The old table - getting a bit nostalgic

This is the old table that I originally made for Petit Brocante when it was still a part of my miniature dreams, and not yet a web shop. Actually it has been displayed in a lot of different places...here is a few...

 

 

 

 

 

 

During time people have often asked me to sell the table, and I refused.

Now I made some new tables with the old one as a prothotype.

This one is without a drawer and has a gray base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This table is listed on Etsy, and I will add other versions too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still painting...

Still very occupied by different kinds of patina and using different effects. I love the dirty look, as you might know, but I also have a weakness for the softness that golden accents adds to a piece of furniture or a decorative item.

 

 

I´ve ground painted this furniture with a black base. Then I added a crackle medium, and mixed a light gray color to make it´s basic color.

Then I added lots of gold with one of those acrylic paints that have a bit of a glittering effect.

Below is a close-up of the patina...

 

 

This piece of furniture is listed on Etsy.

 

Pics from Farum

We had an absolutely lovely time in Farum with a lot of visitors. It was really a great succes and so nice to meet the danish customers and to do some networking with the other artists too.

 

 

 

Most of the large furniture were sold very quickly and I was buisy filling up the empty spots with smaller things..

 

 

 

 

..and as usually I spent too little time taking pictures of my stand and of the people surrounding buisy me...

 

Ready for Farum/Danish fair

Hi,
Just wanted to sum up about the last activities for the Danish Dollhouse Festival in Farum/Copenhagen 4-5 of may this year.

I have been working a lot, I made some post on my Petit Brocante FaceBook page, but did not have the time for listing all of it here also. Here are are few pictures from my recent posts, hope you´ll like it..

The first one, above, I made some weeks ago, garden tools, baskets and the very old hand showl (has been a ongoing listing of mine for more than two years now)  and the garden table. I allways liked to paint the small handle of the showl to make it special, and I prefer this kind of green. I am so greatful that so many people saw this (more than 1600 actually) and liked it on my Facebook side (more than 89).

The next is  this cabinet, It is ideally for storing your collection of miniature treaures. This one is creme white with patina.
There are a lot more, but not much time...please visit Petitbrocante on Facebook too..

Hope to see you soon!

 

Bird cages

Made some old bird cages for the Farum fair. A creme and golden one,

and a brown-green-golden version.

 

 

 

Allthough I am off from work these days, I think there are a lot of miniature work to be done before we hit Farum on the 3. of May to set up the stand and get everything in their right places.

My sweet husband will be on the stand too helping me.

 

 

Dress form...and a belt

Well, it started with a simple wooden dress form, I was decorating. I painted it and put on some linen , and then I wondered how to personalize it, to make it mine, different from other dress forms available. Then I made the belt...

 

 

The base is brown antique braid. I found it on a market in a small town in Italy last year. I just love finding such things, and I use them as decorations in my 1:1 house. I used nail glitter items for the bucklet. Those tiny items have endless possibilities...

 

I think I found my style..

Ballet paintings

 

The image of a ballet dancer has been fascinating me ever since I was a small girl. Soft movements and soft colors. I´ve used all of these pictures on my miniature items before but this time I´ve decided to put them into aged golden frames and a made some selections, a pink one and a light blue one...

 

They are also easily matched differently, I guess, use your fantasy...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wish you a nice week!

 

 

 

French vitrine

I have been working on a french vitrine. I like to keep the image of this furniture gray and to show all the signs of age, shelling and crackling this painted surface has.

 

 

 

 

The Vitrine jusr calls for soft contrasts, lots of antique laces, I would suggest ;-)

 

 

Brocante bench and cupboard

A little stilleben with a french brocante bench,

a large dresser with toille patterned paper inside,

an aubusson rug in soft blue-gray colors

...and a few items to combine and accentuate...

 

 

The beautiful basket is made by Lidi Strout from BasketcaseMiniatures, the tin on the top op the dresser are made by Susi from MiniEdenTienda.

The rest are made by me.

 

Lamps

Last night I spent a quiet night on the sofa with a tray on my knees making lamps, watching a little bit of TV in small glimpses and having a very good glass of italian red wine to celebrate the easter holidays. The first one is in silver and crystal clear beads, I hung it in my 1:1 candelabre...

 

Then there is always the magical moment when you put the light on...it changes this lamp a lot, it makes the upper beads look like they were amber. That was my inspiration for the next one...

 

 

The golden version.

I am experimenting with other colors and kinds. They are all for the Danish Dollhouse Festival.

 

 

 

Rusty furniture

 

I am already on my easter holidays. Since the winther still haven´t left us at all, we are not going to our summer house, and I´ve decided to work a lot with the miniatures for the Danish Dollhouse Festival in Farum/Copenhagen.

 

 

 

 

Today I have been patinating metal furniture for the fair. You may know, that I love rust with a twist of green and grey...

 

 

Costumers often asked me to bring along some furniture, and this year I will ;-)

Hope to see you there...and wishing you a happy easter!