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On the floor.
What do you find if you look on the floor? If you’re a miniaturist I bet isn’t just ‘a carpet.’ As you progress in the hobby you inevitably go down scale just to see if you can do it. The … Continue reading
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Here kitty kitty.
If you read the previous post below, you won’t be surprised to hear I’ve spent the day interviewing lace. I have a massive collection of small lace, which started probably thirty-five years ago. As my dolls have gone down in … Continue reading
Miniature versions of dolls through history.
Do you remember this? These are a few of the dolls that got as far as the porcelain last show, which I intend to offer as dolls’ dolls, dolls of the past and dolls from history. I’m beginning here with … Continue reading
The best laid plans…
It had been my intention today to have a solid day of doll dressing, interspersed with telling you all about nineteenth century French Fashion dolls, which may have been responsible for doll mania in the twentieth century, the development of … Continue reading
French fashion.
Do you remember these dolls? These are the French Fashion dolls which I didn’t get round to dressing last time. It takes about six months for an idea to get out of my head and into porcelain reality, usually. However, … Continue reading
Artistic activity.
Probably thirty years ago, or more, Terry Curran asked me, now that I had turned my hobby into my job what I was going to do for a hobby. Good question, card making might be one of the answers. It … Continue reading
Still achoo.
As I still have this streaming cold I don’t feel well enough to do much. Television is stupid. (You noticed?) Books are heavy to hold and I only have five minutes before I cough again. I need something which you … Continue reading
Achoo.
Yes I have the cold. If I were a man it would be flu. The OH brought it home and sat and sneezed without benefit of a handkerchief or tissue, saying that he was paralysed when sneezing. It took two … Continue reading
Piles.
Yes, I have piles, I have piles of piles and lots of them. Putting cream on them will not help. Sucking my stomach in and thinking of higher things is no help at all and eating prunes doesn’t make a … Continue reading
End of year* pop quiz.
Television channels and magazines are full of them, this time of year. Quizzes, that is. This is actually because no editor can get the journalists out of the bar for love nor money. Here the quiz is because I like … Continue reading