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Category Archives: Miniatura
Same hall.
Whatever I said about a different hall in the last post, please ignore. I have just set up in the usual hall and so has everyone else but the layout is sideways to accommodate the restaurant facilities. What I did … Continue reading
Autumn Miniatura.
My car is all loaded and I’m ready to go this afternoon and set my table up. I’ve got three hours to do it this evening and two tomorrow. I have redesigned the stand incorporating what I hope are safer … Continue reading
Platelets on the brain.
I have no idea if there is such a thing, but if there is, I’ve got it. Last time you caught up with me I was just going to make the boxes for my gift with purchase. Days ago. This … Continue reading
The 100th Miniatura.
Is really something to celebrate. I have been to most of them. I started as a visitor in the Eighties, when the show was at the cricket ground. Some of the exhibitors were in a hall, others were on banked … Continue reading
Brand new.
The brand, if I can call it that, is me. All my dolls are mine, as you know if you are a regular reader. All my porcelain dolls begin as sculptures done by me, from which I make the moulds. … Continue reading
More dolls.
It’s been a busy week, for a sculptor. I have an excellent forgettory. I forget, in between doing it, how tricky modelling and sculpting for dolls can be. I think, as I age, that I get much pickier. A shape … Continue reading
Cramming.
I’m having a few days off from miniatures and the next Miniatura, which will be the 100th. At the end of the five years of caring for my mother, after I had had the cancer surgery, I promised myself that, … Continue reading
The 99th Miniatura.
I have been exhibiting at Miniatura for over thirty years and, as I started writing for magazines very soon after I began exhibiting, I’ve been reporting Miniatura for nearly thirty years. I have interviewed artisans, I have reported on what … Continue reading
Nearly…
It is normal, no matter how soon I start working for a show, for some people to get left on the table. This time it’s going to be the dolls’ dolls. I want to make dolls’ dolls through the ages, … Continue reading
How to be the most important person in a hall.
Three days to go to the 99th Miniatura. It is quite something for a dolls’ house show to be run by the same family for 99 shows. What usually happens with a show as successful as Miniatura is that it … Continue reading