Feiras de Artesanato em Lisboa

Mais uma feira de artesanato, Craft &Design, neste caso na Praça da Alegria. Também tem um blog http://www.feiralegria.blogspot.com/ .

Para quem queria estar informado de todas as feiras que se realizam em Lisboa, o melhor mesmo é consultar a Agenda Cultural de Lisboa, on-line http://www.agendalx.pt/

Teresa give-away

Teresa at http://minimadwoman.blogspot.com/ , is having a lovely give-away to celebrate her impending 100th follower, as you can see from the picture above the baskest that she did prepare.

Make a visit to her beautiful blog and see how you can participate!!!!

Casas Rústicas da Occre, ainda se podem comprar

Os Kits de algumas casas Rústicas que a occre produziu ainda estão à venda em Espanha, em algumas lojas on-line, que vendem para Portugal.
http://www.alcaiceria.com/ (205 euros)

http://www.tiendadecasitas.com/ (170 euros casa Aneto semi-montada, pintada por fora e com todos os papéis postos)

http://www.promociontiendavirtual.com/

Este último site tem os 3 primeiros modelos que podem ver em cima, Tirol, Ordesa e Diana. Os outros dois têm a Casa Aneto, que corresponde à fotografia mais em baixo. os valores são 145 euros para o Kit da Tirol e e 200 para as outras duas.

Mas atenção são kits, é preciso confirmar que materiais é que trazem. De qualquer modo o preço é bastante interessante e permite personalizar a casa a nosso gosto.

Podem sempre comprar mobiliário e outros complementos na Occre, incluindo papéis de boa qualidade.

Jardim da Estrela - Crafts e Designs

Este fim de semana, ocorre o 3º aniversário da Crafts + Design , feira que realiza todos os primeiros fins de semana de cada mês no Jardim da Estrela.

Para além da feira, realizam-se vários espectáculos de rua, vejam tudo no blog http://crafts-design-no-jardim-da-estrela.blogspot.com/

Estou para lá ir desde o início, acho que é desta que dou lá um saltinho.

Casa Rústica - Altaya

Esta semana vai sair o primeiro fascículo da Casa Rústica da Altaya/Planeta Agostini, mas esta é diferente da primeira que saiu, e que muitas de nós fizemos.

Apesar dos problemas com o Palácio, colecção que eu não fiz, penso que esta colecção valerá a pena pois este modelo, muito semelhante à outra, deverá também ter o selo da Occre, como aliás a Casa de Praia, que uma amiga e vizinha minha está a fazer para eu depois montar. Até agora tem corrido tudo bem e já estamos no fascículo 91. Claro que no final, isto sai caro, mas a verdade é que como é às prestações e estas casas não se encontram à venda em lado nenhum, eu acho que vale a pena, principalmente para quem simplesmente quer ter uma casa de bonecas e não propriamente dedicar-se ao miniaturismo.

Para mais informações visitem o site http://www.planetadeagostini.pt/colecionavel/casa-rustica-de-campo.html

A Occre http://www.occre.com/ ainda tem disponível vários artigos para casa de bonecas à escala 1:12,alguns iguais aos que vieram com a 1ª Casa Rústica, como seja algum mobiliário e papéis de parede.

http://www.occre.com/images/productos/85/principal.jpg

http://www.occre.com/images/productos/83/principal.jpg

Nove feira de miniaturas em Madrid - New miniature fair in Madrid

Os presentamos una nueva feria que se celebrará los dias 14 y 15 de Noviembre de 2009 en los salones del Hotel NH Alcalá de Madrid. C/ Alcalá Nº 66.
Sábado de 11 h. a 20 h.
Domingo de 11 h. a 16 h.
Entrada gratuita.

Ésta es una iniciativa que surgió con la intención de demostrar que las ferias de miniaturas pueden ser eventos felices, libres de agobios, con calidad en sus ofertas y sin que supongan un gasto desmesurado para nadie y, sobre todo: reivindicar la libertad de elección en cuanto a las ferias a las que se decide asistir, manteniendo el respeto por la decisión de cada cual sin perder la cordialidad y el cariño.
En breve podreis visitar la web de esta feria con toda la información al respecto, mientras tanto para cualqier duda o sugerencia no dudéis en poneros en contacto a través de los siguientes correos electrónicos:
matiadncia@hotmail.com

montsecompany@telefonica.net

filiagulla@carmenferrandiz.com

Es una feria organizada por artesanos aficionados a las miniaturas para casas de muñecas, donde además de exponer miniaturas, casitas y toda suerte de materiales para ellas, se realizarán talleres de las especialidades de cada artesano.

También habrá sorteos cada dia, de miniaturas artesanales entre los visitantes y que estarán expuestas e identificadas en la mesa del artesano que las elabora.
¡Os esperamos en la gran fiesta de las miniaturas para casas de muñecas!

