Category Archives: Miniatura

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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