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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
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
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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Tagged how to make a dolls' doll, making a very small doll
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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
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
Up.
You know I said I would tell you when the shop is up and running? It is! ~~~~~~~~~~~
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
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
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
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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