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Category Archives: Dolls
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
Kiss it better.
I was approached at Miniatura by Amanda, who had rehomed one of the fairies a few years ago. Looking into her dolls’ house Amanda was alarmed to find that her fairy had a floppy head and brought the fairy back … Continue reading
Spooky!
Can you hum the theme from the Twilight Zone? Ooh very good. (Isn’t it amazing how much shared culture there is globally? If you couldn’t it goes: doodle doodle doodle doodle ooowee owweee oow doodle doodle etc.) Anyhow (good humming, … Continue reading