MY MINI DIARY, page 18

20 February, 2005:
Let's see.. what haven't I mentioned here yet.. *lol*
Well, I've been getting nice Egyptian things lately - first, some sand from Egypt (thanks to Taru), which came with a beautiful Tutankhamun card:

And then, Daniel surprised me with two issues of "The Gods of Ancient Egypt" magazine, both of which came with a miniature statue of a god - here's Ra and Anubis:

Before I had ever seen any dollhouse sites (=some years ago), one of my vague plans was to build something Ancient Egypt related.. But then I found the mini sites, and saw loads of similar projects, which sort of killed that subject for me, miniwise. Anyway, these statuettes are so cool that I might end up building a tomb scene someday, after all.. We'll see..

I've also been busy working on a certain book project.. It's a group effort, and it's all in Finnish, but that's all I'll say about it for now.

Above and below, my book project material..

I've found a new Finnish crafts forum, which is really good as it's about ALL crafts, so if you were to need help on something you're not that familiar with, you can always check the other threads, and will probably find someone who knows the stuff and can help! The forum is in Finnish, BUT, there's also a thread in English, if someone's interested in having a look - the URL is Ihanitse.com, and you'll need to scroll down to the end of the front page, to find the English thread.

On that crafts forum, we were discussing paper types (for scrapbooking, etc.), and I was wondering if a certain type of paper was what my ex-pen pal used to write letters on.. So, Minna surprised me with some samples, and included cute mini tags (see the picture above)! This means one of my fashion dolls will have a new hobby...

And that's not all the surprises I've received lately - Satu sent me a hot glue gun as I had mentioned that I'd never tried or even seen such thing! Pictures of my brand new Gregory are above and below. Yes.. I named him Gregory as that's how I felt from the very first drop of hot glue: "Oh, Gregory, where have you BEEN all my life?!" (That's right, I'm a fan of The Simpsons..)

Here are my first attempts with Gregory:

I mentioned before, that we had a craft session with Maaria and Jen, and that I'd post pictures. Well, I'll post some links to albums I made of their photos:
Jen's photos
The little green dragon is what Jen made during our craft session, the other pics are of her "Day of the Dead" crafts she had made earlier on, in Canada.
Maaria's photos
We've had two more craft sessions with Maaria since that first time (Jen could not take part as she was working, but we're also planning to have more craft sessions with her), so Maaria has done a lot - don't miss the number link to the second page, it's in the end of the first page. Quite a doll-maker, eh!

Here's Maaria (above), with our Oimouttahere (the cat).

31 January, 2005:
Eek, the first month of 2005 is nearly gone, and it's taken me this long to get back to updating my mini site! *blush* I can explain, though! LOL.. We went to Finland for Christmas, and as usual, I got a bad flu coming back home.. It kept me pretty much out of energy for two weeks, and after that, Daniel's mam went to Spain for a whole month, so I took the opportunity to use her room as a temporary storage while reorganising "my office". Another two-week job, that!
But I suppose you'd like to see some new pictures by now, so here's what I got for Christmas - miniwise:

We had our traditional-by-now gathering at Molly Malone's in Helsinki, and I met three miniaturist net friends for the first time, face to face (Katriina, Raija, and Riikamaria who unfortunately couldn't stay, but it was nice of her to come and say hi, anyway!). Raija brought me sand and miniatures! Above, two beautiful handbags, and two bottles of glogg... *hiC*

The Finnish version of "Da Vinci Code", also from Raija. I think she said this was made using the Lego miniature book, so it can be a book or a video.

A miniature surprise from Riikamaria - two of her famous miniature books (I had heard of them, but they are even more impressive than I had expected!) and a lovely pink rose.

This sofa and chairs are a pressie from my mam - she had bought me lots of gorgeous mini surprises at the fair in early December (Vanha, Helsinki). The scale is smaller than 1:12, could be around Lundby scale, but it doesn't matter as I can always make a smaller scale roombox - or ship my old Lundby to Ireland... *I wish!*

A tray of spuds (I think) and some kitchen towel, from my mam as well..

Most of the minis my mam gave me, were packed in this beautiful velvet box, and she had wrapped a deep gold/mustard yellow ribbon around it - I think my fashion dolls will get the box..

As I had mentioned something about Advent candles to my mam, she got an Advent candle holder for both my dollhouse and myself, as in 1:12 and 1:1 scale! Woohoo!

These kitchen utensils are made of metal, and they're very delicate and beautiful.

Here's a badly focused close-up of them.. The one on the left is a cheese slicer, you can't really tell by the photo..

Posh dinnerware for my dollies..

We visited Porvoo (an old town near Helsinki), and my mam bought me this little surprise

We had a craft session on Saturday (29th), with Maaria (originally from Finland, like myself) and Jen (originally from Canada). It was great fun, I'll post some pictures later..