A Tudor Feast...

Being an avid historian, I was bound to launch a Tudor line of miniature foods! Just been taking my time as I've had so many other things on the go.

The Tudor period was between 1485-1603 and was a fairly exciting time (although it ended the House of Plantagenet which was much more interesting, I think). Tudor food didn't exactly make any gigantic culinary advances, although we started importing things like oranges and lettuce (which we didn't have before) and of course we had the arrival of the potato from South America.
Anyway... stopping before I bore people to death... the point is miniaturists seem particularly fond of Tudor food and so that's why I'm making food from this era. But you could just as easily use much of this range for miniature scenes of earlier (or later) periods in history.

My Tudor Range forms part of my new Best of British Collection... much more to come! Available at my online shop in 2 days.

Crayfish Stargazy Pie ~ a Cornish dish from the 16th century - still served in the UK today. (Note to Americans - we say crayfish, not crawfish in the UK! :) )



English Cheese Plate ~ featuring Royal Gala apples, bread, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton and a cheese knife.



Golden Pears ~ pears have been popular in Britain since they were brought to us with the Roman invasion. They were a favourite of Henry III. This miniature is one of my best - a soapstone dish of realistic pears with a one gilded pear among them. (A popular dinner party touch in mediaeval households).



Ploughman's Lunch ~ very traditionally English! A 'ploughman's' includes cheese, chutney, bread and fruit. This fancy one features little pork pies, Royal Gala apples, a pear, bread, English chutney, crackers, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton, red grapes, green grapes and a bottles of red wine.



Round English Cheese Plate ~ featuring Royal Gala apples, bread, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton, red grapes, green grapes and a cheese knife.

hummingbird miniatures one inch scale or 1:12 scale dollhouse or dolls house miniature Tudor food made from polymer clay

Making it in Half Inch Scale!

One of my very best clients provided me with a fun challenge this weekend - to recreate some of my new Halloween 2011 Range in Half Inch scale! (1:24 scale)

Here's the outcome. Some of it was so very tiny I had to use a magnifying glass!

Laduree Halloween Profiteroles - 1:24 Scale










Trick or Treat Donuts - 1:24 Scale

Candy Ghosts - 1:24 Scale

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A highly detailed... Rich Chocolate Halloween Cake

My final Halloween cake for Halloween 2011!

And finally, this one's my Rich Chocolate Halloween Cake... so far the most detailed cake I've ever made (apart from the Laduree wedding cakes of course!)

It's one inch scale and has little white chocolate iced cobweb, chocolate pumpkins and tombstones.

Available as a LIMITED EDITION this Halloween at my online shop.

The Revival of an old Spooky Favourite

Yes, I never seemed to stop selling my Minty Chocolate Halloween Cake from Halloween 2010, and even got commissions for it through the summertime! So I have continued making it and have included it in my Halloween 2011 range this spooky season. You can find it at my online shop.

How do you think it compares to my new Halloween cake designs? I like the others better actually but still the Minty Chocolate one sells almost as well as my Pink Birthday cake!











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Discounts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In case you didn't know it, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so certain pink items in my Hummingbird Miniatures store have either 10% off (so you have the option of saving a little money and perhaps donating it to Breast Cancer Research here) or you can choose not to use the coupon code and pay full price which means I will personally donate 10% of the sale to Breast Cancer Research myself. :)

Items which you can use the discount code for / or pay full price and have 10% donated to Breast Cancer Research are:

Pink Birthday Cake (you can find it at my shop here)



Romantic Eclairs (you can find them at my shop here)



Valentines Day Cake (you can find it at my shop here)



Pink Religieuse (you can find one at my shop here)



Pretty in Pink Donut Earrings (you can find them at my shop here)



To pay full price just buy the item as normal at my online shop here. 10% of the sale will be donated to Breast Cancer Research by myself at the end of October when the offer ends.

To use the coupon for 10% off any of the pink items above, simply click to buy and enter the coupon code 'PINK1' before you pay. 10% will be discounted from the total price but not postage.
With your savings you may decide to donate to Breast Cancer Research (if you so choose - this is not obligatory) and you can do this here

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Terms and Conditions. Offer ends at the end of October 2011. This offer is not applied to items not listed above, even if they are pink. This offer is only for the items listed above and so if you wish to buy other items then you must do this in a separate transaction and not use the coupon code. I will refund any postage paid twice. :)

Made it onto Delish.com - yay!

I know - two posts in one day... but I was really pleased with the article I'm in about miniature food on Delish.com! They featured some of my miniature food and some very talented miniaturists' work as well! I love Kim's pancakes and Eve's bread on there.

See the article here or click on the images below to see them enlarged.

Let me know what you think. :)

Halloween Donuts and Eclairs

Okay, so we have more for miniature trick-or-treaters here! One inch scale (of course) dollhouse miniature donuts and eclairs for Halloween 2011. Available at my online shop here.




And for those of you that want to stock your miniature fancy French patisseries this Halloween, then I have these Ladurée styled Spooky Halloween eclairs decorated in Halloween colours and finished with an iced spiderweb and chocolate spider. :)



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