Custom pet portraits, hand made cake toppers

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Waiting for Christmas...

My new Christmas listings have been featured in these beautiful treasuries, very inspiring collections!! Thank so much to all!!! :)

My Snowman Cake topper in
Waiting for Christmas...By vivislab




and

Christmas Brides....

By CrystalImpressions






My boy art doll OOAK in 

Have Yourself a One of a Kind Christmas

By starflycreations


 My girl art doll OOAK in
Christmas Believe


Have a look to their shops by clicking on the images below:

Vivislab
CrystalImpressions

starflycreations
MKrisArt


 


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Hand painted toy chest ispired by Tinkerbell, custom order

C
ustom toy chest with 


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♥•.*TINKERBELL*.•♥
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 I painted it for a little fairy girl, who has decorated her "magic" room like a glittering garden!

 
It is painted in non-toxic water based acrylic paints, and protected with a brilliant varnish finish, so it is washable.
I applied many glitters on the surface…were left by this cute fairy!




Sunday, October 16, 2011

Monkey cake topper!


Very fun couple of monkeys with a personalized banner for groom and bride names.


These monkeys are sitting, bride monkey is holding a yellow and white bouquet and is wearing a white veil, note that the handle of the bouquet is a banana peel!!
The groom monkey is wearing a yellow bow tie and a black bowler hat.
Both have rhinestones.



 On the wedding cake!


You can find them here:
in my Etsy shop!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

My garden of miniatures...

I

 want to show you my little secret, romantic garden of miniatures!

I love dollhouse miniatures and I wanted to create some for a mini garden.
The first is this vase with pink roses, I modeled the roses with lot of love, petal by petal, I used a terracotta pot as base and I left it natural.
A very romantic and poetic vase of roses!


Pink roses terracotta vase miniature




This is a miniature of my bonsai, it is the studio where I paint so I see it every day.

Bonsai miniature



The last vase is with red poppies, I painted a terracotta pot to give it a shabby color, perfect to give a country touch!

Red poppies miniature in a shabby vase





I painted a terracotta fountain with a lion head to give it an antique look and I modeled some little white roses and leaves to decorate it.

Lion fountain miniature with white roses




Saturday, October 8, 2011

Butterfly award!

 

~♥~ I received this award from http://www.sweetbirdmemories.blogspot.com/

Thank you Lluvia!!
I'm so happy that you chose me!!
In order to accept this award I must answer these questions: 
Q1) Name your favorite color? Purple, lilac 
Q2) Name your favorite song?  Where the streets have no name- U2
Q3) Name your favorite dessert?  Pistachio ice cream

Q4) What annoys you at the moment? Winter is starting...

Q5) Your favorite pet?  My loved dog, my best friend

Q6) Black or White?  Zebra

Q7) Your biggest fear? Something happens to the people I love

Q8) Best Feature? My green eyes

Q9) Everyday attitude? Life is short, live your dreams
 
 
Q10) What is perfection?  Love
Q11) Guilty Pleasure?  Pizza!

Q12) When you're upset you?  Listening to my favourite songs

I have decided to pass these award to Kathryn, I absolutely love her beautiful, cute, funny stuffed creatures!!
You can meet her creatures at http://mymusers.blogspot.com/

Kathryn, now you can give this award to anybody you think is worthy. 
Then link back here and don't forget to paste the award to your blog.  
And dont forget in order to accept the award you have to answer the questions, they're fun!





Monday, October 3, 2011

It is autumn, time to grape harvest and “Sughi”!! ( a delicious recipe…)

I
n my region, Emilia Romagna, it’s time to grape harvest. 


Farm wagons full of grapes go to wineries for pressing and processing into Lambrusco, a typical wine of this area.


At this time of harvest, for generations, grapes are squeezed in farmhouses also to do a traditional grapes juice pudding, called “Sugo”(plural: "sughi").
Grapes are well washed and grains squeezed to obtain grape juice.

This is my grandmother recipe, that my mother follow, as she taught her.
I love the colors of this recipe: the beautiful purple of the grape juice, the bright colors of the grapes, are perfect to start autumn…




First of all grape juice is placed in a bowl.



•´¯`*♥*´¯`•The secret is: to each glass of grape juice correspond a flour spoon, so you have to count how many juice glasses there are and add the same number of flour spoons.



Gradually add the juice to the flour, stirring all the time not to form lumps.
You can also add some sugar, but if the grape juice is sweet, like this year, it’s not necessary.







I love this mix of colors!



Wonderful purple!!





This mixture is poured into a steel pan and cooked over low heat, always stirring with a wooden spoon.



When it boils, is cooked.
With a ladle is poured into dishes, bowls and mugs.






Leave it to cool.
Then it keeps in the fridge for a week, but I have never achieved this record, they have always been eaten first!
For me it’s the taste of autumn, taste and color of my land, that makes me feel the weight of lost things.