News from ELF Miniatures

We hope you are enjoying the holiday

season. Our reader’s house feature is the

shop in the photo, beautifully decorated

and lit here for Christmas – see the end of

the Newsletter for more. We were very

busy in the lead-up making sure Christmas

presents arrived on time! We are pleased

to announce that we will be attending the

Thame Dolls House and Miniatures Fair in

Oxfordshire for the first time in 2014. It’s on

Saturday 22nd February and we hope to see

some of you there.

We have some great bargains on offer at

the moment – many of them one-off ELF

items or end-of-line items, such as the high

quality china tableware from By Barb in the

USA. Please see below for more details.

New items from Elizabeth

To match the mug tree we featured last month, we’ve added an aluminium

kitchen roll holder , complete with kitchen roll – for £2.95.

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We’ve also added some fridges to our range:

A large aluminium fridge with opening glass-fronted door, and fixed freezer

drawer. The interior is fitted with shelves, and two full-width pull-out crisper

drawers. Ready-made this costs £85.

And an addition to our fridge kits is this

under-counter steel fridge or freezer kit for

£6.50 for one or £12.00 for two, so that you

can make a matching fridge and freezer.

ELF’s January Sale!!

We need to make room for new items, so ELF is pleased to offer a range of ELF items at generously

discounted prices, available now!

Bag yourself a complete kitchen for just £35.00 (this is an

ex-display item and excludes the appliances and

accessories).

Choose from a range of bedroom furniture:

You can buy the complete set for £89 or individual pieces for less.

Some items are also available in white and light wood.

A one-off

yellow

wardrobe with

Venetian glass

handles for

just £35.00. Or

a one-off

combination

wardrobe in

red for just £20.00.

Let’s not forget the bathroom – this beautiful double

aqua vanity is now half price at just £75.00!

And to enhance your office or living areas, this

beautiful storage unit with opening cupboard

and individual knobs – reduced by half to just

£25.00.

Find many more reduced items made by Elizabeth here.

We also have several non-ELF items reduced:

Several items of china tableware, hand-made in the USA, are reduced to half price or better. There is

only one left of many of these items, so don’t hesitate if you want one!

For our complete non-ELF sales listing see here.

Dinner ware with

linen for £16, reduced

from £35.

Pasta set reduced

from £14.90 to £7.25.

Green/brown dinner

ware with linen for £16,

reduced from £35.

Dinner ware and

dishtowels set for £14,

reduced from £29.

Featuring this month – a commercial kitchen!

ELF makes a unique range of appliances for a commercial kitchen:

double or single chiller, stove, sink unit and deep fat fryer. Add a

preparation table (made by Delph, available from ELF) and a chef!

We can also supply the meat cleaver and food that you can see on

the table.

We can supply additional items such as a cooker hood

and shelving (see photo right); these are not available to

order on the website as they are made to individual

requirements.

Some of these items would also suit a cafe setting – the

single chiller is a great way to display chilled food and

drink items. And no cafe can be without a commercial

espresso machine these days!

New items from the ELF Store

To help us think of warmer times, we have a surfboard and wicker-effect garden furniture set including a lounger.

The table and chairs set would also look great in a conservatory or cafe.

The stools are also available as a set of two, suitable for a kitchen breakfast bar or cafe setting. We’ve placed them with a cream and walnut ELF kitchen island.

As a contrast to the surfboard, we also have a snowboard!

Why not put these in a garage or loft or basement? Or a sports equipment shop – as well as golf bags, we have various pieces of gym equipment, including weights and an exercise bike.

This vanity unit has been available in a light wood finish for several years; we are pleased to offer a new version in white with a black top. It is excellent value at only £6.40.

And continuing with the white theme, we have a set of dining or kitchen chairs in white for £11.35. There are several tables that would go with them – an ELF acrylic table, the wooden rectangular one in the photo or a white acrylic minimalist dining table.

We have two new sets of books. One is a set of 3 novels for just 90p, from this selection.

The other is a set of books, a ring file and a pair of glasses, for just £2.50

.

Please ask if there is anything you would like that we don’t already stock. We can’t

guarantee to find it for you, but we’ll try!

Readers Houses This month we’re delighted to feature a project by Liz Davis.

Liz says: “I’ve always been fascinated with miniatures and dolls

houses since I was a little girl. Work and family life put paid to my

interest for many years, until one Christmas my in laws bought me

a dolls house. The best present and the best Christmas I’d had

since I was a child. That first house was donated to my daughter

and two more followed, one I sold on Ebay and the other went to a

friend as I lacked the time to continue with them.

Discovering an online community and the existence of many

wonderful suppliers of all things mini sparked my interest again.

I started with the purchase of a Sid Cooke kit last year and my

garden supplies shop with flat above began to take shape. The

outside was covered with brick slips and flint, in the style of the

buildings of East Anglia.

Inside I knew exactly what I wanted. Above the shop a modern flat for the owner to relax in at the end of

the day. Leaving the ceiling out to give me more height, I was able to incorporate a mezzanine sleeping area

above, supported by a driftwood tree, to fit in with the vaguely ‘seaside’ theme and the blue cloud wallpaper

on the walls.

Coming across Elf

Miniatures on the internet

was like stumbling into

mini modern heaven. The

room was to be planned

around the kitchen and

the one piece I wanted

most of all was a pull out

larder unit. After some

emails back and forth,

Elizabeth came up with

the definitive plan and my

wonderful kitchen came to

fruition.”

We like the droopy cat

on the sofa!

Close-up of the pull-out larder, open and closed. This is the

only opening cupboard in the kitchen, which Elizabeth built,

but could be supplied in kits for you to make yourself.

Close up of the area around the hob.

We love the detail in the shop, makes you want to go

in! From the piles of plant pots to the jumble of tools

to the watering cans!

If you would like to have your house or project featured in a future edition of the ELF Newsletter,

please email us on elfminiatures@hotmail.co.uk