Overheard at Miniatura...
....Two ladies whilst looking at my work and admiring the characters....
"I'm going to get another man" ....
"Ooh, yes, you can't have too many"
You have to admire the energy ; )
We had a good laugh together after,
thanks for the chat ladies : )
....Two ladies whilst looking at my work and admiring the characters....
"I'm going to get another man" ....
"Ooh, yes, you can't have too many"
You have to admire the energy ; )
We had a good laugh together after,
thanks for the chat ladies : )
Doppelgänger...
Apparently, my stooped old butler here is known to a few visitors at Spring Miniatura. He had wives bringing husbands back to my stand to look at him and say 'who's that'?
Smiles and 'Just like him' abounded... I was even asked if I came from Birmingham as they felt sure I must have known him.
Well her Ladyship here says she's never known anyone like him but I'm not sure she was being complimentary...
Snippets from you...
Two lovely ladies from Denmark bought some people from me at Miniatura to go in their pub scene. They kept coming back, admiring others, sad that they were spent out. However, next day I received an email from one of them saying she was so pleased with the ones she'd bought, her husband had admired them and had I still got the old man in the pub reading the paper and the lady in the red check suit? She was in luck, I had. The next email came saying her friend wished she had bought more too, could she have the old lady in the red dress, and the man on the photo next to her please?
How many of us have done that before? ....I know I have. Happy endings all round as they were still available : )
How many of us have done that before? ....I know I have. Happy endings all round as they were still available : )
The Devil's shawl.......
Can you make a Welsh Baptist Minister? Yes..tell me more. My customer was told regularly as a girl by a very stern minister that she had the devil in her, wagging his finger to a picture on the wall indicating she mend her behaviour or else.
The picture 'Salem' (1908) by Sydney Curnow Vosper, is of a small Baptist chapel in North Wales that Vosper visited when holidaying in the area. The painting's become a Welsh icon housed in Liverpool museum. Plans are afoot to bring it home.
Bought by Lord Leverhulme it became popular when used to market Sunlight Soap. Salem's characters, all locals were paid sixpence an hour to sit for him. An old lady is walking towards her family pew, at just before ten the clock it shows she's late. Her bright shawl is a stark contrast to the sombrely dressed, suggesting the sin of vanity. In the folds of the shawl you can see the devil's face... Check it out... it's there.
Also the strange face at the window with no reference to it. Facinating stuff.
She's very pleased with my her Baptist minister... just the chapel to make now!
Look out for more snippets...you may be next
Thanks to Mr John Barnie for the 'I Say I Say I Say' snippet at the end of this page...
Did you hear about Bert & Eadie?… they've got their own page, take a look.
" look what I bought off ebay Del"...
Everyone enjoyed the humour of 'That Hat' once it was spotted on my stand at Kensington. It bought lots of smiles to lots of faces giving us plenty to chat about regarding the wedding hat extravaganza for the royal wedding.
I think Bea may be having the last laugh though, good for her for taking it in good humour and auctioning it for charity on ebay.. how much did it go for...anyone know?
Everyone enjoyed the humour of 'That Hat' once it was spotted on my stand at Kensington. It bought lots of smiles to lots of faces giving us plenty to chat about regarding the wedding hat extravaganza for the royal wedding.
I think Bea may be having the last laugh though, good for her for taking it in good humour and auctioning it for charity on ebay.. how much did it go for...anyone know?
The lady who knitted the Royal Wedding...and only got the corgi's left to do...
Chatting to a mother and daughter enjoying my Del boy & Rodney wedding scene at Kensington, I told them of a book I'd seen 'Knit Yourself the Royal Wedding'.. and she said 'I've got it, I've made it! Knit them all' What the corgi's as well I asked. 'No but I'm doing them next' she said smiling. I had to laugh with her. She runs a pub in London and displayed them on the bar for the customers to enjoy...a lovely story, & people say I've lots of patience doing what I do...no contest!
Overheard at KDF I've bought a naked man so that I can dress him myself'…...'ooh, I love these, I know people who look just like that'...... 'I don't know where I'm going to put it but I just had to buy it'....
'I never tell him how much it cost'.... 'I don't mind him watching football, I can get on with my dolls house' ....'ooh look, is that the queen?'........'It can be for my birthday'
And questions asked....Are the dolls for sale...Did you make the dog..You don't use moulds?...How long does it take you to make one....Do they move...where do you get your ideas from...What are they made of...Did you make them...You make the clothes as well?...How long have you been doing them...Can I buy a flag... And then there was the lady who wanted to buy my photo reference book?? You're a crazy lot but great fun....thank you for taking an interest in my work and for all the lovely things you say about them.... It makes the hard work for the exhibitions all worth while : )
Chatting to a mother and daughter enjoying my Del boy & Rodney wedding scene at Kensington, I told them of a book I'd seen 'Knit Yourself the Royal Wedding'.. and she said 'I've got it, I've made it! Knit them all' What the corgi's as well I asked. 'No but I'm doing them next' she said smiling. I had to laugh with her. She runs a pub in London and displayed them on the bar for the customers to enjoy...a lovely story, & people say I've lots of patience doing what I do...no contest!
Overheard at KDF I've bought a naked man so that I can dress him myself'…...'ooh, I love these, I know people who look just like that'...... 'I don't know where I'm going to put it but I just had to buy it'....
'I never tell him how much it cost'.... 'I don't mind him watching football, I can get on with my dolls house' ....'ooh look, is that the queen?'........'It can be for my birthday'
And questions asked....Are the dolls for sale...Did you make the dog..You don't use moulds?...How long does it take you to make one....Do they move...where do you get your ideas from...What are they made of...Did you make them...You make the clothes as well?...How long have you been doing them...Can I buy a flag... And then there was the lady who wanted to buy my photo reference book?? You're a crazy lot but great fun....thank you for taking an interest in my work and for all the lovely things you say about them.... It makes the hard work for the exhibitions all worth while : )
I say I say I say..... Well I never...
....I never thought I'd end up in Scotland Yard!
A gentleman spoke to me at KDF 'I don't suppose you remember...' and he told me about a figure he'd commissioned from me a long time ago of a collegue, Dr Bott, Chief Medical Officer when retiring from Metroploitan Police Service in 1998.
I mentally opened the dusty filing cabinets of the brain bank. Yes, I could recall it.
The figure has been kept by the family on his death with a framed photograph at the Metropolitan Police Federation in Bromley. Fancy that. Guilty as charged.
Strangely enough, when working on this figure, my son's friend asked if it was his grandad, I looked and saw that it could be, as did neighbours...It's a small world.......
A gentleman spoke to me at KDF 'I don't suppose you remember...' and he told me about a figure he'd commissioned from me a long time ago of a collegue, Dr Bott, Chief Medical Officer when retiring from Metroploitan Police Service in 1998.
I mentally opened the dusty filing cabinets of the brain bank. Yes, I could recall it.
The figure has been kept by the family on his death with a framed photograph at the Metropolitan Police Federation in Bromley. Fancy that. Guilty as charged.
Strangely enough, when working on this figure, my son's friend asked if it was his grandad, I looked and saw that it could be, as did neighbours...It's a small world.......