The Fabulous Farmhouse

The Fabulous Farmhouse, Where Is Everything?

       

A little background.

When The Fabulous Farmhouse store first opened in 2007, all of the miniatures I listed for sale were available to view and purchase even while out of stock. After a few months of me being crazy, I switched the listings and photos to still being viewable but not available for purchase until they were back in stock. Even with this setting in place, I still lost my ability to create anything new because I was constantly restocking with no time left for little else. Today, once miniatures are sold out the listing is not available to view. While I realize I may not catch the eye of a possible new miniatures customer, this setting allows me to continue to love doing what I do. 

     

Ever changing...

The Fabulous Farmhouse has certainly gone through changes in the past years, for example, I now work full time outside of my home and can create miniatures when I'm not at work. Today I love doing it because I have balance and time with the great people in my life. I also traded my dream of a fabulous farmhouse and live in a fabulous lakeside cottage. Seeing Lake Huron every day reminds me of The San Francisco Bay I grew up with. Should I change the name of the store? Nah.

     

Keep in touch!

 The best way to own some of my miniature creations is to keep checking back in the store, check my facebook page for new listings, or simply email me with what you're looking for so that I can get it restocked or created sooner. I do keep a running list of requests and I'll gladly add your request!   Waiting time varies, but I always strive for quality not quantity. Creating miniatures takes a bit of time, and thank you in advance for your patience with the process! 

     


What else?

I make miniatures because I love to. I'm not Walmart by any means, but I do offer exceptionally reasonable prices. I'm not making miniatures to get rich and famous, I do it because I love sharing with you, and I love the kind people and emails I receive from satisfied miniature enthusiasts and friends. 

Let's Go Look!

Be sure to check out the Featured Items (recently restocked items in the store) often as these change weekly.

The Fabulous Farmhouse Store 

 Thanks so much for your time, be sure and say hello and happy day!

Cathy Kredell 

(PS: I hope you like the photos of some of my favorite miniatures.)

Sweet Deal!!!

Check this out! I fixed the candy labels from my previos post and added new Halloween hanging candy to the store.

 Sweet!!!!

Oh and don't forget about the free shipping and gift certificate giveaway as mentioned in the two previous posts!

More minis coming, I love this!

Have a great day, Cathy

Halloween's Coming!!

Yea...good thing it's a bit of a ways away because I put the wrong label on the Halloween hanging candy I was going to list today. Dangit. I made the correction, they'll be in the store soon :) Today I am accepting my imperfections, and smiling.

I wanted to post and remind about the featured items in the store. This is where recently restocked items are posted in one place. They are ever changing as items are sold or have been showcased for two weeks. You can find these items on the top left side of The Fabulous Farmhouse webstore. Here's the direct link....

I also added some new miniatures today. Come by and check out the store! I am working on marshmallow ghosts, more hanging candy, cupcakes, and hmmm.....more:)  Have a great day! Hugs, Cathy

Miniature's in 1/12" scale at The Fabulous Farmhouse
 
 

Cotton Candy

Yummy Cotton Candy!

Now listed in the store

new red & green too!

Beautiful Sunday

My favorite new mini

Naomi is my granddaughter that I finally got to meet in June, and I'm in love.

A first fruits gift from the grapes that were planted on the farm.

Under a postcard sky, a happy tulip tree I planted a few weeks ago.

An incredible awesome day today that hasn't exactly gone as planned, but then who's in charge, right? I ended up having to move some trees today, spend time doing things I hadn't planned on, and now I'm a little behind schedule, but that's ok. I really wanted to post on the blog here and say hello! I did it, I posted, hello:) Weekends for me are mostly about getting everything finished I didn't have time for during the week. So far it works. 

Now a few words about the miniatures.....

Little by little the store is being restocked, I have snuck some new items in there too. I'm now offering miniature clear cellophane sweets bags for candy or cookies or other miniatures you might need to bag. Ribbons are sold separately in lots of assorted colors for whatever holiday or theme you may have or desire.

Want free shipping? Enter the code "July" for free shipping Valid Sunday July 25th through Tuesday July 27th. and the details...........One coupon per customer, may not be combined with other coupons for the same purchase, not for use on overseas packages requiring priority mail post.Coupon valid for minimum $10.00 order.

I am grateful for you stopping by and reading my post, do say hello!

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Snowmen, Angels, and Santa Clauses

Snowmen

I made a snowman cupcake today so I feel like I accomplished something because it's new:) I love making new things and this one is especially fun to me because it is my first cupcake in a foil wrapper. The way this photo was taken you can't see it but you can in the next.

See the foil peeking out? Any more sideways and my gingerbread would look like a brick so that's as low as we get! I just absolutely love Christmas sweets! I do plan on continuing adding to the new Christmas items all year round as I hadn't anticipated how busy I'd be this year. This little mini tree is sitting in a pink striped tray I sell in the store. The reason I wanted to share this with you is because though I haven't changed all of the photos, all of the trays and displays with a hole to hold items like lollipops and cookies on a stick have been expanded by about 1/16 of an inch. That measurement isn't much but I also recently changed sticks I place my candy on and the new one's were too crowded to be happy. Their very comfy now. If you've purchased these from me in the past year and would like the size increased on yours please email me so I can keep record. Let's see Angels now.

