Showing posts with label Bicester Avenue Garden Centre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bicester Avenue Garden Centre. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 August 2014

Would You Like To Come To Our Next Workshop?

Saturday 27th September 2014
At Bicester Avenue Garden Centre
10.30am - 4.30pm
With just a limited amount of spaces left available for our September workshop and just three weeks to go before booking will be closing, do take a look at the following pics and let us know asap. if we can tempt you into joining us for a wonderful creative day! This little project has been designed to stand alone or sit alongside your old dolls house. 

Maybe you are a vintage dolls house collector, never having ventured or even considered the creative side of the miniature hobby before....how fantastic this could look alongside an old dolls house! Our workshops are relaxed, informal, fun and friendly, you simply work at your own pace with our guidance.
With this project, we shall be making a unique nostalgic herb garden, complete with old pavers, Victorian style rope edging, quarry tiles, old bricks plus umpteen variations of our own cottage garden herbs made from a variety of materials....some which may surprise you! 
  Amongst some of the many herbs included are comfrey, lungwort, different thymes, chives, parsley, lavender and even a bay tree in a wonderful decorative planter! Plus we have included other plants too such as a climbing rose on tripod  and even some chard...and each attendee will be given a hand blown glass cloche made especially for us by UK artisan - Ray Storey.
This particular project is quite unique and potentially quite versatile, so you will be able to adapt the layout to suit your own needs. We will give you more than enough materials in your kit for you to experiment, plus the know how and further ideas to inspire you to push your creative talents as far as you want.  Even if you have been to our workshops before, we will be using some very different techniques and innovative ideas to inspire as always. 
Then of course there is the rickety old garden gate complete with rusty old bolt, right at the far end, set into the low stone wall. 
 For this particular project, we would recommend the 1/12th scale as the  herb leaves really are weeny and fiddly but if you are experienced and up for a challenge then you may like to have a go with the 1/24th scale. Those of you who came to the Spring Workshop, will recognise the stone wall....but don't worry, this is much smaller and far less time consuming to make compared to that one...in fact, if you really wanted, you could make the little wall at home, therefore leaving you to concentrate on the planting and landscaping at the actual workshop instead.

 If after reading this, you may have been tempted, please get in touch with me here at KT Miniatures or Robin my workshop colleague asap, in order to reserve a space. We would love to hear from you and please do not hesitate to ask questions if you need more information.

My email address is: 
Tel: 01844 212520

Robin's email address is:
 
 We can possibly accept one group booking for this workshop...so if there is a group of four or more of you who would like to come, please do get in touch asap.

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Booking Now Open For Brand New Autumn Workshop!

Last Saturday's Spring Workshop at Bicester Avenue Garden Centre was a great success and good fun. Lucie Roper, editor of Dolls House & Miniatures Scene magazine joined us for the day too and you will be able to read her write up of how she got on in the August 2014 issue (available June 26th).

To view lots of photos and read all about it, please do go take a peek at our Nostalgia In Miniature Workshops blog on miniatureworkshops.blogspot.co.uk.

Meanwhile, full details of our Autumn Workshop are now live on our workshop website and am delighted to say that booking is now...
OPEN!

Down The Little Old Herb Garden Path Workshop

This will be one rather lovely miniature herb garden as never seen before....completely unique, brimming with nostalgia and vintage character!! The little scene as always with our projects, is being offered in both 1/12th and 1/24th scale, can stand alone or sit alongside a dolls house....even a vintage dolls house!

 For full details, including a downloadable booking form, please see promotional page on our Nostalgia In Miniature Workshop website:

If you would like to reserve a place, please don't hesitate to contact us asap as spaces are limited.
Celia

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Round The Back Of The Old Gardener's Cottage!

BOOKING NOW OPEN!

ROUND THE BACK OF THE OLD GARDENER'S COTTAGE WORKSHOP
Here is a video of our next workshop project, a unique and nostalgic scene of an old gardener's backyard. Everything you see in the video, we will be making including the old water carrier, old stone back wall, tiled overhang, poppy strewn grass verge, old console table, dilapidated post and wire fence, etc.! You can see the project here in 1/12th scale, however we are also offering this project in 1/24th scale too.

This workshop will be taking place on  
Saturday 26th April 2014 
 at a brand new venue... 
Bicester Avenue Garden Centre 
 just off Junction 9 of the M40. Loads of space, ample free parking and lots of other shops within the Bicester Avenue Home, Garden and Leisure Shopping Centre too!

Booking has now opened but if you would like to come, please get in touch asap as spaces are already filling fast!