The haberdashery shop is finished!!

Soooo happy today!  The haberdashery shop is finished.  Well, we know this kind of projects in miniature are never truly finished - you never know if you can find THAT perfect little thing that goes so well with your scene, and you simply just need to have.  You do not want it, you absolutely NEED IT!

I am proud to say everything, every last little thing, every single tiny microscopic little thing (sorry, a bit of Corpse Bride song here!) comes from Zenas Miniatures shops.  Well, except for a couple of details, really.

I loooove the button boxes!

The thimbles are pieces from Bindels Ornaments

The veil box, I designed it myself a long time ago.  It has a piece of veil inside!

I absolutely love the scene!  And I am in love with all the mourning line from Zena.  If I had had more room, I would have included her beautiful mourning fan display!

Next project, the terrarium box for Kassandra's turtle pets!

A macabre addition...

Have you seen the movie "The Others"? Are you familiar with the Victorian tradition of post-mortem photography? Well, this is the new addition to my mourning line: a box full of post-mortem pics.

I did not know of this tradition, but I was quick on researching it, and I find it fascinating. We see pics as something so natural that we do not consider the money that cost producing a single picture years ago. So much money that families did not spend it in capturing images of the living. After all, they did see their family everyday. But when Death took a loved one, not only they did pictures of the deceased, they posed them as if they were sleeping. I have seen many pictures of parents with their dead babies, and there is a lovely beauty and melancholy to them...

Most of us have Victorian homes, and these pictures were definitely part of them. Maybe a forgotten box could be found in an attic or at the bottom of grandma's trunk...

A new line for Victorian fans!

My mother asked me some time ago to make a pretty mini fan to go with the wedding gown in her mini shop. Obviously it had to be in white, but when I finished, I made one in black and put it for sale in my shop as a mourning fan.

It occurred to me that I could not only sell fans, but a whole line of Victorian mourning displays. Thus, the Victorian Mourning Line was born!

I have designed all the boxes myself with Victorian artwork. They all open, and some of them even have "something" inside!

I will be listing them in my shop in the following days, so stay tuned!