Edinburgh Emporium 3

I'd like you all to meet Sandy, the Emporium Piper.   He'll take you round the Emporium and show you some of the items.

First of all, we have some kilts.   These are available in the mini world but I thought I'd have a go at making my own.   The fur on the sporran is real!
 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a look round some  RL shops for ideas and came across skean dhu's. A skean dhu is a ceremonial dagger worn down the side of the sock when wearing a kilt. They aren't something that's made in miniature, as I discovered after spending ages online searching, and because I'd made up my mind that I was going to have them, I had to create my own.  

Another item that I was originally going to buy was a spurtle. I wanted a few of these then decided just to make them. A spurtle is a wooden stick used for stirring porridge - very good for avoiding lumps. Folklore has it that you stir your porridge with your right hand in a clockwise direction to keep away the Devil!

 

More items for the Emporium that had to be made were post cards, cushions, slippers and half a dozen quaichs. A quaich is a shallow Scottish drinking cup traditionally made from wood but the ceremonial quaichs are made of silver or pewter.

 

 

 We also have some little flags - Saltires on the left and Lion Rampant on the right.

 

 



This painting - The Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn (circa 1795) is a well recognised Scottish painting so I had to have one of those.

There is also a selection of shortbread and whisky cake.

I couldn't do this project and NOT include Rabbie Burns - Scotland's greatest poet

 

 

 

I've also included Scotland's worst poet - William McGonagall!

 

For the sweet tooth, there is some Edinburgh Rock - terribly bad for the teeth, but yummy!

There is also my Scottish take on the famous "Little Brown Bag" -

The "Wee Broon Bag"!

...............a selection of tinned goods -

 

 

and a sampling of our other National drink!