Miniature Monday: Purchases from Karen Aird's Show

Loretta Kasza created this lovely lady.  Her dress and face are beautiful.  I also love the nice work on her fingers, the porcelain is so clean.

Bespaq - I also purchased 2 matching chairs and coffee table.  This set is so incredibly dainty in person.

I've been trying to limit my purchases to actual projects I will use the item in, but have to admit I couldn't resist this set.

I purchased a few of these to use as fillers in my antique shop.

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Miniature Monday: Karen Aird's 4th Annual Miniature Show

On Sunday the ladies and I took the 1 hour trip to Warren, New Jersey for Karen Aird's 4th Annual Holiday Show (Click Here for her Website). Here are some general highlights:

I wanted to buy........ALL of them.

This picture cannot do the paintings or needlepoint rugs justice!

The bookshelf is full of the most amazing handcrafted books.  The artist, Marilyn Crockette, told me the rugs take her months to complete.  I can believe that since my bath mat kit took me a million years (still not done.....)

This show was the perfect size for me. One large ballroom and the outside hall.   I am easily distracted by conversation and really love to chat with the vendors, especially ones I've never met and those who handcraft their items. I also have to look at absolutely everything on each table.  I got caught up at a vendor selling back issues of magazines  and waging a marketing campaign the likes of which I've never seen.  They host a new online community for miniaturists Smallisimo (click here for their website).  I was very excited to meet their team and look forward to browsing their site.  I'm ridiculous about my miniature magazine collection.  They are arranged on one huge wall in my home office and I have an excel workbook to keep track of which ones I have and which I'm missing.  I refer to them all the time for how-to's and inspiration.

This show was amazing, Karen did a great job.  Back when I made porcelain dolls and was a vendor myself, Karen and I always had our tables next to or near each other.   I was thrilled when she mentioned she would be starting her own show in our area!  At yesterday's show, Karen provided a buffet of snacks, coffee, tea and water available all day to the vendors and shoppers.  She even had her young helpers walking around handing out fresh baked goodies to keep your shopping energy up!  That was such a great idea, I didn't even break for lunch.  I bought a lot of good stuff!  Close up photos of my favorite items in upcoming posts.

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Miniature Monday: Lehigh Valley Miniature Show

These treasures are from Feather Your Nest. Their ebay store is Feather-Your-Nest-Miniatures and can be found HERE 

For the cowboy in my saloon. 

These three lovely girls were from an estate sale table. 

I love this furniture from my friends at Jessica's Miniatures.  I love catching up with Nick. Their prices are so reasonable and they always have new miniatures on their table.  Their website, jessicasminiatures.com can be found HERE

If I show you guys any more, you'll know just how much I LOVE to shop so that's it for now!

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Miniature Monday: More treasures from the Lehigh Valley Miniature Show

Handcrafted by Joyce Slimmons.  Aren't these pieces lovely?  Everything is 1/12th scale.  She had all of these pieces and several more artfully arranged on 3 acrylic floors inside a birdcage.  The entire birdcage with it's stand was sold together with the miniatures.  I am so happy to have purchased her work, I love it!

 Thank you for looking!



Miniature Monday: Lehigh Valley Miniature Show

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Last weekend, my girlfriends and I attended the Lehigh Valley Miniature Show.  The show is hosted by the Lehigh Valley Small on Scale Miniatures Club. You can click HERE  for their website.   We make the 2 hour trek from Brooklyn to Pennsylvania every year and really enjoy the show.  It's a small show, which is perfect for me since I take forever to look at each table.  I always manage to find incredible miniatures from talented artists.  I'll be sharing some of my goodies over the next few posts. 

I spent a fair amount of time at Arlene Finkelstein's table (Artistic Florals.)  She's an inspirational miniaturist who loves to teach others her beautiful techniques.   While I love flower making, I LOVE flower buying even more.  Remembering how hard I worked on the lemon tree she taught me, when I saw this orange tree on her table, I bought it immediately.

These two arrangements caught my eye and I had to have them for my kitchen roombox.

 The two tiny pots on the right are 1/2" scale sunflowers.

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