Pumpkin Squash Prep Board

More magical happenings in the witch's kitchen.... aside from the onslaught of deadly pastries I blogged about (with more varieties coming soon by the way!), we have here a Pumpkin Squash Prep Board.

This little wonder is a carved wooden prep board displaying 2 detailed fairytale pumpkins, a hand-blown glass jar of pumpkin squash, a pumpkin squash recipe scroll, stripy straws, a cotton kitchen cloth and a signature yellow dotty spoon. Everything is glued into place.

I only made 2 and probably wont repeat this exact design, so find them at my online shop before they're gone!

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NEW Poison Pie Prep Board

More poisonous baking is on the cards... this is another new design of a classic best-selling Pixie Dust Miniature! We have here a whimsical 'slate' prep board with a poison apple pie resting on a cotton kitchen cloth, shiny and realistic red apples, a hand-blown glass jar of poisonous tonic, the poison pie recipe on a scroll, a toadstool label and finally a signature dotty red knife.

And it's available at my online shop now!

Inspired by Grimm's fairytale of 'Snow White' and all handmade by myself in once inch scale. ;)

My Workspace - Pumpkin Tonic Prep Boards

Don't get bored of hearing me blog about prep boards just yet.... there's actually quite a few more to come!

These are pictures I took throughout today of my workspace and you can see me assembling tiny little carved wooden prep boards with yellow silk, pumpkins and pumpkin tonic made by witches. ;)

The artwork on the scrolls and labels is my own as usual, and the glass jelly jars are hand-blown (I commissioned another artist to make the glass for me) and quite tiny.

I'll start having some of these new items available at my online Pixie Dust Miniatures store fairly soon... just let me finish them off and photograph them properly (these photos are dreadful!)

If you're interested in whimsical little one inch scale prep boards then have a gander at my other blog too.... (here) these ones are not magical but they're cute and unique. :)

And don't forget - you have only 6 days left to enter the Pixie Dust Miniatures 'Tell a Friend COMPETITION'! Take a few minutes to enter and you could win quite a unique and special miniature.... Enter here.

No, I think not!

Imagine my horror when browsing Etsy I came across a very familiar photo - no wait - my photo being used to advertise someone else's product!

My tea break from 'making things' took a little downturn when I found that a fellow Etsy seller had pulled one of my copyrighted images from the internet, cropped out my company logo (yet somehow stupidly left the copyright notice at the bottom right hand side with my name on it) and uploaded it to her own shop to sell her 'poison pie wax candles', Fortunately she's not using it to sell miniature pies, but nonetheless that picture is coming down. I've sent her an email to let her know that - nope, can't do that.
Sheesh! Some people are so funny.

So... for your own amusement, see screengrab of someone'else's shop with my photograph above, and then detail showing my ignored copyright notice below.
Also see my original poison pie prep board designs (which is the product in question) and note that I have a newer design coming soon - blogged about yesterday here.

On a happier note, the weather in Wellington, New Zealand is wetter than a mermaid's brassiere. Take a look at the snaps I just had to take... there's a compare and contrast of my balcony the day I moved in vs now. And it's meant to be spring - the equivalent of March here.... what's going on?! Last image of Wellington was not taken by me, but pulled down from a news site. You see that's okay because I'm not using this person's photograph to sell product. ;)

Sunny day on my balcony in July (winter).....................Simply dreadful weather on my balcony today..!

And don't forget - you have only 8 days left to enter the Pixie Dust Miniatures 'Tell a Friend COMPETITION'! Take a few minutes to enter and you could win quite a unique and special miniature.... Enter here.

My Workspace - Bake Off!

I've spent the entire day baking... with a little drop of poison.

And yeah, I've had Tom Waits in my head all day. ;)
Since I'm sharing a lot of my works in progress lately (by popular request), here's my workspace throughout today as I made NEWLY DESIGNED poison pies (these ones are 10% smaller than my last ones and the design is a tad refined), and I've been making new prep boards which are different to the last ones.

These will be part of a new range of spooky witchy baking in miniature. Stay tuned for more and watch out as I'll blog about these pies again very soon and let you know when they're available at my online Pixie Dust Miniatures store.

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Poison Pie Prep Board and an Important Message!

Cutting to the chase... the Choose Your Magic Competition should have ended the day before yesterday (the 20th) but I am actually extending it another week!
This is because my mum and brother flew over and stayed with me all of last week (returning to England last night) and I was so thrilled to have them as no other family members have ever visited me out here in California, so I completely neglected my blogs and the competition... sorry.

As an apology to all for this inconvenience, I'll draw a runner-up as well and they'll get a Poison Bottle. :)

So don't let the chance to enter slip you by! Enter my COMPETITION here. This closes at midday on Sat 27th August.

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And now onto... Poison Pie Prep Boards.. carefully assembled from things left out in the witch's kitchen. ;) On a brilliantly warped and stained board sits a classic poison pie (also available individually here) on a stand and surrounded by a Poison Pie cookbook (front cover designed by me), a silk tea towel, raw dough with rolling pin, poison bottle and red apples. Everything is glued down.

Available soon at my online shop. Email me to reserve one.









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Snail Cupcake Prep Boards

I want to share with you these fabulous Snail Cupcake Prep Boards. The wonderfully warped wooden boards include a black cake stand with 3 chocolate cupcakes topped off with green frosting and fresh garden snails. There's another cupcake waiting to be decorated with a snail, a cookbook (my design front cover) called 'Baking with Snails' and has one little loose snail making his way across it. A magical and truly unique one inch scale miniature.

Part of my Witch's Kitchen Range.







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