A DINNER INVITATION

To Sarah and Henry,
I graciously accept your very kind dinner invitation. 

 I look forward to our next visit.
Sincerely,
Annette from California

Lee setting the table....... using tweezers.

The table is 20cm long and the lovely lace cloth started life some time in the 1930's as a powderpuff handkerchief and belonged to my mother

We made the peas and baby carrots from fimo and in the covered vegetable dishes are beans and roast potatoes, the leg of ham was bought. I'm very proud of the table setting, the tiny salts and peppers are pewter as are the serviette rings.

The table is set ready for dinner do come and join us,

Features of the dining room are..........................
The wall paper which is deep red flocked on gold foil background.
 The clock on the dining room mantlepiece is  my favourite.

The Marble topped dresser

Paul made the table and chairs, the chairs specially are beautifully done and the seat fabric is hand stitched on fine linen.

COME INTO THE PARLOUR.....

Come in to the parlour Sarah and Henry are waiting to meet you.......

This room is Sarah's favoutite room, the wall paper is called Roosevelt Rose an early American wall paper design. a note on the edge of the paper we used stated This wallpaper has been restored by "Birge Wallcoverings"from President Theodore Rossevelt's family home "Sagamore Hill"in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

 Before we move round the room note the lovely lace mat on the centre table, this is bobbin lace and was made specially for the house by an embroiderer friend. The drapes and furnishings are all silk, and the antimacassar on sarah's chair is hardanger embroidery The petipoint embroidery on the cushion on Sarah's  chair came from Venice                       Note the little footstool by her chair this is a replica of the Victorian Footstool that I own and was not made from a litset as much of the furnature in the house has been

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Another view of the room.. The tiny rose buds oin the vase on the dresser are real dried ones, however with age they have lost their colour so I have been painting them with water colour paints... I felt like the gardeners in Alice in Wonderland who were busy painting the white roses red cos they had planted the wrong ones!! The plate beside the vase of roses was hand painted by Merle Loumans in 1989 is a replica for Royal Worcester China.

 Sarah  embroidery is on a stand by the door, she has been working on a sampler.....

In actual fact in 1991 the Coromandel Embroiderers'Guild competition for the year was a sampler, this tiny sampler I stitch for the dolls house was my entry.

Will you join Sarah for afternoon tea before we continue exploring the house,. I note the afternoon tea table is set ready