New floor

My brocanteshop has a new floor. I like this one much better :-) It was a lot of work but it's worth it.



So for now I'm done with this shop. Up to the neighbours!!
At the moment I'm busy with the hall between the two shops. At the end you can see the beginning of the elevator. I want an oldfashion one so this is taking up a lot of my time. After lots of surfing the internet and thinking I came up with a sort of plan. Now I have to find the right stuff to make what I want. That can be a difficult thing!!! I already found really beautiful strips at the Arnhem fair. And yesterday I saw some candleholders. I see mini in the most peculiar things LOL.
I think I can use them to make the doors for the elevator!!
This will be continued.....for now the elevator as it is at the moment.




The next shop will be a vintage shop. I have put some things together that I will use in this shop. Just to get an idea how it will look like.
I bought two gorgeous hats from Janine Crocker. These will be the centrepiece in the shop!!! Can't wait till they arrive ;-)

The Arnhem show

I'm such a lucky one!!! Last week was my birthday and I got a lot of money to buy something nice for myself. Well....you don't have to say that twice so I had a big budget for the miniatureshow in Arnhem yesterday.
There were so many beautifull miniatures to admire!!!! I had a great day and went home with lots of minis and inspiration.
This are the beauties I bought yesterday.
Lots of kits ( a few one of Sylvia, I love them), some leather for shoes and bags, flowerkits and a knitting kit and a artdeco lamp.






Some minis for my brocante-house



A last but absolutely not least my two most favorite ones. A beautiful piece of Veronique Cornish and a little dancer.

I'm busy with......

At the moment I'm working on a new floor for my brocanteshop. I didn't like the floor that I made so I'm changing it into a wooden floor. I found a really beautiful design somewere in a onlinshop. With the help of a workshop from Josje I'm making a floor that ( I hope ) will be just what I want :-)
The photo shows how it will look like when it's finished. This is a first impression.




I'm also busy knitting a little jacket. This is not easy but so much fun!!! You can see the jacket grow on the needle. I have to be very careful though!!! It already slid of the needle once!!!

Troetels

At the moment we get 'troetels' as we go shopping in our supermarket. Troetel is a dutch word for pet. We get one with every €15,- we spend. With a family of 4 there are a lot of them in a few weeks. Here's a picture of a few of them. I give most of them away because the children love them.




But of course I keep a few for myself. They make sweet little miniatures!!!

I'm back

It's strange how things can work out. My computer is back again. I only lost a few things. Nothing important. ( Thank you for asking Jollie) So within a week and a half I had a running computer again. But I had a totall lack of inspiration. I had a good book to read so I spend most of my time on the couch LOL. In the last month I mananged to make a few mini's though. Hopefully spring will start soon here because I'm really in need of the sun!!
The mini's I've made:
A coat and a french breadbox.