Ora, como a feira de Miniaturas de Madrid promovida pelo Bishop, é exactamente nos mesmos dias, cada um que tire as conclusões que quiser.....

This fair will take place exactly in the same week-end that the Madrid Miniature fair organized by Bishop....

Do you love baskets?

I love baskets, all kind of baskets and I think that the mini baskets made by Lidi Stroud from Australia are just fabulous! You can see (and buy) them in Nambuccas Little Shoppe

http://www.intominis.com/service1.html

Also, her work was feature in the last AIM Mag Issue, which is a free downloadable magazine

http://www.artisansinminiature.com/issue10.html

and in her photo album http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f112/lidistroud

summer holidays

Two photos of our holidays, in the first one I am in the swimming pool, at midnight!!! in the second one, my husband very happy with the swimming pool temperature, about 30 ºC.

I'm back from holidays

I'm back from holidays and as I promised here are the four blogs I have chosen
Alicia with her beautiful blog Aligra dolls http://aligradolls.blogspot.com
Rute and Fábio, both are very young Portuguese miniaturists
The links for their blos are http://rtgcdb.blogspot.com/ and http://fabiocasadebonecas.blogspot.com/
Finally, Carla Gabriela with her nice blog http://myminiatures-miniaturas.blogspot.com/
"Um abraço para todos, e espero que não se zanguem muito comigo com esta nomeação...."

I have been tagged by Katie

This is funny, I have to go to the 4th album of photos and pick up the 4th photo.

Here it is, this photo is from March 2008 and you can my husband, my selsf and my niece Margarida, all of us on the same side, and on the left some friends. We were in a restaurant, and it was during the Audioshow in Lisbon, where my husband was with his equipments.

I have to pass this along to 4 other bloggers and they get to post the fourth picture in their fourth file for us to see, and of course, they get to pass it on, in the same way

Now I must name 4 blogs but I will do it when I return back from Spain :) :):)

welcome new followers

Good morning!
I have two new followers Sonia from http://minitink.blogspot.com , make a visit to her blog, is very nice, and Mariviganonet (no blog link....)
hugs for both, thanks for follow my blog :):):)

Short course on decorative painting in wood curso de pintura decorativa em madeira

and the other thing I did, a small table top inspired in the blue and white Portuguese tiles

finally, my diploma

During the last couple of weeks I did make a short course on decorative painting on wood. As we could choice the pieces we want to paint, I decided to paint miniature furniture, of course. The course was fantastic and fun, I did enjoy every moment.

Tirei mais um curso no IAO, da Fundação Ricardo Espítito Santo e Silva (www.fress.com), o curso com a duração de 25 horas decorreu nas instalações do IAO, entre as 18 e as 21 horas, 3 vezes por semana. A professora foi a Vera Rebelo Pinto , podem visitar o blog dela "Pintura decorativa" http://www.vrp-pinturarte.blogspot.com/ , que além de ser óptima professora é uma simpatia. O curso decorreu num ambiente super agradável, de tal modo que toda a gente quer "mais".

Feira de artesanato urbano

Neste fim de semana e 15 e 16 deste mês de Agosto, na Praça da Alegria em Lisboa, um sítio giro para ir e depois dar um salto à Geladaria Veneziana e passear um pouco pela baixa Lisboeta.
(This is a Craft Fair in Lisbon....)

A new bag!

I have just finished another bag, take a look at my site http://foreverbags.blogspot.com

free mag on-line

Free magazine on line
http://www.artisansinminiature.com/issue10.html

an award from Katie

Katie words http://katiesclaycorner.blogspot.com/:

This is just the kind of award that should be going around blog world. So many of us depend on each others comments to get us though. I don't know about ya'll, but my family is tired of hearing it, seeing it....and the fact my craft stuff tends to take over every room, doesn't help either. I love seeing someone else get excited about what I'm sharing...it makes me feel really connected to all of you.

This award was designed by Ces for her friend Bella. Ces wrote:- I designed this award to celebrate art in the blogs and to honour the value of friendship, sisterhood, sharing and caring. It is to be awarded to the gifted, accomplished, eloquent and talented blogger, whose friendship and influence inspire us to do our best. That I named it after Bella Sinclair is because she epitomises all of these things.

the link to Ces's blog....
http://cesandherdishes.blogspot.com/2009//07/bella-sinclair-award.html

Katie, thank you very much for the award, it really means a lot to me to receive it from you.

I love to read your blog, I enjoy so much your stories about Otis (LOL), the news about your family, I smile with all that things that Cora wants for her house....this is really sharing and caring.

