Jaqueline Dunn miniature artist, a very sad loss.

This morning I was looking through ebay at all the wonderful miniature dollhouse items available there. I often love to browse through the dollhouse items on ebay and see what ideas other artists have come up with so that I can pin them to pinterest and hopefully gain them some exposure. This morning I noticed I hadn't seen much work recently from the wonderful miniaturist Jaqueline Dunn of a-wee-ooak. I assumed that maybe she was on holiday or taking a break from miniatures perhaps.

Later on I was looking through pinterest when I noticed someone had pinned one of Jaqueline's miniatures. I clicked on the image and was taken to her deviant art page http://wee-ooak-miniatures.deviantart.com/. What I read came as a total shock! Sadly Jaqueline Dunn passed away on the 5th May 2014 aged just 48 years old. Although I didn't know Jaqueline personally, I feel deeply saddened by this news and felt compelled to write on this blog about her. She was an incredibly gifted miniaturist creating exquisite miniature pieces of art. Her sculpting was flawless and the detail so intricate. Her work was simply breathtaking! Please take a look at her Deviant Art page (see link above) to see the beautiful pieces she has created. Below is a picture of one of Jaqueline's miniatures from the Deviant Art site. The unicorn is tiny yet so detailed and perfectly proportioned.

 I could go on adding her photos here all day. Choosing a favourite is so very difficult but I eventually decided on the unicorn. I only hope that one day my sculpting gets to be half as good as Jaqueline's, I am in total awe of her.

Jaqueline's Deviant Art page says that Jaqueline lost her battle to cancer. I pray that she is somewhere beyond the clouds continuing to make her beautiful miniature art.

Halloween dollhouse miniatures

Today the weather is lovely and sunny and it is very hot outside. After I have typed this post I'm going to go out into the garden and enjoy some planting and get my hands muddy. I love being in the garden so much at this time of year. I love how quickly everything grows and the striking colour from the pretty flowers, the fresh scent of newly mowed lawn, watching as my cats roll around lazily in the sunshine. I could sit and watch the butterflies and insects buzzing around for hours, it's so relaxing. So being in the midst of summer it is quite hard to turn my attention ahead towards Autumn and Halloween. However that is what I have done and I have made these little Halloween cuties (pictured above) ready and painted for the dollhouse. The size will suit a 1:12 scale dollhouse. I absolutely adore making little pumpkins with faces. When I begin sculpting the faces they seem to choose their own personalities which comes through in their facial expression. It's almost like I have no control over them and they just morph in front of my eyes. My favourite out of these little guys is the one on the far left of the picture, he just looks so grumpy lol. I'm going to be making many more of these over the next few months as well as many more Halloween themed items. I find Halloween gives me so much inspiration. Anyway that sunshine is calling me so I'm off out to find my trowel. Catch up with you all soon :)

You can find the above miniatures in my etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/fizzyclaret?ref=si_shop

Miniature basket, peacocks and bunny rabbits

I'm still sticking with the Easter theme at the moment. I'm absolutely desperate for the weather to warm up and to see the first flowers of Spring. At the moment it is snowing heavily outside and is bitterly cold so there isn't much sign of Spring at the moment. Nevermind I have the wonderful world of Pinterest.com at my finger tips and I love to browse through lovely Spring pictures there to keep up my inspiration. The items pictured above are what I have made this week and they will be placed on ebay for auction tomorrow (seller:fizzyclaret).
I'm still working on the shelves but not having much luck with it at the moment. Whenever I struggle to make something I tend to walk away from it but this time I'm determined to try working with some new materials and see if I can make something pretty. Fingers crossed it will work :)