Julie Lawton....

Julie Lawton is better known as Little Characters or more recently Cottage Kitty Miniatures.
Julie has been making miniatures for the last 10 years and has been an exhibitor at Miniaturia and Kensington Dolls House Festival. Julie specialized in Tiny Tudor Mice. Julie very kindly allowed me to use her pictures to show you all. I Love the little Mice. Julie still makes her little characters to order. If your interested in a Little Character, please contact Julie direct.
I recently brought some tiny little Bird Skulls, and a tiny little book from Julie for Diagon Alley. Julie also made me a lovely little Witch shaped hat pin stand. Which will go into my Witches Hat Shop when I eventually get round to making it. I really struggled to get a good picture of this to share, its really tiny.
Julie's is currently selling her miniatures in her her Etsy Shop and on Ebay.
Please pop over to Julie's blog and say Hi...

Halloween House

While we were in Carmarthen, last week. I popped into TKMaxx, to have a look round. They had a few Halloween bits in, on a table there were two small Halloween Houses. I walked over and picked one up, and as I did I spied this larger one tucked under the table, with some other Halloween bits and pieces.
I debated whether to get this, or a large set of stacked Pumpkins, that also took tea lights. But as you can see, the House won out. I've had one hell of a job photographing it. If you click on the photographs, they will pop up bigger.
It takes five tea lights, not that I've tried that out yet. I showed this to my friends over on Facebook and was asked how big it was, so here's the measurement's in case anyone else is interested.
The base it stands on, measures width 14.5ins and depth is 10.5ins. The House itself measures Depth 9ins, width 12ins and the height to the top of the scalloped roof is 15ins.
I think it would look lovely decorated with Pumpkins around the House and there is plenty of room to hang things from the branches on the trees. Maybe even a little bench outside would look good, or even some Crows on the Roof...

Fantasy Sculpture...

While I was trawling the internet yesterday for some inspiration for the Garden. I came across this site, Brunos Art and Sculpture Garden.
The Garden is located in Marysville, Australia. Unfortunately, in February 2009 a bush fire raged through the Garden's, but through all the adversity, the Sculptor is painstakingly rebuilding.
There are some fabulous Sculptors and what inspiration for some miniature creations. There are lots more over on the web site.
The bottom photograph was another one, I found on the web, but there was no information to go with it..
Thank you, to My Wee Life, who left a comment letting me know that the bottom Sculpture, is located at The Lost Gardens Of Heligan.

The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter...

Well it's finally opened in Florida USA, The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter. Here's a News Report on the opening and also a blog called Mickey Ears & Magic Wands, has also written about the experience.
It sounds by the reports, that it is an amazing experience and wouldn't it be wonderful to walk the Village of Hogsmeade and browse in all the shops. See the Castle and ride the rides.
But I still think, it should have been built in the United Kingdom. Just think what it would have done for the Tourist Industry over here, and the jobs it would have created. I just can't imagine Harry Potter with a Americanised accent, it will be like Dick Van Dyke, in Mary Poppins all over again. And lets face it how many British, Harry Potter fans, will be able to afford to travel to the U.S.A?. Here's one that can't, well maybe, if I win the Lottery.

The Witch Of The West...

Kate started this off over on her blog, then Kat had a go and then Nikki. If you click on their names, it will take you over to their blogs so you can see their pictures for yourself. So I thought I couldn't miss out on the fun, so went over to the site and tried it out for myself. Here I am as the Wicked Witch of The West and couldn't resist sticking Mick's face on Hagrids Body... LOL..

If you want to try it out yourselves here's the link:-
FACEinHole.com
If you do post them on your blogs, so we can all have a giggle...