Crosthwaite cottage

Last fair I bought Crosthwaite Cottage from Herdwick landscapes slightly mofified to suit my needs :

  Recently I bought some furniture to go with it, and also , at the fair, I added some more smaller things to go with it ( like all that porcelain!!) . I did spend most of the afternoon trying to tack / attach my thingies into the house.

Most of them are in place now, I could just photograph them before dark.

                                               The kitchen/living room

                       
                                             Once more:

                                               Room next :

                                                     Upstairs 1 ( bed for granny?

                                                                upstairs 2

                                                          scullery etc :-)

Some more from my splashing party

Here goes:

I did serious damage both to my account and Elizabeth Bettler's stand (sorry , she has no website , but you can see 1/12 samples of her pottery here ) .

                                       This is all 1/24 or halfscale :

                                             Teapot, cups and a milk jug

                                           
                                           pots of jams, washing jugs

                                              adorable salt box to be mounted

                                             plates, saucepans, pieform

                                                    small vases,jugs

                                                   kitchen stuff together

                                                    Some fiery 1/24 kitties :

                                                             
                                                              and two ditto dogs :

                             (And, of course , a very happy 1/12 kitty, could not resist that face!)

                                         The little critters sewn by Shirley Scheibehenne :

                                          sleepy baby hare

                                           VERY sleepy ducky, flat bellied!

                                        tortoise

                                                 Little hedgehog

Some more ebay.... :-)

Yesterday three cuuuute little witches arrived here. I bought them off ebay from this seller (Andrea)

Here they are together. They will get a stone wall to sit on later on!!

I also recently purchased some 1/24 canisters by Dave Williams, also from ebay:

Adorable, arent they? They will go into my Herdwick Landscapes cottage .

Again , the Apeldoorn show

Hmm, this was a bit hard to get to the right page for posting. But I am here, finally.

Yesterday I visited the Apeldoorn fair . Obviously, I cannot drive as yet, but a friend kindly offered me a ride ( thank you Gabriëlle!) .
Thus I was also able to pick up a house , built by Herdwick Landscapes , namely Crosthwaite cottage , a version that was a bit modified to fit my windowsill (!) .
It is a LOVELY 1/24 scale house .
Here are some pictures:

This is a full view of four of its 5 rooms . I bought some furniture to go with it, but more will be added.

You may notice that there are two children in residence in the kitchen , they were made by Kate Pinsent . There are also some porcelain children, nekkid an'all, that I bought from Angel's little ones , will deal with them later!

And if you look closely enough, you can see some rats. Well, let me be honest , I bought them from Georgia Marfels and I am sure they were meant to be meeces , but I thought they would make nice little rats :-)

I am a long -time fan of Georgia and her wicked sense of humor ! She kindly allowed me to snap a pic of hers at the table. She is a lovely lady. And clever.....

Here are some of the thingies I snagged from her yesterday 

And these look big nuff in the pics , but they are very tiny .I hope to see her in Rheda again, always spend at her stall :-)

For the rest of the day I just walked around , had a good natter here and there and bought some bits and bobs for when I can do some mini-ing again. Right now, I have many ideas of course, but no way to go and try them!
Still,it was an enjoyable day, all in all.