A kitten in the kitchen .

A kitten in the kitchen.

Greetings friends,

Recently I was planning for a scene and I wanted the scene to be a dollhouse scene and also about my kitty Magstar. When ever I am  cooking  my little kitty sits in the kitchen most of the times. I love his company . So this blog is dedicated to my sweetie. Also among all the rooms in the doll's house,  kitchen is my favorite. Especially I love vintage kitchen. I was born and brought up in India in a house which was 100 years old . It was a two storie house with 30 people living under one roof with one kitchen and a bathroom. It was a very old fashioned kitchen there was no sink but in a corner of the kitchen there was a tap   And a small area to wash the dishes. My mother has cooked in a coal stove, kerosene stove, a small electric stove which use to take for ever to cook and for so many people until late 80's when gas stoves started becoming common in India. We really don't want to go back to those olden days life style where ladies of the house really struggled and worked hard to pull through day to day's life with outa microwave or refrigerator or a washing machine etc , but it is always fascinating to know how it was back then , so I wanted to make a scene using an old fashioned kitchen as a background and my kitty in that kitchen , and well it finally turned out like this :) 

  

It took me longer than I expected to make this scene but I am quite happy with the end results. Recently I went and became a member in a public library near my house and under crafts section first thing I saw was  'A  beginner's guide to the doll's house hobby ' by ' Jean Nisbett ' . 

I was so excited since I am very much interested in miniature and doll's house hobby off late. I borrowed this book and some scenes really inspired me to take this hobby very seriously. The above scene is inspired by this book. This is based on 1930s-1940s kitchen in Britain.  My kitchen is inspired by the kitchen below. 

According to the author 

( in this well- used 1930s kitchen with the evidence of recent baking , baskets of groceries and fruit have been delivered by the Grocer's boy . Tea towels have been hung to air over the Aga, on a rack that is worked by pulleys .) 

(The above useful information and the picture is from 'Jean Nisbett's '  'A  beginner's guide to the doll's house hobby'. )

This is a single - oven Aga. The traditional Aga colors are white, dark green, red , cream or deep blue .

This above information is not my information it is by the author Jean Nisbett. She is well known as the leading British writer on Doll's houses and miniatures. 

I have included some tips and tutorial on this in y next post.