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Showing posts with label honey dipper. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 December 2014

Happy Christmas and super KDF mini's from Pepper!

Long overdue post!

Awhile back, Pepper very thoughtfully asked if I "needed" anything from KDF ( don't we all :D ), as she was well aware there are some must-have miniatures that you literally cannot get anywhere, unless you go to a miniature show. As it happened I did "need" some Causeret pottery and Ray Storey glassware, quite badly actually. My shopping list items ended up being mostly unavailable, so Pepper had to choose for me, and she chose perfectly! She also had to dig into her Ray Storey glassware collection, as he had sold out prior to the show. So another giant Thank You again for that Pepper! Aaand... she got me more than a few extras! Everything arrived individually wrapped in tissue paper, and I had no idea what was in each one, so you can just imagine how amazing my afternoon was the day I unwrapped each of the following miniatures....  Warning - Photos do not do these miniatures justice, though they still look amazing despite the lighting conditions :D


Pottery by Elisabeth Causeret. 



They are just...beautiful. The crackle glaze is even more crackly in reality.



Each piece is signed with a potters mark on the base, bit hard to make out in the photo. They are incredibly stable too.



More Elisabeth Causeret Pottery. The mugs are both the same size, one is just standing slightly in front of the other.






Even more Elisabeth Causeret Pottery ( I know, I have been spoiled!). The lid on the teapot is removable.



Ray Storey bottles.



Colander and ladles by Orsis Miniatures. Very bad photo, these are delightfully dainty, ie. each ladle handle has a curl at the top. The matchstick is 3.8 cm long.



David Provan spice tower, honey pot with dipper and recorder.



The recorder has a thumb hole on the other side......I forgot to turn it over to show that :D



Each container has been turned for a precision fit, and the lid has a beautiful knot too.



Potato peeler by David Provan, part of me believes that you could actually peel a tiny potato with this. 



The last miniature parcel to be opened was this little box, I actually didn't expect anything to be inside it, but it was a tad heavy....



...?! :D



YES! The most amazing amount of biscuits!! And they were beautifully arranged in rows, which I forgot to record, in my haste to get them out of the box. I will definitely need tweezers to recreate how they were arranged :D I've even got an order for eating these, bear goes first, followed by star, then rectangle finished off with plain rounds, then back to bear,etc, :D. These were made by Orsis Miniatures.


And everything together! I had taken an inpromptu photograph of some of the pottery in the conservatory, but there has been an invasion of cat hairs and fluff, so I didn't include it :D Spring clean coming soon...

Thank you so, so much Pepper!

Pepper has opted for payment via miniatures, so this is one side of a swap, sadly she has to wait for the other side as I haven't made them yet, as much as I would have loved her to have them for Christmas :D

Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year.