Re-Ment gifts

My brother came with birthday gifts for me =) He was in Germany on my birthday, so he came to visit last weekend instead, bringing gifts (from Japan, and some chocolate from Germany)  =)

This needle felting kit is very cute =)

Two Re-Ment sets.

I guess it was a surprise for everyone which set of the 8 different sets shown on the box, that actually was inside the box. At least I could not figure out what was inside =) My Japanese is.. well I cant even read a word, so I don't know if it is written somewhere on the box or not =)

My Melody set

 I got number 1. (number 1 or 5 was my favourite, so I was lucky to get one of them =) )

This was inside the box too, I guess it's candy?! 

I don't know if I dare to eat it.. But it should be safe, right?! Not a bag of some drying powder or something like that, that you should NOT eat.. =)

The cup is very cute! And I love the teabag =)

Rilakkuma set

Here number 8 was my favourite set, and guess what? I got number 8 =)

The sign is very cute!

My daughter really liked these too, and I let her play with them a few days, she is very careful and it's fun when we can enjoy minis together =)

And then I got mail from I love little things =) I won these beautiful cutlery, Thank you very much!!

Take care

Hannah

Twin stars

I bought these from a FB group, 10kr for everything. I only wanted the swan with the kids. But when I got everything, I want it all =)

I don't think any of these things are complete, I found this link, here you can see that there are things missing for almost all this things:

http://www.hellokittyjunkie.com/2010/07/09/sanrio-x-re-ment-little-twin-stars-welcome-party-hoshizora-set/

The hourglass should have two cute figures on it. The big flat star should be a cookie stand, in two levels, the star cakes should be on a plate, The vase has the right flowers, but the swan lacks a spoon. The star with a hole in it, I have no idea what it is for. 

I might just try to fix the cookie stand, or use it as a plate =) Everything is so cute. I never heard of Twin stars before, seen some Re-ment stuff with these, but never really looked at them. So glad I found these =)

 How cute are these? really I just love them!!!

We are still sick here, but are getting a bit better. And the sun is shining and I have plant a lot of seeds, I have always dreamt of a garden, but we only have a balcony here, but since last year, they built us a bigger one, with glass all around. So yesterday we had 5°C outside, but there were sun on the balcony and 23°C so I sat out there planting a lot of new seeds. Lovely to be able to sit in the sun, even do it's cold outside =) 

I did do some needlefelting in the sun too, I'll show you more of that later, but now I'd like to show one of my plants that has grown big already, a bell pepper. I never tried that before, so I'm so happy it actually is growing and making a bell pepper for us, and it looks like we will get even more of them soon =) 

The snow has started to melt away, we still have quite a lot on places they haven't been taking away any of the snow, but you can see quite a lot of grass outside our house now =) Specially this sunny side of our house.

Take care!

Hannah

Got some mail

I LOVE getting mail =) email is fun, but regular mail is just wonderful! And when it contains miniatures, it's the best!!!

Awhile ago I could not resist these miniatures.. so I bought them on FB.. (I think the balloons, which are too cute, are Re-ment, they should be in a box..) And the toy monkey is so very cute, but it was broken when I got it =( But I've glued it together again.

Didn't think I was going to save the teddy bear, but... I get too attached to things, quickly.. so the bear just run into my house before I could think of selling him..

Here he is, hiding behind and cuddling with one of my own bears..

But I guess Birgit agrees with me, one can never have too many bears.. ;)

Have no idea were this monkey originally came from, but he is really cute!!

Then I got a consultation prize in a guessing contest on FB, and the woman who held the competition knew I like fabrics, and retro patterns, so she sent me some retro fabrics. Lovely! Now I just need to collect enough courage to cut into them and make something out of them.. I always spend a great deal of time not knowing what to do, how to, and if I really should cut a lovely fabric like that...

