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Category Archives: Dolls
Suspense.
Apologies are due for the fulsome radio silence. I have been working twelve hour days because it’s only two weeks to Miniatura and, as usual I should have started weeks before I did. I’m sure some conscientious folk start getting … Continue reading
The naming of things.
The naming of things is both difficult, important and occasionally accidental. I just delivered a wedding card to an old friend, universally known as Pog. This is not the name he was christened at all, it’s the name his sister … Continue reading
On the good ship…
Lollipop, sang Shirley Temple in the film Bright Eyes. This created vast numbers of baby girls being christened Shirley, lots of Shirley Temple merchandise and, of course dolls. I am working on additions to the display of doll’s dolls through … Continue reading
Art Deco.
It is quite a while since I showed you a doll sitting in her underwear waiting for me to make the rest of her clothes. Here she is, dressed turned out very glam, didn’t she? The underwear is not removable, … Continue reading
Art deco dressing.
Sorry for the radio silence, I have been and still am, dolling for a collector. There is a deadline so I have to get on with it. The collector would like a couple of glass eyed twelfth scale ladies, so … Continue reading
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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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