So, it is not only to read a blog and to see nice miniatures and because of this I am taking this award very serious and passing it to a few persons:

to my friend Alicia Volta http://aligradolls.blogspot.com/

to Rosanna http://lastanzadigiuggiola.blogspot.com/

to Sans http://sansddprojects.blogspot.com/

to April http://everylittlethingakw.blogspot.com/

to Debbie http://debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com/

to Kim http://flowerkim.blogspot.com/

to Sofia http://o-mundo-de-zaphia.blogs.sapo.pt/

Welcome to my new followers

I am very happy, I have two more followers!!!!
Thank you very much for your interest in my blog.

Tico-tico, I miss her so much :(

Two places where she loves to be (LOL )and sleep, of course!

Where is she and where is she going?

opening a wing..., beautiful isn't it?

She is moving ver quickly!

She is almost there....

last picture, no comments :):)

News: she is OK, but she can´t fly, yet, we hope. Yesterday she was very quite and didn´t want to eat, but today she has been very active and eating a lot.

These were the last photos we taken from her when she was still with us.

Tico-tico is a girl!!!!!

My husband and the biologist, she is also Ana, when we met

Dear friends

It seems that Tico-tico is a little girl!!!!

And I have a lots of news to tell. As you may remember what we really want it is to return the little bat to her colony. So, she is now with a biologist, specialist in bats, more precisely species that are from Portuguese habitats and of course it was from her that we knew that Tico-tico is a girl.

We miss her little baby bat a lot!!!! she is so cute and sweet. But she is doing well, eating lots of good things, vitamins and calcium and learning how to fly at night (we hope).

Kite paper and balloons!!!!!!!!!

Kite paper and balloons!!!!!!!!!
Cute wall lights to your nursery room or shop

These wall lights are very easy to make, just takes a few hours and no expensive or special materials are needed. these were designed by myself, so you can use the design , with no problem.

Materials
Wood (obeche wood with 3 mm width maximum)
Thin paper card
Metal rule
Kitchen paper towel
Fine sand paper
Sharp craft knife or x-acto
Tacky glue
Pencil
Acrylic paints (colours of your choice)
Embroidery thread (white or brown…or as you wish)
Filler
Electric bulb with wire and plug
Kite template

Kite-paper

Important measures
Tail about 7.5 cm (about 0.5 cm with be to glue the tail to the back
of the kite
Number of tiny bows: 7-9
Tiny bows: about 1.2X 0.5


Draw a cross with 2.6 X 4.0 cm in the thin card and complete the drawing creating a lozenge (also called diamond), this is your template. Use it to cut it in the wood. Keep the template! you are going to need it for the back side of the kite (see photos).
Sand carefully. Draw a cross in the front as you see in the picture. With the help of the x-acto or a craft-knife, use the lines to make the two grooves.
Now if you want give a fine coat of filler and sand again, in order to have a nice smooth surface, maintaining the grooves!!!!!!!!!
In the back make also 4 little grooves as explained in the picture, they will be use to glue in place the tiny pieces of wood and the kite tail.

Paint the kite with colours of your choice. I painted with to tones of the same colours and I like very much the effect. After drying with a soft cloth polish the surface gently, this will allow you to get a beautiful finish.

Making the tail: paint a piece of the towel kitchen paper with dilute acrylic paint, the stronger one you have used in the kite. Let it dry. Separate the double paper layer, just use one to cut little rectangles (average length 1.2X 0.5 cm).
With the help of a tweezers hold the, the rectangle in the middle, press in order to obtain the little bow. Just like this, glue it on a piece of white embroidery thread. Make 7-9 bows like this.
Now it is time to glue the tail and the ends on the back of the kite, on those little groves you have done. Everything is in place? Wait to dry; now you can glue the card template, to have a nice back.
Cut a cube (more or less) of wood, and open in the centre a tiny hole, just large enough to pass the electric wire with the lamp attached. You can put a drop of glue to maintain it in place. Complete with the connection of the plug (remember that if you want to hide the wire, you must make the hole in the wall first, put the wire trough it, and then connect the plug (see photo of the toy shop, yellow kite), and voilá you just need to fix your kite to the wall………


Tip – if you are one of those that don’t have much time to spend on making miniatures, but still love to do your own one, just make the kite in thick card (about 3 mm thick), decoration can be made with paper, painting or even with real fabric, maybe matching the nursery room, make the tail as described and, glue the bulb in place.

Balloons:

you will need a piece of wood with 4.6 X 4.6 cm to make the two balloons that are together in one piece!!!! (see the photos and the draws)
The little one painted in yellow is a “circle with about 2.0 X 0.8 cm
Pay attention to the photos to see the part where the thread is tightened as if it was use to hold the balloon…

Note: If you can, put two bulbs, in opposite directions, it will look much better!

Tico-Tico and my dollhouse!!!!

He is so cute!