A beautiful birdcage.

Yesterday, I added a very nice birdcage to my miniatures collection.

The cage is beautifully detailed, and even has a few tiny little birds inside! It sits on a matching table, and can be displayed either with or without it. Also, its doors can be opened. I bought it in the wonderful miniatures shop of Joop & Kriena van Heeren, in Gouda, The Netherlands. It's always a joy to visit their shop, and marvel at all the beautiful items they have on display.

I still need to figure out where the cage will be placed, but I couldn't resist the temptation of putting it in my ancient "Centennial" dolls house, and take a few pictures of it!

 

 

 

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Ceramics & succulents from Malta.

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Here are some new additions to the Conservatory project; a lovely set of hand made ceramics and succulents, which arrived here from Malta. They were made specially for my project by the lovely and well known Rebecca Micallef, and obviously I'm thrilled with them! The tea set consists of two tea cups and matching plates, a tea cup, a cake stand, and two cake plates. They all have an antique pheasant theme, and look stunning!

 

  

The lovely succulents were also made by hand, leaf by leaf, and look extremely real!! I cannot express how happy I am with this totally unique set of miniatures, of which there is only one in the  whole world!

 

Many, many thanks, dear Rebecca, for these little gems! They will look great in the Conservatory!! 

 

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The Conservatory: A nightly snapshot.

 Hi all, I hope you're doing well!

As the 'Conservatory' project nears completion, I take little breaks amidst the work in progress to play a bit with my camera. Here's an atmospheric, 'nocturnal' snapshot of the conservatory's front garden. I tried to recreate the beautiful, mysterious atmosphere of the movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s that I love so much, and I think I succeeded pretty well in doing that.

Now I want you to look at this photo, and imagine a late summer night in a garden; the cool fresh air of the night caressing your face, the faint scent of flowers, a cricket performing his nocturnal serenade...  Get the picture?

 

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The Centennial: a mysterious view of the kitchen.

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Family Portraits.

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With the conservatory project nearing completion, it's time to add the final details to it. Those come in very gradually, because I want them to 'grow' in place, as if they've always been there.

One of the latest additions are a few old family portraits. I remember growing up seeing these at my parents home, that is, the full scale version of them. And in fact they're part of the very few surviving portraits of that era. 

From left to right you see my mom when she was a few months old, my grandparents, and then my mom again, when she was a little girl. The gentleman on the right is the iconic tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), whose songs I love. 

So, in the end, this project ended up being a tribute to my mom and her parents, that is, my grandparents. I never knew my grandma; she passed away very young, when my mom was only 5 years old. From her portrait I can see she was a beautiful lady, very sophisticated, and played the piano very well. In fact she was a piano teacher. My grandpa passed away some 40 years ago already, but I was lucky to be his 'favourite grandson' for most of my childhood. He claimed having met the famous 'Che' Guevara and shaking his hand, when the latter visited my home country in 1961. He was quite proud of that. I still miss him very much.

 

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