Busy in the Kitchen

While I'm working on some more DIY goodies for my boutique, I decided to play around with some of the bits and pieces I received for Christmas to create a kitchen dresser scene.

These jam jars are from Maple Street and came with the cute gingham lids.

 

The other items are bits and pieces I have collected over the years. 

 

The fruit basket is from the Dolls House Emporium and has little rustic strands of straw peeking out among the fruit.

And that's it for now, see you soon :)

DIY Cake Stand & Cakes

There's something about a cake stand filled with a yummy selection of desserts that is irresistible to me. It might also be the reason why I have a growing collection of tiered cake stands that are amassing at the end of my dining table in 'real life'. If only I filled them with delicious cakes as enthusiastically as I filled this miniature one!

I started with two miniature plates, purchased online as a set, and a gold link, stolen from an unfortunate necklace.

I wanted the cake stand to tie-in with the gold trimmed tea set from my previous post, so I got out the Judson's Gold Paint and set about changing the trim from pink to gold.

Finished plates:

  Then, with the aid of superglue, I attached the gold link on the bigger plate, and the smaller one on top of it, and...

Ta-dah!

 

All it needs is a few French fancies to finish it off.

I made the cakes from Fimo, which I cut into squares, baked and painted white. And, while the paint was still tacky, I rolled them in dust from chalk pastel crayons to give the 'powder sugar-dust' effect.

 

I then made little cases from circles cut from greaseproof paper which I shaped around the cakes.

And the finished look is, if I can say so myself, good enough to eat!