More Jane Newman!!!!/ My Stokesayware

I saw this little dresser on ebay.co.uk. I knew it had to be Jane Newman, bid and actually won!! It came through the post today and lo and behold....signed Jane Newman LARGEST dresser! The dollhouse gods were certainly smiling down on me!!!! I am going to have to save my pennies for enough Stokesayware to fill it!!!

My lovely new clock from Keith at Small-time miniatures in the U.K and my beautiful Rosewood Carleton desk from Frank Preene in the United States. Little desk had a shipping boo-boo so is on it's way back to be mended.

My new Stokesayware intermingled with beautiful cranberry and clear glass from Glasscraft UK. The tiny little cake stands and dome are so delicate and the scale is absolutely perfect! I love their all their cranberry glass and am really resisting the temptation to go back and order more!

All that shines is not gold "IT"S STERLING SILVER"

Well, what a grand week it has been for me and the postman! He is now coming to the house so often the neighbors are talking!
I really hope the picture I took does this justice. It is the most precious sterling silver tea service from Mike Sparrow silversmith in England. I originally thought I would chose the Georgian tea set which would fit so well into my soon-to-be Georgian dollhouse and is so incredibly detailed, but I finally settled on the fluted melon design which is equally beautiful and just like my mother's tea service. It is so finely crafted and perfect. The little tiny lidded teapot has a finial made of bone! and the serving finish on all the pieces is so mirror-like that it was hard to get a clear picture without my big camera covered face being reflected.



www.mikesparrowsilver.co.uk

Jane Newman, Jane Newman!

When I saw the beautifully detailed miniature dressers and washstands on the Stokesayware website, I knew I had to have one. A quick call the the U.K and I found that they were made by an incredibly talented miniaturist called Jane Newman. Great!! only she retired in 2007, not so great! Well, there must be some about... so after weeks of scouring the internet and calling every shop in Europe that had ever seen a piece, I was informed that there were none to be had and the chances of finding a piece was slim. So I added it to my list of things that I routinely look up on the internet nightly hoping something pops up, and it did! I found this washstand and stool on some obscure auction site in the U.K and purchased it. I paid for it through my paypal account and never received any confirmation that I had won the auction, the piece had been posted or they had received my payment, a few weeks later, much to my delight, it showed up in the post and let me tell you I am so thrilled! I think also I have a bid on a large dresser that I sure is also a Jane Newman although it is not mentioned in the listing. Judging from the bid though, I am pretty sure their are other that suspect this to be true too. Fingers crossed eh!!

So much to share!!!!!

I received my beautiful Stokesayware bone china dinnerware today. I could have never imagined how tiny and precious each little piece is.... I have chosen a setting for six including six victorian border plates with pagoda side plates, two incredibly detailed delft plates (for sitting on a yet to be acquired sideboard) and three vegetable dishes, two with perfectly fitted lids. All the china is bone white and detailed in a lovely Mulberry color and is from their aptly named "Mulberry Collection". The Stokesayware name is stamped on each precious piece! Simply amazing. I also had them make for me, the pink and white bowl and jug from their "Persian collection" and five tiny tiles for my lovely Jane Newman washstand which I will show in a poorly shot picture later.
www.stokesayware.com