Yesterday I received two of Rosanna's beautiful baskets in the mail. They are just the sweetest things. I told hubby they came from Italy and he said, "Ahh, Prada!" and they are so beautifully made they could be! 
Rosanna also sent some beautiful beads from Brazil - ready made vases! And two of the tiniest little glass teapots (about 17mm high!). I remember having some glass animals made in the same style when I was little.
Thank you Rosanna, all these lovely gifts will help fill up my dollhouse for the show so hopefully anyone looking at it will notice all the pretty things and not the fact that the house isn't quite finished. LOL!
Mercedes
Finally! Here is my little garden! I would like to say it is finished but I still have more ideas for things that could go in it...so if I add anything more I'll have to show it to you again later. Several members of our club have made these gardens from the same basic design, with the brick wall at the back and the 'shed' with the door at one end. However, every garden is completely different.
This little corner is, I think, my most favourite part, maybe because I LOVE that little bucket Sylvia sent me so much!
My nephew and neices had a look at the garden and their favourite thing was the gate! 
A birds eye view. 
She was one happy kid! Especially when she saw there were paints in the box!
There were stickers in the box too, this bracelet is made from the stickers
Thank you Sylvia! Liberty is still having fun making jewelery!
I am officially naming dear 
This is absolutely the most beautiful piece of dollhouse furniture I have. And it is even more beautiful because it was hand-made for me by a dear friend. I am just speechless with gratitude. look it even has cherubs on it!! I have a lot of cherubs in my 1:1 house.
Sylvia also made little cushions, a sweet little carry-box (Liberty calls it 'a girls toolbox'), some wonderful rustic shutters and a gorgeous little Bessie Pease Gutmann picture - I love her artwork.
And here are the goodies from the other package. I've had to take this pic at night time with the flash which is not ideal. Look at the delicate candle sconce and mirror - my first ever 'Reutter Porcelain'. 
Now I know Sans will ask me how I made them so here's what I used (no toothpaste caps Sans LOL!):
A while ago Sans sent me some flowers. I used the yellow paeony looking ones in the basket arrangement on the table here. 
In the latest package there were some tiny flowers that I have 'planted' in my little garden. (Rosanna - the garden should be finished this weekend, then I will reveal all! LOL!) 
Some of the large flowers had holes in them so they could be used as beads, Liberty has had great fun making jewellery! 
There were hairclips for Liberty which she loved so much she's gone to sleep in them and a little porcelain doll - which Liberty wasn't too sure about at first but today it had joined her family of dolls and was having a great time! LOL! I'm sorry I don't have pics of everything, today turned into a crazy day. We unexpectedly ended up at the cousins for dinner and got back home way later than I thought we would with one very tired and upset Liberty! I can only hope she will actually sleep in tomorrow - something she rarely does!
I went to work with my trusty little helper Liberty beside me. (Sylvia - I think you have seen this photo of Liberty before!)
The mesh I used was perhaps a little too large but I wanted to get it done so I just used what I had. 
The little flowers on it are fingernail stickers, I've been using them on all sorts of things, they look really good on mini perfume bottles, there are heaps of different kinds available and they're really inexpensive.
Well, Easter is in full swing around here! Today Liberty begged and begged to make cupcakes. Baking with her can be a bit of a trial I have to say. When she says she wants to bake what she really means is "I want to eat cake mixture". 
We'll take these cupcakes to the cousins when we go there for Easter lunch on Sunday. I made a little buttercream frosting 'nest' on top of each one and it was Liberty's job to place the candied chocolate eggs on top. Of course it was a silly job to entrust her with, I caught her licking an egg and then putting it on a cake! LOL! That one was specially set aside for her, with extra icing on top so we knew exactly which one it was.
After we had finished icing the cakes I put the icing bag on the bench, only to turn around two seconds later to see Liberty squeezing the last of the icing straight into her mouth! And to think she was so sick she couldn't eat anything just a few days ago!
I haven't made drawers because I thought I would make baskets to go in there, just have to figure out how to make them.
And all these sweet little things for her dollhouse. Look at those tiny boxes, so lovely! And the most beautiful little wicker pram with a tiny Brazilian doll in it. Marlies wrote in her letter that it was one of the first things she ever wickered. Liberty thought I'd said 'wicked' when I read the letter to her so now it is her 'wicked' pram! LOL!!
Liberty has been very sick in the past few days, just when we thought she was over her tummy bug it came back with a vengeance. Today she was still very tired (she fell asleep on the floor without eating any dinner!) Thank you Marlies that was such a sweet thing to do, you really brightened her day!
