Category Archives: Dolls

Rock star.

I did the man who was lying in the old meat tray looking at me.  A lot of dolls live in polystyrene meat trays.  The trays are very old because I’ve been vegetarian for years but the supermarket expanded  polystyrene … Continue reading

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Smile please.

Where does the time go? I’ve spent the day, so far photographing dolls, or to be more accurate, trying to photograph dolls. Of course all my dolls move, they would do, they’re articulated.  And the clothes all move, they would … Continue reading

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Lady two.

I have finished dressing the second lady.  This doll really has everything. Drawers and shoes (the shoes are removable, the drawers are not.) She has a shift which is removable and has a drawstring neck like the real sixteenth century … Continue reading

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Doll’s dolls dolls.

At ten to eleven last night I finally finished the first little girl doll.  She is just over three inches so she is probably about four years old. She might not look like a doll dressed according to a portrait … Continue reading

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Tudor doll.

Here she is and, as you can see, she has found the doll now I need to dress her daughter, or maybe, her friend. Stay tuned. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Here kitty kitty, oh there you are.

I am happy to say the Tudor doll’s doll kits are done.  Each variant is packaged but, naturally, that is not the end of it.  Having designed the doll, the kit and the instructions then you have to design a … Continue reading

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Oh my ears and whiskers.

I have been in such a terrible rush lately, I decided to calm myself by quickly drawing a picture of a slow loris.  Here it is The fast loris is, as yet, uncaptured by science; the slow loris, at once … Continue reading

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Here kitty, kitty 2.

It’s amazing the stuff you have to think about when you’re designing a doll kit for other miniaturists to make.  It’s got to be sufficiently difficult and adequately interesting but absolutely not look impossible. I have a lot of furniture … Continue reading

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On the floor.

What do you find if you look on the floor? If you’re a miniaturist I bet isn’t just ‘a carpet.’  As you progress in the hobby you inevitably go down scale just to see if you can do it.  The … Continue reading

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Here kitty kitty.

If you read the previous post below, you won’t be surprised to hear I’ve spent the day interviewing lace.  I have a massive collection of small lace, which started probably thirty-five years ago.  As my dolls have gone down in … Continue reading

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