I will be teaching two classes at the Mooresville Miniature Show mid June this year. The first class is “Canning Green Beans”. Those taking the class will make a canner, a basket and the green beans to go in the basket as well as in the colander. They will also fill several canning jars with the snapped beans and “water”.
When you get a new Lightbox for photographing my mini foods, you get busy and re-photograph the elder products while adding new items.
I had a fun time creating some International food starting with one of my favorites, Mexican. I actually went out to eat with my son’s family to photograph what they had for dinner and then go home and recreate it in miniature using polymer clay. Here are some of the items I came up with. Below are the different Mexican dinners I made.
After starting the year with a fall resulting in a broken wrist and surgery, it is time to get back to the business of making my miniature foods. I think I need to start with a bit of organization. Do I really know what all I have in my stash of miniature dishes, pots, pans and other things? I think not! It is time to find out just what I have on hand and see what I need.
Then I need to start on my workshop submission for N.A.M.E. convention in Indianapolis next summer. I’ll leave this bit of miniature eye candy. Grandma’s Biscuits.
On August 23, 2018 I will be teaching my first major workshop at the N.A.M.E. National Convention at Charleston, SC. We will be making a Charleston Low Country Boil complete with shrimp, corn on the cob, potatoes, and smoked sausage. We will serve it up the Charleston way, on newspapers. My actual class is full. For dollhouse clubs near me, we can work it out for a workshop at your club meeting.
I have added a new member to the Martie’s Miniatures family. I am pleased to introduce Miss Hattie…short for Harriet. She will accompany me on some of my Mini events and help showcase some of the things I create. She will also go with me on some of my photoshoots. She has come to me from Korea by way of Iowa, In case you didn’t know about my other fun hobby, check out Two Little Old Ladies and a Camera. Right now, Miss Hattie is getting ready for a new hairdo.
I am still moving stuff from my old house to my apartment. I think before I move any more boxes, I need to organize what I have here and find a few major items that are missing in action during the moving process. I am contemplating changing this site to add an e-commerce area to offer the items I make as well as other mini/dollhouse items I am able to obtain. We shall see how today and the weekend go. This will become a rather interesting project for the weekend. I promise to keep everyone updated to my progress.
This year has not been my year for working on items for Martie’s Miniatures. In April, I had knee replacement surgery. I checked in at a rehab center for 20 days of RNR…NOT as who could rest in such a place. You aren’t even allowed to sleep late! However, it did help me to stay there as the PT department was excellent. I went home to out patient rehab. Staying on my eating plan was the hardest part of rehab. What part of NO WHITE BREAD do they not understand.Actually, it’s no wheat products, sugar, or white rice or potatoes.
Moving right along…. losing weight enabled me to find a lump in my breast. Yup…I now have breast cancer. Only I don’t have it right now as I had surgery. Tumor removed with a clear margin and the lymph nodes cancer free, Chemo would only help 2% so no need for that. Only radiation and a pill.
I do need to get my act together as I have a mini show in Mooresville NC on Nov 5. Check out my blog, Getting My Pink On.
