Happy New Year Miss Sophie

Same procedure as last year miss Sophie?

Same procedure as every year, James!

Happy New Year miss Sophie and a Happy New Year to all of you!
Thank you all for brightening my days with your inspiring posts and kind comments.

I'm late - again, I hope you all can pretend this was posted yesterday :-)
This Christmas I have divided my time between family and work since I have a big deadline in just a week. So not much time spent on miniatures. But I think this in a way sums up 2010 for me too, it's been a busy year, both home and at work, which I of course in these recession times am very thankful for; not many have been as lucky as us, but it often doesn't leave much time and energy for playing with miniatures or blogging.

But blogging brought lots of joy and pleasure this year as well.

- The contact with new and old blogger friends, I so appreciate our friendship and you are all a great inspiration for me!
- Many of these friends have given me lovely gifts, which I really look forward to show you!
- Meeting callsmall in New York, which was one of this years highlights for me. Too bad I hate longdistance travels or I would have bought tickets to meet many more of you! (I'm looking at you Sans!)
- The growing interest for modern miniature design. This year has given us both more mini modernist bloggers and more mini modernist designers, and some of us (ha!) have even made it into various newspapers. The article with Karl Edo and me has now been translated to English (mainly by my better half) and will be posted soon.

If 2011 will turn out only half as great as 2010 was, I have a lot to look forward to! I, for one, will do my very best! Cheerio!

UPDATE: For those of you who are not familiar with Miss Sophie and James, this post is referring to this sketch with Freddie Frinton, which is a TV classic and a tradition for Christmas or New Year's Eve in most European countries.

Carnival

Since this is the last weekend before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Glenn Closeenough and her husband Sean Kommer'u have invited to Carnival in Venetian style with capes and masks. And everyone is here, Nora and Helmer with their children Tomy and Annika, Henrik's twin brother Henrik and his wife Carol Line, Carol's cousin Polly Line, Cocco Flanell, Arne Vaa and Karl Edo Spook, Glenn Closenough's sister Fiolett paa Traadén, and the other aunt of Helmer and Henrik; Dolly Barton. Can you tell who's who?

Nora has also invited the new French teacher at her school, the handsome Jean-Marie du Bédauré, recently moved in from Paris. He's the man with the red mask.

Helmer thinks Nora looks like a new woman tonight and feels a little bit jealous when he sees how she and the other women gather around the Frenchman.



Even though her nephew Bart Ender Barton isn't around tonight, Dolly Barton prefers the bar.
Polly Line thinks it's nice to meet new people but her mind wanders away while she's talking to Jean-Marie and Fiolett paa Traadén. After the nice evening in the pub on New Years Eve, she had told the tall handsome stranger about the party. She still didn't know his name, so she couldn't get Glenn Closenough to send him an invitation, but she hopes he will turn up anyway. But now most of the evening has passed and the only handsome stranger is Jean-Marie.

Suddenly - there he is! Polly Line's heart makes a jump of joy! But, he doesn't stop or even look at her! He just walks straight across the room towards the hostess, Glenn Closenough.

Polly Line is left quite confused and heartbroken.

But after what seems like hours, his conversation with Closenough is over and he turns around again, but then stops and chats for a while with Nora. Polly Line's mind is so occupied looking at them, she doesn't even notice that Jean-Marie seems quite taken with her.

A happy ending?



Credits: Annika's costume and the masks are from Polly pocket and painted with nailpolish by me and my children. Bendik has made Tomy's costume, the rest of the capes I have made.

Before the party

ENG: I just wanted to show you some photos from the reception room. In a few minutes the guests arrive and I won't get another chance :-)

NOR: Jeg ville bare vise dere selskapslokalet før gjestene kommer og ødelegger idyllen :-)

Credits: Furniture vintage Lundby. The round tables are from re-ment with table cloths on them. Food from re-ment. Fruit made by Cocco. The flowers are a small part of the 200 flowers I got as a gift from Sans! Accessories are Lundby, Re-ment , Chrysnbon and other finds.

LEGO 1

ENG: At last the building supplies from the Danish manufacturers arrived, so the building company Helene & Son Ltd. could complete the remaining facade. The exterior of the reception rooms was rebuilt. Arne Vaa, who supervised the project, had made drawings based on the original drawings. For the pub, he proposed a more modern look, but still in keeping with it's older neighbour's style.

NOR: Endelig kom de manglende byggematerialene fra de danske produsentene, slik at byggefirmaet Helene & Sønn AS kunne få bygget ferdig den gjenstående fasaden. Eksteriøret til selskapslokalene ble gjenoppbygget etter Arne Vaas tegninger som var basert på de originale tegningene. For puben foreslo han en noe mer moderne stil, som samtidig spilte sammen med den eldre naboens uttrykk.

ENG: Picture to the right: The street in the evening.
NOR: Høyre bilde: Gata i skumringen.

ENG: A peek through the windows.

NOR: Noen glimt inn gjennom vinduene.