An Apple a Day…
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – old English proverb, coined in its current form in 1913.
If you follow my photostream, you may know that I collect 1:12 size miniatures, some of which have featured in past themes in the "Looking Close on Friday" and "Smile on Saturday" groups. I also publish a chapter of a novelised story every Sunday, called "Life at Cavendish Mews" www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/albums/72157715517132727 which focuses on the lives of two women: Lettice Chetwynd, interior designer and daughter of a Viscount, and Edith, her maid, set in London exactly a century ago today. Each week I upload a photo of my miniatures set up in a realistic setting accompanied by the latest chapter, often referred to lovingly by some of my devoted followers as my "Lettice stories". The intention is that one day I would like to publish them with the chapters accompanied by my photographic images. What you don’t know is that I often take photos of selected objects in isolation in the scene with the intention to use as smaller vignettes in my photo book as well. This comes from a Lettice Chetwynd Cavendish Mews story, when Lettice visits her friends Margot and Dickie Channon a pair of newlyweds at their Regency country house, "Chi an Treth" (Cornish for "Beach House") in Penzance. These apples are the centrepiece on the breakfast table the day after Lettice makes a surprise discovery in a storage cupboard in the old house.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 12th of August is "fake food". Being a miniatures collector, I am spoiled for choice, as I have a dizzying array of foods. Maria even chose one of my Cavendish Mews images for her gallery of examples for this theme, featuring a roast dinner made by English artisan Frances Knight, who used to be a chef, but now turns her talents to realistic 1:12 miniature food stuffs for collectors like me. I decided to choose these apples because they are so realistic looking. Made of polymer clay and then painted by hand, they are made by a 1:12 miniature specialist in Germany. The comport in which they stand is spun of real glass and was made by Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering in England. The toast rack, egg cruet set, cruet set and coffee pot were made by Warwick Miniatures in Ireland, who are well known for the quality and detail applied to their pieces. The eggs and the toast slices come from Kathleen Knight’s Doll House Shop in the United Kingdom. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
An Apple a Day…
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – old English proverb, coined in its current form in 1913.
If you follow my photostream, you may know that I collect 1:12 size miniatures, some of which have featured in past themes in the "Looking Close on Friday" and "Smile on Saturday" groups. I also publish a chapter of a novelised story every Sunday, called "Life at Cavendish Mews" www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/albums/72157715517132727 which focuses on the lives of two women: Lettice Chetwynd, interior designer and daughter of a Viscount, and Edith, her maid, set in London exactly a century ago today. Each week I upload a photo of my miniatures set up in a realistic setting accompanied by the latest chapter, often referred to lovingly by some of my devoted followers as my "Lettice stories". The intention is that one day I would like to publish them with the chapters accompanied by my photographic images. What you don’t know is that I often take photos of selected objects in isolation in the scene with the intention to use as smaller vignettes in my photo book as well. This comes from a Lettice Chetwynd Cavendish Mews story, when Lettice visits her friends Margot and Dickie Channon a pair of newlyweds at their Regency country house, "Chi an Treth" (Cornish for "Beach House") in Penzance. These apples are the centrepiece on the breakfast table the day after Lettice makes a surprise discovery in a storage cupboard in the old house.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 12th of August is "fake food". Being a miniatures collector, I am spoiled for choice, as I have a dizzying array of foods. Maria even chose one of my Cavendish Mews images for her gallery of examples for this theme, featuring a roast dinner made by English artisan Frances Knight, who used to be a chef, but now turns her talents to realistic 1:12 miniature food stuffs for collectors like me. I decided to choose these apples because they are so realistic looking. Made of polymer clay and then painted by hand, they are made by a 1:12 miniature specialist in Germany. The comport in which they stand is spun of real glass and was made by Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering in England. The toast rack, egg cruet set, cruet set and coffee pot were made by Warwick Miniatures in Ireland, who are well known for the quality and detail applied to their pieces. The eggs and the toast slices come from Kathleen Knight’s Doll House Shop in the United Kingdom. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.