HAPPY EASTER 2012!

Easter Day today! Hope everyone is having a fab time with your families. :)
I'm at home in Oxfordshire staying at my parent's house over Easter, and my 3 sisters and 2 brothers, and sister's husband have also been staying here - so it's been a full house for my mum! She cooked roast beef with Yorkshire puddings, baked red cabbage, roast vegetables, gravy and horseradish sauce, then we had a traditional Russian Easter desert - 'Pasca' (owing to my Russian heritage). Since then we've had homemade Cornish pasties, homemade Stilton and broccoli soup, English cheeses and biscuits, then homemade raspberry and white chocolate cake and chocolate cornflake nests with tiny chocolate eggs inside. Today my mum is roasting lamb with garlic and rosemary which we're having with flageolet beans, baked red cabbage and apple, and roast potatoes.... boy do I miss English food when I live in America!!!! Like crazy.....

So, Easter is the time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified (if you're Christian like myself), and it's also Passover or a time for family, chocolate and bunnies as well!

So here's a nice new Easter Range for 2012 entirely handmade by me. It's really a one inch scale Patisserie & Cake shop decorated for the season with white tree branches hung with tiny coloured eggs and a fancy white table filled with an Easter cake, candy and soft fluffy Easter bunnies and chicks.

Scroll down to see all the pics, or for fun take a look at Easter last year (2011).










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Easter COUPON CODE!

Easter's nearly here........!!! And you can now claim 20% off any Easter items at my online shop, until Easter Day!

This coupon applies to anything in the Easter range... see pictures below. (It is not applicable to items which are not within the Easter Range). Offer expires midnight (PST) Easter Sunday (8th April).

After you click to buy but BEFORE you pay, enter the coupon code BUNNIES and 20% will be deducted from your entire order, but not from postage.






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A little gift for a friend

For a lovely friend of mine in the US, I made this tiny half inch scale replica of my Easter 2012 Daffodil Cake as a surprise for her little mice. :) I am assuming it will have reached her in the post by now so I thought I would share some pics, since it's not often that I show much half inch scale food on here.

The last image shows it sitting next to my one inch scale Easter Daffodil Cake, which is currently available as a Limited Edition this Easter in my online shop.





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Easter Eggs and Easter Candy

Oh, I am so pleased to see my fluffy Easter chicks are popular! There's still lots more left at my online store, so take a look. :)

When I was little my mum always cut branches from the garden and then I'd help her hang little painted real or wooden eggs from the branches, and it would be the center piece in the house all Easter. I loved it. So that was my inspiration when I made these little Easter Egg Decorations. Available without hangy threads so you can display in a bowl, or with a gold hangy loop so you can hang from your own Easter tree. Just read the item description for more info.

Then we have Easter candy eggs in a hand-blown glass jar (not blown by me, but by another artist). I only made one of these.

FYI the COMPETITION on this blog (here) has now closed. Results announced soon...!

Easter Cake and Easter Chocolate

Good afternoon miniature community! Hope you enjoyed the photos of my Easter scene in yesterday's post. :) It was such a nice sunny day here in Oxfordshire, England and I had brilliant light with which to take my photos. The funny thing is I really think they look more like a nursery than a patisserie. Must be because my sister's having a baby and I've got all things baby on the brain! I'll be doing a whole baby shower range in the near future...

Anyway, here's some Easter chocolate and my original Daffodil Easter Cake created especially for Easter 2012. All of the below are currently available at my online store.

Don't forget to enter the COMPETITION on this blog (enter here) for a chance to win a free original Hummingbird miniature. It closes this weekend so hurry!










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NEW Easter fluffies available!

Yes, I am finally getting around to launching my Easter 2012 Range! Starting with some cute little fluffy miniatures. Take a look at my miniature bunnies (in pink or blue) and miniature chicks. They are fluffy like plush toys, handmade by me (naturally), in one inch scale. Photographed by me today.

Some of my 'mini friends' will have heard me announce on my Facebook page recently, that I am leaving Etsy soon-ish, and setting up my own website shop. Well, these Easter minis will all be available at my Etsy store here, as it will be a bit of time before I have built my new website. So stay tuned, continue to look for Hummingbird Miniatures on Etsy, but watch out for the 'move' which will happen this year. :)

And don't forget to enter the competition (details here) before it closes this weekend. Good luck!















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