Today I went to the fair in London's Docklands, and resisted the temptation to bring home another diddy house. I was disappointed that neither of my favourite makers was there. Dick of Skegness Dollshouses, who made my big Art Deco house, and Sue and Alan of Sue and Alan's Little Treasures, were missing from this fair as they had been from the last.
This is one of Sue and Alan's individually handcrafted Tudor houses. They made me one to my own specifications that lives in my bedroom.
I still managed to live up to my old habit of never doing things by halves, and I decided to buy some miniature paintings. As I couldn't choose between them, however, I ended up buying two sets of 3 each. The painter, Norman Whiting, is 76, and manages to paint his tiny pictures without a magnifying glass.
your dolls house looks absolutely charming and as for the miniatures... well just how miniature are they???
ReplyDeleteThat is one very interesting hobby you've got there Val...very beautiful!
ReplyDeletevery funny Diane!
Ann, they are about 1 1/2 inches by 2 or 2 1/2.
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ReplyDeletewhat a sweet little doll house. the detail is amazing.
Diane - you crack me up. Always thinking outside the box!
ReplyDeleteI had a dollhouse when I was a kid; my mom still has it in storage. They'd buy me the furniture from The Yieldhouse; it was very expensive and very collectible.
Of course being a kid, I preferred the cardboard box I made into a house for my smallest stuffed animals. I made all cardboard furniture and cut pictures of out magazines to decorate it.