of placing an order for any of these.