I made this scene last week for the birth announcement card of my friends' baby boy. It's full of personal touches - for example the football strip of our local team and references to music etc.

Some of you might know that I'm expecting my first child as well - basically any minute now! So I will close my Etsy shop tomorrow morning and will take a break from miniatures for at least a couple of months. But of course I will keep up to date on all your lovely blogs!

BACK IN DECEMBER

This seems like ages ago, but I still wanted to share this exciting project with you!

In December I was contacted by dutch ad agency UbachsWisbrun / JWT to build miniature scenes inside a christmas gift. I only had a few days to build the whole box and to put the rooms together. Then the people were photographed and I added them as flat paper cutouts to the scenes. And here you have the final result!

Here are the rooms before retouching so you get to see more of the details that went into each room.

NEW ITEMS IN MY SHOP

I have finally had the time and more importantly inspiration, to make new items for my shop. There are new STRING shelves in lots of different colours

and all kinds of rugs I like to use in my scenes. I thought you might like them as well.

Also newly added is the Mid Century sideboard I made last month.

And there is more stuff to follow in the next couple of days... more furniture and pillows!

I'm still super busy with non-miniature work but I just had to share some photos of this amazing house with you! Last month I was contacted by a very talented set designer from Berlin who was after a few of my furniture pieces. Her job was to build a modern dolls' house to be used as a pretty important prop in a film (I can't go into details yet). After a couple of Skype conversations I agreed to lend a large part of my 1:16 collection to her and here you have the result! Isn't this house incredible? My favourite part is definitely the wooden ceiling - very mid-century modern.

I will let you know as soon as the film is out.

THE LABOUR OF THE LAST TWO MONTHS

This is what I've been working on for the past two months - a pretty large order of furniture and two iMacs for a shop in Barcelona. This also gave me the chance to use my brand spanking new rubber stamp! You can see more detailed shots of the pieces on my Flickr.

SMALL MAGAZINE

Today a little interview was published about my miniatures in Small Magazine. Please head over - it's a wonderful publication with beautiful illustrations and photography.

WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO

Here's a quick update and a picture of what I've been working on. Each one of these cushions take a couple of months to finish! I'm also very busy on a large furniture order and will add new items to my Etsy - including the bench pictured above - hopefully soon.