The Shopping Sherpa

Thought you'd like to see a couple of pictures of my (half) stall all set up and ready to go for tomorrow's ACT Miniature Enthusiast...

That would be both me and the range of knitted pouffes I've just finished for my (half) stall at this weekend's mini show.

My Vistaprint stationery samples arrived today. They're looking good. I'm very excited!

While doing a little Googling for miniature suppliers before my upcoming trip to Wellington, I stumbled across this: Contemporary Dolls H...

Thanks to Mini Modern for talking about the drive-by stare in her recent post . I have similar problems but, since I create my scenes rig...

After pulling out far too many choices for the notice board from my boxes of paper treasures I narrowed it down to a selection that to...

Today I returned to the stack of magnetic frames I bought a week or so ago , intending to make a proper scene with one (hopefully trying ou...

How lucky am I? I won Mini Dork 's Dotsam stag head giveaway recently. It arrived last week with some extra padding in the form of a...

Giant grass bunnies found their way onto the cafe patio . Art or topiary? I'll let you decide.

My new house told me it was actually a cafe called Pavilion in the Park which sells ice creams, drinks and light snacks. Alrighty then. ...

Ten point to Call of the Small for her guess on yesterday's post : yes, it's a Vero bungalow/summer house (the  Zerlegbar, to be ...

 (Although not everyone would agree with me...) In the tradition set by Call of the Small , I shall entice (and possibly frustrate) ...

Pay week. Friday. There was only one thing for it: head to see what was new (and cheap) at Typo ! I picked up a scrapbooking paper pack ...

It was the sort of weekend where I went in with good intentions but spent most of it not really doing anything at all (except trying to cat...

I'm hot. And tired. And grumpy. And have been fighting off a headache for two days. Not the most creative of circumstances, really. Bu...

Every few months, when they're between exhibitions, the owners of the Editions Gallery organise a guerrilla dining event in the galler...

A new gallery just opened in town. (Owned by the same folk who own Limited ) (Credits: Chair by In the Twelfth Scale , vintage table f...

I bought a new window from the dolls house shop last weekend and spent some time yesterday microwaving it and pulling off all the zhushy bi...

Summer's definitely here. Today's forecast is for a top of 39 degrees (102.2 for my American readers) and it's already 29 (84.2)...

But what for? Is it an upmarket real estate agents? A hotel lobby? Or, maybe, a cosmetic surgery clinic?