Category Archives: Dolls

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

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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

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Many dolls.

Over the last few weeks I have poured, fired and assembled 44 dolls.  To be exact I have assembled 44 dolls from the many more that I poured, fired, glazed, china painted and fired again. When you are making dolls … Continue reading

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Small dolls.

I am busy now assembling dolls.  I realise when I set the parameters for this blog that I don’t often put dolls in the subject matter, which is a bit odd when that is, principally, what I make. It might … Continue reading

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Dressing.

Not mayonnaise, glass eyed dolls. I haven’t got time to say much, it’s a week and a bit to the show and it takes me several days to dress a glass eyed twelfth scale doll.  Here’s the latest. As you … Continue reading

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More dolls

Here we are at the first of March, the only item of interest in Jane Towers is the dolls.  This is frequently the case but ever more so with only eighteen days to go to the show. I have not … Continue reading

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Doll stringing

..does not involve string at all. As usual with miniature versions of craftsman made items, the smaller you go, the trickier it gets and the first thing you have to make are the tools to do the job. Full size … Continue reading

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Dolls for the Min

Under normal circumstances, whatever they are, at this point a few weeks before the show I would be dashing around like a mad fool, doing multitasking, other wise known as displacement activity. The facial injury, however, makes anything other than … Continue reading

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Shop!

When I threatened  a shop here again, or, to be exact, the S&H thought he could do a shop here again, I thought a response to the question, would you like one? might come flooding in. As no response has … Continue reading

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Keep the faith.

As the solicitors are still dealing with my mother’s will I have been unable to sell the last effects from her rooms at the care home.  There are pictures and some furniture.  I had put them all in the little … Continue reading

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