Miniature Monday

Today I would like to introduce you to the room box I made for my sister-in-law's 50th birthday. I based it on the kitchen of the house she shares with my mother and father-in-law, which is in an old rectory and quite 'in period'.

I only have the one photograph of this one, which I took before I gave it to her. She was absolutely thrilled with it and hung it on her sitting room wall, where it still is, 14 years later.

 

 

I made sure to try and include all the details that make it 'hers'. The Aga was the first necessity as that is what is in their kitchen, as well as the wooden panelling to the side. Her daughter is a very good artist and has always doodled and left bits of her artwork around the kitchen, so we acquired one and I scanned it in, reduced it down and stuck it onto the panelling. Carrie is known for her singing - she sings as guest soloist with the Megavissey Male Voice Choir and at other Cornish concerts, so I put her music satchel, with music in, next to the Aga.

We had to include a chicken as Carrie has kept chickens for as long as I have known her. She has occasionally found one in the kitchen too! Of course, her dog, Jenny, had to be there - well as close as I could find anyway.

On the mantlepiece are a pile of courgettes. Carrie is a very keen gardener, but when she plants courgettes they always all seem to take and then she has a huge glut of them and can't give them away quickly enough!

I also put a birthday card on the mantlepiece and the calendar shows her actual birthday.

She was absolutely thrilled with it, and I have to say that I had great fun in making it all. I loved cross stitching the little cushion on the chair - it was tiny stitches though!

Thank you for looking and look out for another installment next week!