Scale 1/144

Years ago I bought two miniatures in scale 1/144, they were the first miniatures that I saw in this scale, and I found them pretty at that time, then I thought to do my first try in that scale, indeed I started to do it, but I faced a problem with the lights, I choose the lamps which they call rice grain, but I found they warm to much, and then I put the work apart, but I will try to finish it in future, one more project to add to the others.....

These are the miniatures I bought in this scale

This is the project I intend to finish

As this work was done years ago  now I know I will have the opportunity to do a better work, I´m not happy with this one now that I see it.

(The fireplace and the painting are not ready)

This is a work that needs some dedication, but now I think I have some more materials adequate for this project, so I will try to put them among the others.

Vintage findings

For the moment I´m still organizing my studio and future work, so for the moment I will profit to show you some  recent vintage findings.

Porcelain plate showing an autumn scene -  the harvest, suitable for this time of the year. I think it was one of the plates of a lamp shade with the four seasons of the year, it only shows its beauty when put against light.

 I  can imagine how beautiful  should be the complete lamp,  may be  in sec. XIX

Cross stich embroidered purse, scissor and needles in a display, the purce needs a little repair work but it is lovely, the flowers are stiched with thread with a velvet look, it was a bargain I found.

My Summer ending

First of all thank you very much to my new Followers.

 I´ve been very busy after some days at the seaside to rest and collect forces to start work on my studio. I have been so little productive this year;  now after some repair works in my house I´m trying to put everything in place  because everything got upside down, and I hope this time to start with my works very soon, I sincerely hope so because I´ve so many projects in my mind and also so many  that I´ ve already started.

This summer when I was walking on the sand, and I profited to walk two hours each day trying to get better of my brooken foot, I decided:  now it´s time to finish my  miniature acquarium, I´ve been collecting seaweeds, little shells, and I started already to model a tiny fish (it´s not ready yet) you can see it on the following photo near the seaweeds.

     

                                                                  

The  fish at the bottom is made of porcelain and I included it on the photo just for inspiration for another tiny fish 

I love acquariums and  years ago we had  four large ones which gave us too many joys and some annoyments, nowadays equipments are much more effective, but we gave up already this wonderful hobby.

Some more photos of my summer place

The beach was so quite at the end of September

A forgotten toy on the sand

Another day with announcing a storm but with a temperature around the 23ºC



The same beach at a different day

It´s wonderful to observe sealife near the seashore 

And a lonely seabird

I´ve put a seaweed I found floating  inside a plastic bag full of water just to oberve it

My working table in the last months

Two months ago and after some "up and down" with my recovery from my broken foot,  I thought that it was time to start working, but no way, we had  already scheduled maintenance works in our house, which took too long, and so I had no opportunity  yet to start painting.

My "giveaway" to Susan and a swap with Eve are on the table and I hope to finish them still this year......,
please excuse me, but I didn´t forget.

And here are some photos:

When I work on the roses I like always to collect a real rose in my garden, it helps me with the colour

 

Paper roses, painted with watercolour, they are formed with individual petals 

Covering the frame with real silver leaf

Watercolour and frame

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.

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

A sketch

Today I found a study in my files I´ve done before decorating this japanese lacquered tray, I´ve done it years ago but  I still like it. Gouache over paper (scale 1/1)

Lacquered tray, hand painted with egg tempera over gold leaf  l/1

Also when I found today the photo of  my last oil paintings, I wished to restart soon, my recovery from the brooken foot is doing well. Thank you all to the ones who were concerned about me.

Oil paitings in scale 1/12

My 2nd adventure in the Pastry World

These last months I had to avoid the real world of desserts. Because of my broken foot I had to make some diet, I didn´t want to get  more weight, and I  succeed, but I took some revenge, as I had my box of FIMO kept at home, one day talking to a friend who also appreciates good pastry I decided to do again some desserts to compensate myself, and I was lucky to have by the hand some material to distract my mind from my problem. 

I´m very fond of good pastry in the scale 1/1 and unfortunately in my Country the confection of pastry is very industrial nowadays, although we have very good pastry-cooks in expensive Hotels and Restaurants which are recognized internationally.

In this Blog World I´m very attentive to  Blogs regarding original desserts, and  lately I´ve seen wonderful works in this area, congratulations to all of you.

Now I will show you only some of my experiences in this area, I did a lot of cakes but some of them are still unfinished, this is a work that I think I will repeat and hope to improove . All the  following cakes are made of FIMO and SCULPEY. For instance the Lilac Fantasy one of my preferred, is  inside made of "Chocolate", and then all covered with thin round petals. All of my cakes are original. 

Marzipan Star

Orange Sensation Cake

Lilac Fantasy

Angel Cake

Quetzalcoatl

Fruit Selection

Cake stand

 

Wedding Cake

In my projects I have two room-boxes and one Corner Shop which I intend to decorate as Pastry Shops, and a few years ago I bought in Thailand three pieces of  furniture and some cakes to decorate this last one. By that time I liked the cakes very much but now I think I will keep them hidden because I´m not fond of them any more, but now I´m glad I have already enough cakes for the three projects, later I´ll show you more.

Cakes I bought in Thailand

My Corner Shop