Angels

 

The one wrapped up on the left is the angel, not the one on the right (wink wink) The one on the right is my son Brent, the proud daddy and US Marine (I'm so proud of him and grateful he's serving our country have to throw that in there when I can)

This angels name is Naomi Kay Madere and she was born 12/3 at 11:39am. Naomi weighed 9lbs & .28 oz, she's 22 inches long and healthy and happy. Look at her cheeks! Little sweetie muffin. I always name kidlets nicknames and I'll pick one for her when I know it:) Her daddy loves his first baby girl, and I love my first grand baby. We are going to spoil her!!! I've not seen her yet, they're in North Carolina and I hope to get there as soon as I can. Family issues here prevent me from going too far from home at this time, but I'll sneak away as soon as I possibly can and hold this girl:) Looking at this angel makes me want to collect babies like Angelina Jolie. How could you not? So sweet! Ok Santa Claus time...

Santa Clauses

We so hit the thrift store today! I loved everything I bought while browsing and discussing that show about hoarders. What? Most of it is LITTLE, and CHRISTMAS! And 25cents each! I love Christmas:) I found a mini dollhouse, and some funky retro santas and some old Hallmark ornaments oh and a Rudolph (but someone nabbed his nose so I'll have to fix that...) You know, just stuff... I think if you read this far I will just go ahead and add one more photo of the first snow we had this year oh and it sure would be nice if it were the last:)

The Fairy house out on the farm

Remember when I posted this last Spring? Nice and warm and sunny and beautiful? Now I think our fairy is on vacation in Florida because her front yard is a wreck and I didn't see any glitter anywhere. So I'm guessing I'm not the only one who doesn't care for snow. I've said enough I think, so thank you for following my blog, thank you for reading, and I do hope I see you again, and you'll stop and post a hello!

Thanks! Cathy McGhee

Miniature Christmas Peeps

Gold Sugar Flecks Sprinkled Miniature Marshmallow JOY Peeps

Say that three times fast!

I have miniature Easter Peeps, Halloween Peeps and now available Christmas Peeps! Starting with gold sprinkled JOY shaped marshmallows, soon there will be red stars, chocolate mousse, and green trees (if I don’t eat them first).

In the store I have more out of stock items than I have hours in the day so if you need something sooner than later just let me know. There are also shelves and benches available and on the way in the store as well. I am just crazy busy and won’t be blogging regularly until after the upcoming Holidays but I will be here getting these minis ready to go, and finding balance in the month of December. On second thought, never mind the balance part, I’ll be here having fun and doing what I love doing. Making minis!

You may have noticed my facebook badge located here on the blog? If you haven’t become a fan yet please do because I don’t want you missing out on more new miniatures, more sales, reviews, and discussions. I did begin some miniature photo albums there for you to browse, listing more as time allows. If you have a Facebook profile please add The Fabulous Farmhouse as a friend. You can begin doing so by clicking the link above if you like.

Why have a page? Because a Facebook page offers business networking tools not available on a regular profile. The Fabulous Farmhouse Facebook page posts feed to the widget here on the blog, and the blog posts here feed to the other Facebook account. I hope I’m not confusing you, it sounds complicated to me but it really isn’t, it’s rather simple. Whichever way is easiest for you to keep up to date with new miniatures, stories, me complaining about snow (Thankfully not yet though!) and a little bit of this and that. Facebook also has the networked blogs application, and this one seems to me the easiest to keep track of what you’d like to keep up with. The Facebook networked blogs is how I found this most incredible blog about pumpkin dwellings on Cauldron Craft Miniatures blog.

The photos are really something! I know we’re supposed to be focused on Christmas but I’m all for having Halloween in December, I need a Tim Burton Room box or something equally exciting to combine the two holidays! Alright I’m going to get back to work now. Enjoy today. Thanks so much for reading, and posting too! Cathy McGhee

PS: If you have added me as a friend to your facebook you'll know right away that today is the last day for Gaye's

$10 dollar Fabulous Farmhouse gift certificate giveaway at her My Small Obsession blog.

and one more thing

 

Mozi says "Meowwy Christmas!" with his forever runny nose. Bless him.

Ok Back to work now:)

Miniature Halloween Peeps

Wednesday 9/30 is the last day to place an order for entry in our Halloween giveaway. I can't wait! Also, we will be having another in October so be sure to check back to see what it will be. It isn't Halloween I will say that much and more in the store Newsletter coming in the next few days. Unfortunately time hasn't allowed me to get as much Halloween done as I'd hoped to. The good news is the store is seasonal all year round so Halloween, Christmas, Easter, whatever you like is pretty much available all year round. Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. Thanks! Cathy

A New Miniature Dollhouse Candy Display

 

A New Miniature Candy Display

I've had those miniature barrels on my mind lately. You know the kind that country stores and gift shops put candy in? So cute and versatile, yet I kept thinking how I'd love to do a re-design on them. So I was thinking FAO or Disney whimsical and came up with this design. I'm really happy with how this Halloween style came out because all of the colors go so well together. Now I'm doing another new one of these in a pastel candy colors print. Can't wait! I'll have these new lollipop displays in the store within the next day or two. I also had some other misc. info to post but something ate it as I went to post and I'm too tired to type it again:) Thanks for stopping in, and have a safe holiday!

 Cathy

I Love Halloween!

 

I couldn't sleep I was so excited to get some new Halloween miniatures in the store. Miniature donuts, cupcakes, cookies, cakes, and candy too all in Halloween colors. Keep checking back for more because I'm not finished yet:) Enjoy your day! Thanks for checkin us out! Cathy