Exhibit: "Tea Thyme" featuring NAME Hutch

"Tea Thyme" was exhibited at the 2013 Good Sam Show by Kathleen Stats, Vallejo, CA. It features her NAME Hutch. "The tea pots and tea cups have long been in my miniature collection," Kathleen Stats tells us. "So I knew that my NAME Hutch would be part of a Tea Room.  Since 2010, when I made the hutch and the room box, I have been adding to the scene." In 1:12 scale, the room box is 14-inches wide, 5-inches deep, and 11-inches tall. 

Photos courtesy of Connie Sauve, Exhibit Chairman. Click on photos to enlarge.

At the Show - Exhibit

Sometimes miniaturists will bring a favorite exhibit back to the Good Sam Show that they displayed in an earlier year. That is the case with this week's delightful room box inspired by Mary Engelbreit's illustrations. The exhibit plays off the old saying, "Life is just a bowl of cherries." Like Mary Engelbreit's first greeting card, it features a chair piled high with bowls, and the legend "Life is just a chair of bowlies."

Kathleen Stats from Vallejo, California first exhibited her captivating 1:12 scale "Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies" at the 2009 Good Sam Show. Its humor is timeless and its charm is irreplaceable. Kathleen has been creating miniatures for about 40 years.  Photos by Connie Sauve, Exhibit Chairman.

To see more photos of this room box, go here.

At the Show - Exhibits

This week's exhibits focus on a bit of unique Americana. We share a room box inspired by Mary Engelbriet's distinctive illustrations. It is imbued with spirited wit and nostalgic warmth. The second exhibit harkens back to the 1950s. We are reminded of the many popular record hits by performers from that era.

"Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies" is 1:12 scale and was designed by Kathleen Stats, Vallejo, California and exhibited at the 2009 Good Sam Show. She told us at the time, "My husband Terry gifted me with two unpainted hutches which I finished in the Engelbreit style. The chair on the right is actually a Christmas ornament." Kathleen has been creating in miniatures for almost 40 years. Photos by Michael Puff and Connie Sauve.

This clever 1950s soda fountain/diner scene is in a vintage (or reproduction) coin-operated countertop Select-O-Matic. Many of these models graced diner booths, counters and bars across the United States in the 1950s. Customers could select songs from the jukebox for a quarter. Photographed by Connie Sauve at the 2011 Good Sam Show. The exhibitor's name is unknown.