I also got the last issue of Miniatyrvärlden, the one and only miniature magazine in Sweden. And guess what, I saw my name in it =) But it shouldn't have been there.. It was a picture of Anna's miniature houses, and it said that it was from Hanna and Annas miniatyrer. (First of all I spell my name with an extra h, most swedes don't, but I do =) ) and second of all Anna and I shared a table, but we didn't sell together, we just shared the space =) and Anna has miniatures, the English word for miniatyrer.. and it was Anna's houses, so my name shouldn't even be there.. but it was nice to see it ;)
Anna's mini-Lundby-houses are wonderful, I got one myself, you can see one of her houses in this post: http://hannahsminiatyrer.blogspot.se/2014/04/stockholms-miniatyrmassa-april-2014.html
or at her blog: http://www.annasminiatures.blogspot.se/2013/12/mini-lundby-house.html

And I also bought some books from a FB group (I love how there are lots of FB groups about miniatures) I bought 1 book and 2 magazines. (I will write more about the book later)

And then a very nice lady got lots of watchmaker stuff, glass and pointers. And she wanted to share with all who wanted something, and I asked for some glass (for tables) and some pointers, for candlesticks. Just needed to pay the postage, a great deal =)

Then I bought a glass cabinet, I have longed for this a long while, and finally I got it at a great price, on FB. I'm thinking of repainting it. Maybe green, blue or some other bright colour?! I'll think about that.

And when I went to a flee-market to buy some new dresses for my little girl (she loves dresses) I found these cute animals. My little girl got a few, the rest I kept for myself =)

I thought they could look good in a dollhouse..

I think I was right =)

I've been on a shopping spree... have to stop that now. We have very little space at home.. and I earn 0kr a month.. so I shouldn't go around spending money like this... But I LOVE shopping =) and I did sell a few things, some collectable items and miniatures, so I felt like I could spend that money, right away =)

Before I ended my shopping spree I did order a hand mixer too, looked several times, and then when I got just enough money, I spent it all on this wonderful thing =)
Her blog: http://minifanaberia.blogspot.se and the Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/202858666/miniature-hand-mixer-with-removable?ref=related-4

  It's wonderful and you can even remove the beaters and the dough hooks!

I got a little gift too, a sign =)

The miniature next to my real one =)

I have gotten so many great mails lately, I'll have to stop buying things now.. but it was fun while it lasted ;)

 Take care

Hannah

Back, again =)

I think I spoke a bit to soon last time, saying I was back.. I was back home, but no more than that.. But now I have been catching up on blogs and made a few miniatures, but not that much..
Not much going on in my miniature house right now.. And I miss the summer and the heat, my daughter got a cold, I have been cleaning and doing laundry after our vacation.. and feel kinda uninspired..

But I did finish a rug, and started a tutorial on that, will be posting that soon, I hope =)

Is there a nativity scene I see there on the left?! Looks like noone has been here to clean since last Christmas..

I have a feeling my mini-family The Pettersson's took a vacation too. Looks like they have been doing some laundry too ;) (Tutorial on my washing machine is here: http://hannahsminiatyrer.blogspot.se/2013/11/making-washing-machine.html seem to be the post most people have read actually =) )

My white poodle tried lying on the new rug I made =) This rug will turn up in a tutorial soon =)

I don't know what the Pettersson's say about dog's in beads, but I haven't made the final bed set for this bed yet, so I'll allow it for now..

My brother went to Japan to study for a couple of months, I would have LOVE to come with him, or just visit him there, but it's a bit too expensive for me (and with all the wonderful dolls and miniatures they have over there, it would most certainly be an expensive trip for me;) ), and I have my family to look after too =) So I settle with buying some Re-ment plates instead... and some cute toys =) Found them in a group on Facebook.

You know I love toys, and I just couldn't resist these babies!! I have not showed them to my daughter, she would have taken them in a heartbeat......

I decided to try selling these bears on Etsy, I started with the green one, and I just got the grey/brown one out on Etsy too, the other one might just get out there when I get the time =) And I started to work on the "bear-line-up". A brown, a blue and a white teddy bear is in the making.
It's strange but ever since the fair I haven't felt like doing any cats and dogs.. Or I want to make them, but I just can't.. I have started on a cat, but I never feel like doing the head.. it's a headless cat at the moment.. I might get over that soon, but until then I'll keep doing bears, I enjoy that and I like to have them in all kind of colours =)

There was going to be a Stockholm miniature show this fall too, just like the one I was at in April. But I couldn't go, I haven't made enough things and it gets to expensive to go just as a visitor =) And then they cancelled the show because of troubles with the hotel (I was very happy then that I didn't bought any tickets to Stockholm), but now Miniaturemama Lena and friends are going to set up a new show 26/10, so if you are near Stockholm, go and take a look, I wont be there, but I know they will have a LOT of fun over there!
Read more about it here: http://miniatyrmama.blogspot.se/2014/09/stockholm-miniature-show.html

Take care
Hannah