Swimming pool

Some of you would not believe this will happen in 2011- well, well well.....
here are the first steps toward it. the swimming pool is done as you can see, now I play around the deck's idea.
I found these barbecue skewers which would fit perfectly ....
I have a dilemma : shall I put the deck straight or diagonal. What do you think?

We love cupcakes

" I love cupcakes, especially the pink ones....... I wish someone will get me a few for my birthday." My niece declared quite close to her 20th birthday.

So her aunt got busy making a few, eternally sweet out of papiermache.

I enjoyed  so much making them, and she loved getting her present.
What you see ,when enlarged, is more or less life size.

The green "Tutu skirt  " and the" Mini cake on a cupcake" are my favorites!

The pink one and the tall one both decorated with cherries are my nieces choise-

Justly so ,after all - she wanted PINK....

Being sick two weeks before chtistmas

Every year I look forward so for the opportunity on our decoration spree- Christmas!
 Its the highlight of the whole year. And just now- I fell sick with severe bronchitis.
No more decorations with the kids, no cookies backing or party planning....
I tried to do my best by remote control. And the kids- they were so grateful! It is just a joy that not only the present class ( 6th grade ) cared but the 7th ( even the boys) and 9th as well. They wrote greetings, sent decorations and cookies they made at school.
Happiness is in the small details- And so I send you all the best for the new year.

Chanuka- last days of....

Chanuka is the Jewish holiday more or less at the same time as Chistmass. Its a holiday I love. Its happy and one can truely say "happy Chanuka"So I choose happy colors, made some doughnuts, invited my miniature Liat to join and we watched the "Comedia del Arte" I found in
Covent Garden.
I had my singing birds join in and both "Hamsa" on the wall should bring us internal luck

saved from the garbage

 

I adore this one above all!

The rest are a bit to small .....and not my type really. But had to be saved . 

By the way - if it wasn't for Liat my friend and teacher who gave it to me as a gift for Chanuka- i woulodn't be able to show this.

the little Raggedy Andy was bought in Covent Garden 

You might wander what takes me so long to show new stuff here- this time its a prolonged cold- with a temperature running up and down....

London Re-visited

I spent a wonderful 5 days in London. After not being here 10 years the place certainly improved. I had so many plans but time was too short…. I also expected to see more minis ‘ this didn’t work out because it was very difficult to find. I bought a few things I found at Paperchase, in Covent Garden market and this was more or less it.

Hamleys was so disappointing…..they only had Lundby Smaland and all the furniture and accessories seemed so shabby and are so costly… what do you find in it , people?

I visited some beautiful exhibitions: The Gauguin retrospective at the Tate Modern, the Art treasures from Budapest at the Royal Academy  and a wonderful show- Affordable art  in the middle of Battersea park here are some impressions:

 At my hotel-some hotel I can tell you.....

At Tha affordable art show- you can see  that shoes are one of my weaknesses.....

I loved this piece of art, it reminded me of my mini world.

 A Recycled Chandelier at Antropologie - Run to see interior design!

Black- white- silver

There were many reasons to show this scene. Glenda sent me her wonderful wall hanging. Oese a wonderfull friend sent a lot of goodies.Thank you , thank you,thank you.
Of course they had to be show ASAP!
And if for no reason at all, this is a tribute to John Lenon  70's birthday.
The result  is a go between a gallery and an somewhat "cold" lounge.I like it though!

Goods : are by Reac, PRD, Glenda Howell,Oese,various personal possessions .
The acrylic lucite cube is a paperweight from the Israel museum in Jerusalem, clock bought at SOHO in Tel Aviv.