All Set For Saturday....Plus A Few Garden Items Of A Miniature Kind!

All kits are complete, instructions are printed and everything's packed for our Round The Back Of The Old Gardener's Cottage Workshop on Saturday. We will be in the Conference Room at Bicester Avenue Garden Centre for the very first time and there is much excitement about this brand new venue.  Any member of the public visiting the garden centre restaurant on Saturday will be able to see us all in there (busy creating no doubt), as the entire wall at one end is basically one massive glass window. Haha....better make sure that we're all on our best behaviour then!

I've  managed to squeeze in a little bit of creativity this week...have made a few 1/12th scale vintage garden related miniatures for our Workshop Sales Table. Some of the vintage style bits and bobs can be seen in the above photos...all suitable to be used round the back of the old gardener's cottage! I have included some of my vintage looking cream/green enamelware too as they can look fantastic filled with plants. Any of these not sold on Saturday will then go up for sale on KT Miniatures website.

 Have also dug out one or two vintage pieces that are relevant to this project. I love the 1950s lead chickens, the mower is not vintage at all actually but a Phoenix mower painted to look old......plus there is a rare Dinky Dolly Varden 1/24th scale kitchen chair from the 1930s.  The upholstered chair on the right is a vintage 1980s/90s chair now aged a little....(so the gardener can rest his weary legs) plus the vintage chair on the far right is believed to be 1930s. The little old lead churns are perfect for use in these old garden scenes.

Should be a fun day!

AUTUMN WORKSHOP
Saturday 27th September
Bicester Avenue Garden Centre

 We now have a date booked for our Autumn workshop - the project will be called....
Down The Little Old Herb Garden Path.

Details will appear on our Nostalgic In Miniature Workshops website on Monday....when booking will officially open. 

Celia

Where Has This Week Gone!

Have you ever got to the end of the week to find that very little has been crossed off your "To Do List" that you made at the beginning of the week? Well....this has been one of those weeks for me.

I'm not really complaining though, as the reason has been that ALL of my offspring descended on me unexpectedly last weekend and two of them extended their stay...which was lovely!! It rarely happens as they all live in different places....two of them living way up north! So we have made the most of our "family" time together.

I happened to drop in the conversation to one of them a while ago that I shall not be around on "Mothering Sunday" as I will be taking a trip with me old mate Robin up to Miniatura. So I was not expecting to see them at all for a while...which made it even more special.   

 As our next workshop is less than a month away now, we have the mammoth task of putting kits together in preparation....hence one of our tasks at Miniatura tomorrow is to pick up a huge bundle of wood from Wood Supplies stand. With 16 kits to put together means that just on the old console tables alone, there are 64 legs to cut, 80 separate spacers etc....so I need to get cracking!

Here is the same old console table in 1/12th and 1/24th scales, side by side. These are just one tiny part of our "Round The Back Of The Old Gardener's Cottage Workshop"  project that we are now preparing for.

 If you ever need wood for a miniature project then I can highly recommend Wood Supplies...they do mail order and are extremely helpful. I have been using their wood for literally years: http://www.wood-supplies.com/   

Large German Mantle Clock Available On The Antique & Vintage Living/Dining Room Page

By the way, all you UK readers.....don't forget to put your clocks forward an hour tonight as we enter British Summer Time - what a hassle this always is!!!  Why do we still do this...it always seems such nonsense. I bet the rest of the world think we are bonkers....which we are of course. So tonight, we actually lose an entire hour!!!

Anyhow.... next week on my brand new "To Do List" is a mammoth session of listing antique and vintage items including old dolls houses. So, fingers crossed, I make better headway with all of that than I did this week. Apologies for the delay in listing the lovely c1920s Lines DH1 and Barton Addington Lodge. There is also a c1930s Tri-ang No 62 coming too.

Celia

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!

CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS INCLUDING A DOWNLOADABLE BOOKING FORM