Playing Santarina

I made a little sale on Monday, but guess where I spent the money immediately?

I chanced upon the MakeMinePink Angel Family 2009 project, and saw there were still empty spots for donation items.

Each year MMP holds an Angel Family drive to make Christmas special for others in need. Last year we out did ourselves! It was magical it was heartwarming and we helped quite a few people enjoy Christmas.

So basically there are a few families that need help and the members of the families would have a list of needs/wants. You pick what you are able to donate/giveaway.

I picked to buy some makeup for a 16 year old teenage girl. I didn't feel confident to get items like clothes or shoes as the sizes here would be very different, so I picked a category that I was confident instead. I wrote Joyce an email immediately, she gave the go ahead and off I went getting the items during lunch hour. :D I managed to get a cheek blusher, nail polish, eye shadow quad and a duo wand lipgloss. :) It was the first time I'm shopping cosmetics for a teenager but it was really fun. I reminded myself to pick sweet colours, colours that young girls would adore.

I didn't manage to take a photo as I was in a hurry to put it in the mail!! I hope it gets there safely!

Image courtesy of Make Mine Pink

Show and Tell Monday ~ 1:12 Scale Dessert Mousse Cups

I had a productive weekend. I skipped a week's class and stayed home to complete some outstanding tasks, as well as run some errands nearby. I also had the chance to experiment on dollhouse miniature scale dessert mousse cups. I have been obssessed about them again lately, and started making them in different flavours. One of the challenges I face was, how do I do multiple layers within 1.2cm? How do you decorate the top when the width of the top of the cup is only about 0.6cm? I start from the bottom layer, let it dry, before I attempt the 2nd layer. It's time consuming, and you have to be patient. There were several occasions where I didn't like the first layer, and I remove it before I restart all over again.

These are the latest mousse cup desserts I've made. I'm currently making blueberry ones (another experimental breakthrough). More pictures, hopefully next week when I complete them!


It's hard to tell from the photos, but these cups are really only 1.4cm tall.

Chocolate Trio Mousse Cup Desserts ~ SOLD

Strawberry Mousse Cup Desserts

Strawberry Mousse Cup Desserts can be purchased at my etsy shop : http://www.miniaturepatisserie.etsy.com/

Turquoise and Pink Treasury

I found myself in this lovely treasury of Turquoise and Pink items!! The colours are just too beautiful! Thanks to Michele for picking me!

Show and Tell ~ Christmas Papertole

I did mention about papertole craft several weeks ago. Never did I realized it was quite a challenging and tedious craft. Actually I do find it more difficult than miniature making in a way. The difficulty comes in precision cutting, gluing, and everything needs to be neat. Also the difficulty comes in knowing what to cut, where to cut, how to glue it, how high and at what angle to glue it. There is still a lot to learn for me.

I finished my first papertole project and it has been framed up beautifully. I love how it looks!

This took quite a long time to complete, as you can see, different medium were used besides the original papertole design. Dried flowers, moss, beads, glitter, cotton wool were used in this piece.

Here's the completed project.

I'm currently still working on my 2nd piece, which I will show it when I am finished. :)

Show and Tell ~ 1:12 Scale Dollhouse Miniature Shabby Chic Framed Applique Decor

Last week, I took a break from making patisseries and experimented making some dollhouse miniature framed applique decor. I am not sure if you experienced the same thing as me, but I find a lack of quality shabby chic decorations around to decorate my pieces. I do admit that sometimes I have very precise ideas of how I want it to be like, what colour it should be in etc. I like white a lot these days. I like how clean and simple it looks. So, I ended up trying to make my own shabby chic decorations.

A white applique decor, which I made it, and glued it to the dis-stressed frame I made myself too. I like how clean and detailed it looks!

This looks extremely good on the wall, just on the shelf or kitchen counter. Your eyes will be immediately drawn to its details.

I aim to make them in various colours too.

It measures only 2.5cm by 2.5cm

Available at my etsy shop now : http://www.miniaturepatisserie.etsy.com/

1:12 Scale Deep Fried Breaded Chicken Thigh

Due to my recent classes on Saturday, I'm always in a rush for lunch. My class starts at 1pm. I usually have a light breakfast early in the morning, finish some chores and rush out to have lunch and then go for classes. A couple of times, I was terribly hungry, and had a craving for deep fried chicken chop. I passed by this Japanese restaurant, that serves pretty reasonable lunch set. I remembered their deep fried chicken was sooo good. Hence I was very inspired to make this.

A large serving of greens by the side, with lettuce, cucumber, tomato and a slice of hard boil egg. I like my dressing by the side, so I added some thousand island salad sauce by the side.

Plus, a slice of lemon so that you can squeeze it right on top of the chicken top!

Enjoy!

Show and Tell Monday ~ 1:12 Scale Dollhouse Miniature Gingerbread House

I was thinking about what miniature art piece I wanted to create this christmas. I had various ideas and I even have something started midway but stopped halfway. Haha.

I have never eaten a gingerbread house before, but I'm sure I saw some in real life which I can't recall how it looks like right now. They are usually darker brown in colour, due to the use of raw sugar, and they are also often decorated with lots of candies and chocolates which the kids love. I wanted to create something a little different, maybe something that appeals to the adults and ladies who have the similar taste as myself.

I imagine one with lots of different types of patisserie. I'm not really a candy person in real life, but I really like pastries, cakes etc. So my idea was to incorporate such into my dollhouse miniature gingerbread house.

When I started my miniature gingerbread house base, I knew I would want a lighter colour base. Flaky, lightly baked crust would be my choice - with powder sugar sprinkled on it too! The door reminds me of my favourite childhood snack - sugar on the top biscuit! The little so-called attic window was made of a donut with partial filled strawberry jam. The windows on the side were made of strawberry jam biscuits.

The roofs were first drenched in chocolate sauce, and followed by profiteroles in assorted flavours. To top if off, I decorated it with fluffy airy white mini meringues.

Tiny bushes by the side, sprinkled with snow and berries really brings out the christmas flavour of this piece.

I'll leave you to your imagination, on where you want to start savoring this piece if this was a real gingerbread house. For me, it's a toss between polishing the profiteroles off one by one, or just the sugar on the top biscuit door!

It's now available at my etsy shop : www.miniaturepatisserie.etsy.com