TUTORIAL - How to make Valentine's Cupcakes

Yes... finally... my first video tutorial about making mini food is available! Sorry you guys had to wait soooo long. :)

With Valentine's Day coming up I thought it would be fun to show you how to make Valentine's Day Cupcakes.

Click the image below (or click here) to go straight to my YouTube Channel to watch the video tutorial.

And find the PDF tutorial which accompanies the video (and is more in depth with full colour photos showing how-to) at my online shop.

PROMOTIONAL OFFER TIME!
The first 5 people to buy the Valentine's Cupcake Tutorial PDF will be sent a pack of Valentine's cake toppers (candy hearts, chocolate hearts, candy rosebuds, cherries, strawberry slices, sprinkles) free of charge with their order! Postage is also free.


Click to watch the FREE online video tutorial


PDF tutorial examples





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Coming soon... with love!

St Valentine's Day is not far off.... just less than a month away! And besides a whole new and special range to celebrate the romantic season, there's something else coming soon...

... the first ever Hummingbird Miniatures 'mini food tutorial' for you to watch and see how. :)

Stay tuned and don't miss it. Either start subscribing to my YouTube Channel now or keep an eye on this blog for when the video tutorial is posted.

I'm off to London now to meet my agent in the Laduree section of Harrods. Yay! Have a great day everyone.
C xxx

A Dollhouse Moment on TV!

Had to share this because I thought it was so cool!
It's a recent British TV commercial which takes you into the tiny world of a dollhouse, miniature model railway, snow-globe, and cuckoo clock and advertises the technical communication that keeps them all connected.

Click on the image above to watch the commercial or scroll through the images below. They're so much fun! Wish I'd been hired to build out some of the models.... I'm so out of the loop in the UK! To be remedied... ;)

Cheese please!

With over 700 British cheeses made in the UK, boy did I miss English cheese when I lived in the US! Felt inspired to make some fun English cheese plates as part of my 'Best of British' range and here's some photos for you to see.
Stay tuned for glass-domed cheese boards to be added to my shop before long...
Find cheese at my online shop as well!





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Oh Deary Me!

Noooooo.... there has been quite a mishap over at Hummingbird! As I was packing all my miniatures to transport them from the US to the UK (via my hand-luggage of course) I accidentally stood a box of dozens of Pink Birthday Cakes next to a heater. A very hot heater. So, tragically, several of the birthday cakes now have tiny hair-line cracks in the frosting because of the heat exposure. The cracks are mostly at the back and not super noticeable, but they are there nonetheless.

I couldn't possibly throw them away. They're far too detailed and pretty (and hours of work goes into each one) so I'll see if anyone wants to buy one at a discount. Scroll down for discount info.

You can't really see any cracks at the front - it's mostly the back. I've put some photos down at the bottom to show the damage. Take a look and let me know what you think. :)

The Classic Pink Birthday Cake with Candles







And below are photos of two different cakes showing some cracks... :(



Buy an undamaged Pink Birthday Cake at my shop here

Or a slightly damaged cake at a whopping over 35% off at my shop here

H A P P Y 2 0 1 2 ! ! !

Happy New Year to all my mini friends! Here's to a wonderful * * 2012 * * ahead of us. I hope you all enjoy it. :)
I'd also like to thank all my followers for your consistent interest in my work and for your feedback, comments and for purchasing my miniature food. It's because of your support that I have been building a budget to make a miniature film (a short film made using miniature sets and plasticine-esq characters - like 'Wallace & Gromit' / 'Nightmare Before Christmas'). If you're interesting in following my progress as I create my first mini movie then find the link below.

M i N i A t U r E MOVIE!

Follow my progress as I make my short film by clicking this link to my professional blog. Don't forget to follow!

T u T o R i A l S TO MAKE YOUR OWN MINIATURES!
Click this link and you will soon find tutorials on how to make your own miniatures. Or go directly to this link and subscribe to my YouTube channel. I'll start uploading video tutorials soon in 2012.


S h O p

I'm sure you must all know that you can buy my work by clicking this link to my online store. ;)


Looking forward to 2012 and all the exciting things to come. Stay tuned for a new free-to-enter competition here soon as well. You could win a free mini.

Mini hugs,
Caroline xXx

Merry Christmas from Hummingbird Miniatures!

I hope you all had fabulous holidays and enjoyed your time off work and eating far too much! I know I did. It's great being back home and seeing all 5 of my siblings and their partners, eating my mum's brilliant food and playing with the new kittens my parents have.

Here's some snaps of the Hummingbird Miniatures' Christmas scene this year. As you probably know I moved house from Los Angeles, California all the way to the English countryside (will be in London very soon) so I didn't have the chance to create too much of an extensive new Christmas range this year, but I'll make up for it next year with a huge new range and offer great discounts!

... See you in 2012 - woohoo!!

Baked Lobster

In a seafood kind of mood... I made a couple of baked lobsters. Part of the Best of British Collection, as lobster has been held in high esteem in Britain for centuries and a notable part of our culinary identity. It surprised me to learn that it wasn't popular in America until fairly recently! Well in agreement with some other websites, Wikipedia says "American lobster was initially deemed worthy only of being used as fertilizer or fish bait, and it was not until well into the twentieth century that it was viewed as more than a low-priced canned staple food." 

So here's my lobster in one inch scale, on a bed of mixed greens with lemon halves (all made by me of course!) ;) You can find one on my shop here. This could be used in a modern / Victorian / even Tudor setting. (Don't worry, we've had lemons in England since the 1500s)!

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Spooky Sweets at the Hummingbird Patisserie

Have you dropped by the Hummingbird Miniatures patisserie for some fancy French and classic American treats this spooky season yet?!

Get your orders in by today or tomorrow and you just might be able to receive them in time for Halloween. Not 100% guaranteed of course, but if you live in America you just might get lucky! I'm sorry non-US friends... it doesn't look likely for you..!

I'm running an offer at my other blog for 15% off this Halloween and you can also get 15% off my Halloween 2011 Range here at Hummingbird by entering the coupon code: REDRIDING.

This offer is valid today and tomorrow. 15% will be deducted from the total of your order but not shipping. It is valid only for the Halloween Range and not for anything else.