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Shades of Summer

Still sweltering in the Summer heat we have the perfect addition to our popular range of miniature cake slices with these 4 Strawberry Marble Cake Slices! There's something so tempting about the vibrant red, whole fresh strawberries that is so evocative of sunshine and days when the light breeze is the only thing moving! The warm weather has turned the hillsides surrounding us purple almost overnight as the wild Scottish Heather has blossomed into life! Looking out from the worktable and seeing the landscape turn pink and purple almost right in front of you is quite special and encapsulates just a small piece of the magic that makes Skye so inspirational and which we always try to ensure there's a little bit of in our miniatures too!

Val & Sadie

Our Wild Scottish Heather!

                                          

Time For Gourmet Cheese!

Heading for the middle of August it seems that we're in the full grip of Summer again in the Islands! It's warm, sunny, the final day of the London 2012 Olympic Games & very hard to believe that here in the miniature world we're making our first steps towards this years Autumn/Fall/Halloween launch!! As the world marches forward and time seems to move on at an ever faster pace the stillness of the tiny miniatures around us provides a wonderful grip on the "moment" and a new addition to our Etsy store this weekend we're excited to share is this Gourmet Cheese Board filled with luxury!

Val & Sadie

Summer Cakes!

After a glorious Summers day here on the Island we would have loved to sit down in the evening sunshine and tuck in to the real version of these 4 Rose Framboise Cake Slices! It has definitely been the weather for a picnic here & some tourists actually did just that when they parked their car opposite the loch to admire our work table view! They perched on the rocks and enjoyed their lunch amongst the grass in front of Hebridean blue waters - the perfect way to spend a lunchtime!!

Back to that work table!

Val & Sadie

Date & Walnut Cake Slices - An Olympic Snack?

Making something you've never seen in miniature before is always special & that is part of why creating these 4 Date & Walnut Cake Slices was such a treat! Of course, it helps that they look delicious and awfully tempting too! Dates & Walnuts have always been some of our favourite foods so to be able to combine them in a miniature cake is wonderful! The perfect treat for the 1:12th scale family to sit down and watch a certain Important Sporting Event taking place here at the moment with!! Even here, at the opposite end of the country to London, we haven't escaped the Olympic Buzz! The supermarket stocks Official Olympic London 2012 sweets, the phone boxes have huge adverts for the Games adorning them, the cafes have special Olympic menus and a local festival even has it's own Fun Olympics Day this August, complete with races and prizes!

Val & Sadie 

 

Eye Catching Cake Slices!

There's something that makes the miniature cake very difficult to beat for eye catching! All the tiny detail in the texture of the sponge draws the eye in and makes you just want to stare at it for hours!! The addition of the different colours of sponge in these 4 Marble Cake Slices makes it even more enticing! Then of course there's these 4 Chocolate Cake Slices and any 1:12th scale chocolate miniatures are worthy of pride of place on the dollhouse table so when they're topped with mini chocolate truffles they're extra special!! Such a delight to create, we hope you enjoy these wonderful cakes as much as us!

Val & Sadie

Freshly Picked Lettuce With Caterpillars & Ladybugs!

Life is all around us, everywhere we look and the miniature world must, under no circumstances, be an exception!! There's a whole miniature world going on within the miniature world itself inside this Freshly Picked Lettuce With Caterpillars & Ladybugs! Every leaf individually handmade, it's always so much fun to see a miniature like this coming to life, bit by bit!

Summer is in full flood here & it's quite amazing to watch tourists park their cars, get out and gather round to take photographs of a view that is "just" the everyday view from your worktable! It's quite surreal to be working on new miniatures and suddenly see a group of tourists who have likely come all the way from America, Japan & so many other places having their photograph taken outside! To take us back to the begininng of this post, life is indeed all around us & comes from all across the globe to just outside the window where the worktable sits!!

Have a great start to the new week & we hope you enjoy the lettuce as much as us!

Val & Sadie