Wednesday 28 September 2011

Petite Properties' Online Shop - UPDATED!!

Hello everyone!!!
This is just a super quick post to let you all know that the Petite Properties' online shop has now been UPDATED and freshly stocked up with all the NEW KITS which were released at the Autumn Miniatura last weekend… Enjoy!

1:48th Basic House Kits...
2 &4 Birchwood Avenue
The Cottage Stores

1:48th Furniture Kits…
Vintage Cooker - £1.50
Vintage Kitchen Cabinet - £1.50
Farmhouse Table - £1.50
Farmhouse Chair (Pair) - £1.50
Cottage Chair (Pair) - £1.50
Dining Table - £1.50
Dining Chair (Pair) - £1.50
Vintage Double Bed £2.00
Vintage Single Bed - £1.75
Cottage Double Bed £2.00
Cottage Single Bed - £1.75
Farmhouse Dresser - £2.00
Potting Bench - £1.50

1:24th Furniture Kits...
A Rocking Crib - £2.99
Shop Counter Display - £1.99
Glazed Shop Counter - £4.99
Open Dresser - £5.99
Short Bookcase - £3.49
Tall Bookcase - £3.99
Vintage Cooker - £4.99
Vintage Kitchen Cabinet - £4.99
Double Dresser - £4.99

1:24th Country Garden Kits...
Potting Bench - £4.99
‘Lean To’ Greenhouse - £13.99
Bea & Tony Broadwood

Thursday 22 September 2011

Miniatura Preview - 1:24th Dolls Houses

Good evening  everyone…
With Autumn Miniatura only a couple of days away, I am delighted to be able to bring you a sneak preview of just some of the  great value 1:24th dolls houses which will be available to purchase from the Petite Properties’ stand at the NEC show this coming weekend!
All of our unique, hand crafted 1:24th houses are sold pre constructed - with the house on the stand, being the one you take home! 
However, we only have one of each property and so they are sold on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis!
So why not visit us early to avoid disappointment!
Bea & Tony Broadwood
Post Office Cottage - £79.99

Hedgerow House - £99.99

No 1 Lime Tree Avenue

Blackberry Cottage - £99.99

Wren Cottage - £74.99

Dandelion Cottage - £99.99

No 3 Lime Tree Avenue - £99.99

Harvest House - £99.99

Sunday 11 September 2011

Miniatura Preview - Something a bit different!

Good evening  everyone… 
I am just looking in to give you yet another sneak preview of a new 1:48th 'Basic House Kit' which Mr Bea and I will be launching at Autumn Miniatura...

But first a warning… for those of you who are unfamiliar with everyday 20th century UK architecture this latest design might make you scratch your head, for those of you who know the UK and its traditional ’Suburbs’ well - it may simply make you smile...
2 & 4 Birchwood Avenue (pictured above) is a (very) typical 1940s - 1950s semi detached suburban style property which can be found all over the UK in the 'new estates' which sprung up everywhere during this time period - indeed although I now live in an old stone cottage, I myself was born in such a property and the new design draws strongly from the suburbs of Hertfordshire where I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s…

Now I know that this latest design won't be 'everyone's cup of tea' but for me (and many others) it holds so much nostalgia that I simply couldn't resist offering it as a highly unique quarter scale kit!!

2 & 4 Birchwood Avenue is our largest kit to date and has 10 rooms in total (4 in each house plus 2 attic rooms) and the kit will be priced at just £24.99!
Bea & Tony Broadwood

Friday 9 September 2011

Miniatura Preview - The Cottage Stores...!

Good evening everyone…!
Tonight I am delighted to be able to finally preview a first look at our forthcoming ’The Cottage Stores’ quarter scale kit. 
The Cottage Stores will be the next new addition to our ’1:48th Basic House Kit’ range and as such it will be launched exclusively at Autumn Miniatura later this month!
Further details of this new kit  and all the  other new products which we will be launching at Miniatura will  be released here very soon!!
Bea Broadwood

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Online Shop... Has been updated!!

 Good afternoon everyone!
Literally as I type our latest ‘News Announcement’ is being emailed out to all of our subscribers! 
This latest  ’mini newsletter’ brings with it a list of all the brand NEW 1:144th, 1:48th and 1:24th kits which have today been added to our online shop!
Bea & Mr Bea


Thursday 1 September 2011

FREE AIM Online Magazine - September's Issue - Out NOW!!

As a busy summer slips quietly into an exciting autumn, it is once again my pleasure to introduce this latest ‘food filled’ edition of the AIM magazine.
Over the summer I have personally enjoyed a very special family celebration, one which has reinforced to me that there is indeed no greater pleasure in life that to able to sit down and share a leisurely meal with family and good friends and it seems that the highly talented members of AIM agree!

This month AIM members have collectively chosen to focus on our theme:  ‘Come dine with us..!’ and together they have filled the pages of this very special September issue with a stunning celebration of entertaining ‘in miniature’.

The pages of this new issue are crammed full of inspiration and ideas for the international miniature diner!  So whether you are planning to create a realistic dining setting in your dolls house or you simply want to bring a kitchen scene to life with stunning, mouth watering food; look no further we have it all!

This new September edition of the ground breaking AIM magazine is also awash with many fabulous free projects for you to try your hand at, from printable plates (in three scales)on pages 16 and 47 to creating a stunningly realistic salad without the use of clay on page 52  In short there is something for every miniaturist to try!
So as you enjoy the last of the summer sunshine, why not put your feet up and come dine with us!
www.artisansinminiature.com
Bea (Fiona) Broadwood
Editor Of The AIM Magazine