Just some summer greetings :-)

Now summer is really here and I just like to send you some inspirations of flowers :-) ! My real garden is looking like a cottage garden at the moment. So I took some of the flowers to make them in miniature and placed them together in little displays .Hope you all have such a wonderful weather and enjoy it ;-) !

Crooked House is ready planted

Now Jutta and I just finished her lovely Crooked House ,which she has built last year in the workshop with Rik Pierce .
I have shown you already different photos of this project, but now we have completed it . At the door we planted the arrangement with hollyhocks and delphinium ,an owl of Irmgard is sitting on the gatepost. All the other animals are also made by Irmgard .
In the flower-bed we added the columbine and set a hosta to finish the bed .
I really love that house and I'm a little bit envious ,because I never have the time ,to complete my own house ! But sometime maybe ;-) ...

Magical things decorated with flowers

Spider mums with an open book
Tansy loosely added to a witch book
Some herbs at the stove,ready for the mixture of the witch in her kitchen . The basket with apples and worms are from Kiva !

A withered rose grows out of the book ,perhaps a wrong spell :-) !

These are just some ideas of Karin and me how to team magical books or bundles together with flowers and herbs . I like it, because it brings life in the dark side of mysticism :-) !

What a great day :-)

Today I get this wonderful gift from Cornelia , a really amazing magician. Look at his character face, isn't he great ?! Many thanks again Cornelia ,you really made my day :-) !

Here you can see the complete room-box ,it's build by my dearest friend Karin
It is one of my favourites that she build for me. All the decorated furniture ,book stacks, accessories here and there are also made by Karin specially for me :-)


Owl,little bird,squirrel and husky made by Irmgard Gritzan , Annie Willis made the ape and Manuela Schulz made the phoenix,the parrot and the sorcerer' s apprentice . Chandelier and torchair are made by Tony Knott .
Unfortunately today the light is very bad here at home,so I made two versions of every picture .One with and one without photoflash .

My other treasuries from the show 1zu12

These dolls from Cornelia Köhler of Characters in Miniature were the first things I have bought . No wonder : We drove together to the show and already in the car I looked in her packages :-) ! The great couple is Pater Brown and his housekeeper .The lovely housewife ,busy cleaning, is the start for my new kitchen.


These great magical books and paper bundles are of course from nobody else than my dearest friend Karin Caspar of K.C. Design . Karin I didn't buy enough ,have to contact you :-) !

More miniatures for the kitchen from Miniature Alemikimikri . I never can resist there charming things and so every year some things came in my collection :-) !

For the garden a watering can from Alemikimikri Miniatures .
A shelf and a flowerpot holder by Le mini di Pierluigi . This man makes really great things ,is full of ideas and the things are perfect for my flowers. I was very glad to met him !
The board is also from Le mini di Pierluigi . He told me that this board stoods in every Italian kitchen and it is for herbs.But I sadly forgot the right name for this,because it was Italian .Perhaps anybody of you could help me ???


A tray consistent with wall tiles I bought already last year for my new kitchen from Tiny Ceramics .
For my flowers I bought wonderful butterflies from Manuela Herbst of Scarlett's zauberhafte Miniaturen .They are made very detailed ,the bodies are molded and every butterfly has his legs !

And at last delicious bread and croissants from Stephanie Kilkast of PetitPlat Food Art .

Back from the show :-)

It was a great show in Rheda-Wiedenbrück and I really enjoyed the two days. Many great artist and lovely people . Thank you to all who stopped and said Hello :-) !
I have bought many beautiful things ,but since now I didn't take a photo of all . So I just made some pictures of the french cafe which is finished now. Linda of linsminiartform had worked very hard for that since the last months with her breathtaking food .Please take a peak ,how detailed and real looking every piece is made !!!
So I bought a rack by Alemikimikri Miniatures ,a really lovely woman from Italy, to arrange the food of Linda . The scene is now called : Rendezvous of Romy Schneider and Alain Delon :-) ! The dolls for that are made by my friend Cornelia Köhler , a German doll-artist,who makes wonderful character figurines .
Only the musicians is from Marcia Backstrom .

See you on the fair 1zu12 Rheda-Wiedenbrück

I'm now ready for the fair 1zu12 tomorrow , hope to see many of you there :-) !

1zu12 Die Messe Rheda-Wiedenbrück

Diesen Bericht aus dem Tagesblatt " Die Glocke" zur Messe 1zu12 habe ich gerade gefunden. Ich weiß nicht ,wie es euch geht ?! Aber bei mir steigt die Spannung immer mehr ,wie es in der neuen Umgebung wird :-) !

Maßstab 1:12 lässt Raum für Details

Willkommen im Leben auf kleinem Fuß: Die Lippstädterin Barbara Lüffe-Leuchtenberger veranstaltet am 28. und 29. Mai zum zwölften Mal die Fachmesse „1zu12“. Miniaturenbauer aus ganz Europa werden erwartet. Bislang fand die Ausstellung in Soest statt.

Bild: Grujic

Rheda-Wiedenbrück (ng) - Fantastische Welten im Kleinformat: Die größte Miniaturenausstellung Deutschlands öffnet am letzten Maiwochenende im Rhedaer A2-Forum ihre Pforten. Die Messebezeichnung „1zu12“ ist Programm.

„Was im wahren Leben zwölf Zentimeter groß ist, misst bei uns nur einen Zentimeter“, sagt Veranstalterin Barbara Lüffe-Leuchtenberger. Seit der Premiere im Sommer 2000 habe sich die Fachmesse zu einer der renommiertesten Veranstaltungen ihrer Art weltweit entwickelt, erklärt Barbara Lüffe-Leuchtenberger. „Es gibt nur zwei Miniaturenausstellungen, die größer sind.“

211 Aussteller aus zwölf Ländern haben sich für die erste Ausgabe der „1zu12“- Messe in Rheda-Wiedenbrück angemeldet. „Wir rechnen an beiden Tagen mit mehr als 2000 Besuchern“, sagt die Lippstädterin. Nicht nur Sammler aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet, sondern auch aus vielen europäischen Ländern, werden erwartet. Trotzdem sei der detailgetreue Nachbau der Wirklichkeit im Maßstab 1:12 eher ein „Nischenhobby, das von mehr oder weniger Verrückten“ betrieben werde, sagt Barbara Lüffe-Leuchtenberger mit einem Augenzwinkern.

Die gelernte Journalistin kam vor Jahren durch Zufall zu dem Hobby. „Mit einem Grundriss für zehn Mark und Sperrholz aus dem Baumarkt fing alles an“, erinnert sie sich an ihren ersten Kontakt mit dem Leben en miniature. Die Messe diene Sammlern und Modellbauern nicht nur zur Materialbeschaffung, sondern auch als Ideenbörse. „Die meisten Anhänger unseres Hobbys beschränken sich längst nicht mehr darauf, Puppenhäuser zu bauen und einzurichten“, unterstreicht Barbara Lüffe-Leuchtenberger. „Viele experimentieren auch mit unkonventionellen Themen.“

Ein Hingucker im Eingangsbereich der Messe sei die Miniaturstadt Winzighausen („Die Glocke“ berichtete in der Mittwochsausgabe). „Die 16 Quadratmeter umfassende Installation ist ein Gemeinschaftswerk von Modellbauern aus Deutschland und Österreich, die in Heimarbeit 55 Häuser gebastelt haben.“ Im Computer-Zeitalter plagen auch die Modellbauer zunehmend Nachwuchssorgen. „Junge Leute erschaffen sich ihre virtuellen Welten lieber am PC, als sie in stundenlanger Kleinarbeit im Miniaturformat zu basteln“, sagt die Messeveranstalterin.

Gladioli

Just have finished these gladioli.I have seen in a painting,that they also look lovely bundled like this,not only straight. So I gave the arrangements this form.Hope you like it too ?!

Messe 1zu12 Rheda-Wiedenbrück

Wie ich soeben erfahren habe, gibt es eine Liste der Aussteller mit Standaufbau auf der Messe 1zu12 . Hier ist der Link dazu,für alle die sich schon mal orientieren möchten !
http://www.1zu12.com/Katalog%202011.pdf

Ich habe die Standnummer 57 und ich würde mich über jeden Besuch am Stand freuen :-) !

As I have just heard, there is a list of exhibitors with booth erection from the fair 1zu12 . Here is the link : http://www.1zu12.com/Katalog%202011.pdf

I have the stand number 57 and I would be glad about everyone of you, who would stop and say hello :-) !

A little bit of Art Deco

Sometimes I like to make things in the style of Art Deco. So have this wonderful Vase from Igma artisan Ulrich Vetter and decorated it with a phalaenopsis in soft pink tones .The lovely bronze statue is from Neil Carter .

A preview of the summer

I like to show you one of the new flower beds I have made for the next fair 1zu12 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück . There are hollyhocks,delphinium ,little mums and a green-plant .


I have made another picture between my real flowers .Do you find the little bed ? :-)