Please don't make this mistake

This will be a longer post, but perhaps it is useful for some you . I have made this monastery garden two years ago together with Karin for a customer . It took a long time after planing, building and planting and we were very proud . So but I have made the mistake, to trust a new material which came out in our shop for model railway . It was called " Moss for glade " , a product of Busch ( a German company ). What I didn't know, that it was a natural building material !
This is the result after two years , the whole grass looks sere and withered ! So that's why made these photos today, please don't take natural material for miniature garden. It is only for a short time , after that you can cast it away . As I saw this by my customer, I took the garden and promised to refresh it completely. Fortunately he is also a good friend and he wasn't angry about that what happened .
And this was my day : I put every flower out of the garden and deleted the whole grass with a scraper and a cutter knife . After that I put on a coat from my wallpaper waste and put new grass from woodland scenic on it. And after hours of setting all the flowers on the right place , the whole thing was restored :-) ! I have made some pictures , although I hadn't daylight, but I'm so lucky now and show you them .

Chinese laterne plant

I have made these Chinese laterne plant in commission and it really drives me crazy. It was very difficult to build the flowers out of paper, but somehow I made it :-) !

New Pictures of the hairdresser's shop

I have been busy making accessories for the hairdresser's shop , because it looked so naked. So while waiting for the next dolls of Cornelia I put all the other things inside. Even not everything is finish, but now Dani will feel more comfortable :-) !

Hairdresser's shop

Since working at my flowers ,I have made a hairdresser's shop for a doll ,that Cornelia Köhler made . I bought the box in Rheda and made a modern shop . I put LED light inside, so you have a good insight also with the front before .
You see, it's just at the beginning , but everything takes a while :-) . The furniture is bought by Delph Miniatures ,I really like their assortment . The palms just stand there until I have made enough decoration like posters and everything what makes a modern Hairdresser's shop.
I made the pillars out of plexiglass and marbled them with acrylic colors .
Here will be the place for the man ,maybe someone who will be shaved ?!
Here you see Dany closer ,I really love that doll .Like always Cornelia did a marvelous job . He will dress a funky girl .

For Karin :-)

Just for fun I made a spooky flower for Karin's little candy shop . I put some dandelion around ,that it looks more real :-)) . Think that's far away from reality and really far away from flowers I normally make . So now I'm curious Karin ,how you will arrange it and I hope you'll like it .

A picture taken in the evening , it looks more spooky :-))

Just wonderful !

Please take a look at the miniature collection of Tom Roberts
http://web.me.com/gaskin_mcpherson/TomRobertsMiniatures.com/Home.html

It's really wonderful what he has build in 55 years !

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 .