Showing posts with label globe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globe. Show all posts

Friday, 30 June 2017

Dernières acquisitions

Mais dernières acquisitions, qui datent du Kensington Dollhouse Festival de Londres, étaient restées dans les cartons faute de temps pour les installer et prendre les photos.



C'est encore le cabinet de curiosités qui a bénéficié de toute mon attention. Là ça devient vraiment très encombré, je ne sais pas si je vais encore pouvoir en ajouter beaucoup.......



Mon amie Catherine m'avait ramené cette superbe machoire de requin, tout à fait à sa place dans le cabinet de curiosités. J'ai ajouté quelques livres et planches d'étude. La chaise est de Kim Selwood.


La collection égyptienne manquait de bronzes. Heureusement Neil Carter est là pour réduire au 1/12ème les statuettes du trésor de Toutankhamon.



J'ai enfermé sous globe un petit Bernard l'Hermite réalisé par Hannah Hawkins - Once Upon a Time Miniatures. A côté, d' autres globes dont un memento mori de Truly Scrumptious Miniatures.


Et pour finir, un mini Titanic de Paul Briggs of Nottingham. Indispensable dans une maison construite en 1912-13.

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Little additions before the great migration.

Moving dollhouses and miniatures is worse than moving 1/1 furniture. Some of you are in the same situation, and for me it's not the first experience, but it takes so much time to pack all the little curiosities of "The Cabinet"....
I can't resist to add some little objects before they get wrapped in bubbles and boxes, even if this doesn't help the efficiency of the packing process.

 
During the KDF I bought two birds from Tiny Tails Miniatures  to finish  some display under globe. Actually I made two, one with the birds and one with real shells and a sand rose, decorated with fake coral.


I'm really happy with the colours in the globe, they match perfectly those of the cabinet.
 


Je commence à empaqueter les miniatures du "Cabinet de Curiosités". Ce n'est pas très rapide et, comme je retrouve de petites choses en attente, je fais encore quelques dioramas sous globe...côté efficacité, je ne suis pas sur la bonne voie. Des oiseaux de Tiny Tails Miniatures, une rose des sables et des coquillages, du faux corail....Je suis assez contente du résultat. Il ne reste plus qu'à les emballer !
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 


Tuesday, 29 January 2013

New curiosities

I came back this Sunday from the new City of London Dollshouse Festival with some new findings.
Today I'll show you the pieces I bought for my Curiosities Cabinet.




 






Once more, Cilla Albert, from Minst.com, has made just the right thing for my cabinet. I already had two coral pieces, and now I have the shells under globe. I had to change the shape of the shelves and add a nice curve to be able to put the three items together. On the picture, one of the corals is almost hidden. I'm a poor photographer !









 

On the lower shelve, I have two new curiosities : a shell fossil and a dinosaur spine. The latter is in fact a part of a squirrel spinal column, but nobody knows it. That was a gift from my daughter. I've made the setting this morning.
 
 
 
I also got the perfect armchair for my cabinet. The original is the Swan chair designed by Charles Voysey, an English architect and furniture designer. His work was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Art Nouveau. His famous Swan chair was designed between 1883 and 1885. The tiny one in my Cabinet is the work of Small-time miniatures. A master piece !
 
 
Here's a new picture of the whole cabinet.