Showing posts with label Nostalgia In Miniature Workshop.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nostalgia In Miniature Workshop.. 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, 19 November 2013

Haddenham Dolls House Exhibition Is On This Saturday-Hope You Can Come!

KT Miniatures will be attending the Haddenham Dolls House Exhibition this Saturday (23rd November). 

Haddenham Dolls House Exhibition
Haddenham Village Hall, Bucks, HP17 8EE 
10.00am - 4.00pm
Admission £4.00 Adult/£1.00 Child

All of the admission fee will be split between two charities - Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and Leukaemia Research. Organisers George and Freda Dorrell have been running this event now for many years but sadly this will be their very last, so we hope that lots of you can come along to Haddenham Village Hall on Saturday and enjoy the lovely miniatures whilst at the same time, help raise lots of money for two real worthwhile causes!

There will be various exhibits from four local dolls house clubs and individuals, several artisans with miniatures to buy, other exhibits (even a rather wonderful Lego railway), charity tables including a raffle plus there will be a sealed bid auction of a beautiful 32" long dolls house decorated by James Parker (as seen in Dolls House & Miniature Scene magazine I understand). 

KT Miniatures will be there (of course), with most of my handmade items as currently seen on KT Miniatures website, plus in addition I am taking an abundance of antique and vintage stock that currently does not appear on KT Minitatures website! Have taken a few photos so that you can have a sneak preview of just some of the old items that will be available on the day.
Amongst them is an early 1900s pressed German sideboard, an early 1900s fretwork display cabinet with contents, 1930s German metal sewing machine, unusual wooden radiator, bisque German dolls, clocks of various descriptions, old tea set, some T&B items such as cooker, fridge, saucepan set and some 1930s  Pit-a-Pat furniture.
There will also be some vintage Barton Tudor, Tri-ang and Twigg furniture from the 1960s. 
Further more, there will be a small scale early 1900s sink,  toilet and decorative table, antique fenders....plus lots more besides! Oh....and a couple of boxes filled to the brim with random vintage miniatures for you to have a good old rummage through to your hearts content, all at bargain prices!

I will be taking at least one old dolls house to sell, this 1930s Dolly Mixture Dolls House. 
  
Just look at those wonderful square paned pre-war Romside windows with the rod hinges down the sides! However, as I'm only having a 6ft stand (unlike the Thame Fair where I have a 12ft stand), space will be limited. If I can fit another dolls house in the car and behind my stand, I will do so.


Nostalgia In Miniature Workshops Display
A view of various projects from "Our Little Garden Theme".
Robin Britton (Coombe Crafts) and I shall also have a display of all our Nostalgia In Miniature Workshops' projects to date, in both 1/12th and 1/24th scales for you to see in all their glory.  We will also be taking our Seaside Scene which as you know, was featured in the Dolls House & Miniature Scene magazine throughout the summer as a "how to make" project, and is now up for sale (50% of proceeds to be donated to Breast Cancer Campaign)...offers welcome on the day. Would make a very special Christmas present for someone!
Plus we shall have news of our Spring Workshop including details of a brand new and very exciting workshop venue! This display will be situated in between both Coombe Crafts and KT Miniatures stands so both of us will be on hand throughout the day if you would like to know more about our workshops. 

As already mentioned before, Haddenham has it's own train station just 15 mins walk from the village hall. Thame is only 2 miles away and Aylesbury approx 5 miles away. 

Hope you can come and help make Saturday's event a very special day indeed..... and if you do come, please do drop by KT Miniatures and say "hi"! Would be great to see you....I shall be on my own (my usual little helper is now at uni' having an absolute ball!!!!lol)

Latest Dolls House & Miniature Scene Magazine Online WW1 Project
Lucie Roper, editor of DHMS magazine has asked me to tell you all that another WW1 project is now available to view on the following link: