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Category Archives: Dolls
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
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
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
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
A first.
Well here’s a first. The table is covered in china painting and I’m not doing it. It’s just sitting there. I love china painting, it’s the reward for all the dreadful grit scrubbing. Why am I not doing it? Well. … Continue reading
OH! Ooh! Ow!
I did it. I unpacked the kiln this morning, look. Two shelves full of 48th, which is only a particular number of dolls when you start to match them up and see how many left legs you have for a … Continue reading
Dolls by popular request.
I am always happy to answer emails, in fact I’m utterly thrilled you bother to write. Thank you if you do. I got a lovely email asking how I could look at a doll I’d made and decide it was … Continue reading
Creativity.
If you are a creative person, the effect of not being able to make stuff for four and a half years and then suddenly being able to do so, is like a little hole in a dam. I couldn’t do … Continue reading
Wastage rates.
I am busy rubbing down the newest six 24th scale dolls. I am keeping busy, as so often in the last few years. If the body of someone close to you is affected by disease, once you are sure you … Continue reading
Mouldy round the edges.
One of the ways I can tell I’m getting older, apart from teensy weensy clues such as a mirror, is how long it takes me to recover from mould making. You probably don’t think of mould making as being physically … Continue reading