Category Archives: Dolls

Decluttering.

I’m very sorry to start with a rude word.  If you are a collector (meaning miniaturist because there are not many ways of being the one without being the other) the thought of downscaling sometimes makes you breathe all funny. … Continue reading

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Always present part 2

The last posting was a summation of all that had occurred over half a month or more.  In these weeks I lost, my garden, my privacy and my will to live. However, the darkest hour is just before dawn.  (This … Continue reading

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How to make a doll’s doll’s dolls etc

As regular readers (hello, how are you?) know, I have been a bit obsessed with doll’s doll’s dolls. I thought you might like to have a go yourself. You will need : a face coloured bead, thickish thread, very fine … Continue reading

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Cutting the ribbon.

What does this look like to you? Yes it is a box. I wonder what is inside it? Another box.  Some numbers and some things. Not necessarily helpful. What is left inside the big box? More things in bigger compartments. … Continue reading

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Bear with.

Is one of those irritating modern partial phrases.  It has nothing to do with bears, irritatingly.  It has a dangling preposition and, as a helpful comment, is unhelpful.  It seeks to disguise the ineptitude of the speaker by dumping the … Continue reading

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Up.

You know I said I would tell you when the shop is up and running? It is! ~~~~~~~~~~~

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Doll’s dolls and dolls dolls dolls. etc.

I am nearly ready to set up tomorrow but I thought you’d like a look at all the doll’s dolls.  I haven’t had time to do a proper photo, I just piled them all on a sofa. Some of the … Continue reading

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Lord and Lady Clapham.

Not some nobs opening Miniatura by cutting a ribbon, but the names of a very famous pair of 17th century dolls.  I have been obsessed by these dolls, who now live in the V&A, for as long as I’ve been … Continue reading

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Jane Austen doll’s doll.

What is this?  Dead spider?  Scrap off the floor?  It’s quite small as you can tell  by the needle.  It is a discarded bonnet.  I have been dressing the one inch jointed Jane Austen dolls; this bonnet didn’t quite come … Continue reading

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It’s all Greek to me.

This little doll’s doll is my version of a very old doll indeed. She’s about 2,500 years old, which is knocking on by any reckoning.  Porcelain is not a bad medium in which to have made this copy, the original, … Continue reading

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