ARTS AND MINIATURES: agosto 2010

segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2010

An amazing gift

This month I received an amazing birthday gift from my friend Maria Armanda , a beautiful bird cage

I was so happy with this gift, I found it absolutely magnificent, now I have to create a special interior to accomadate such beauty. And here are a few photos so that you can judge for yourself.

Obrigada mais uma vez Maria Armanda.

domingo, 8 de agosto de 2010

Pastries for my shop

First of all thank you very much to my new followers, I´ve been a little absent lately but I decided it was time to take some days of vacations to help me recovering of my broken foot.

My miniature production was so reduced last months, what I can show you for the moment is the pastries I made in June for my shop, the shop it self is awaiting for better days, but when ready I have lots and lots of pastries to decorate it.

All the cakes and cake stands are made of FIMO and SCULPEY

Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

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HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.