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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947022039783965930.post-10045608030130026162011-02-20T08:12:00.000+08:002011-02-20T08:12:18.457+08:00hobbit holeHave you seen the hobbit hole, <a href="http://madshobbithole.wordpress.com/">Bag End from LotR? Made by Maddie Chambers</a>, it's an absolutely amazing creation.<br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://jadeluxe.wordpress.com/">Jade</a> for the link!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947022039783965930.post-43990003380366602972010-07-11T12:21:00.003+08:002010-07-11T12:30:16.184+08:00I'm back....I'm not normally so neglectful of my blogs, I promise -- I've just been rather busy lately, moving house.<br /><br />Anyway, I have more mini pics to show -- these are of some toys.<br /><br />This rubber duck is made from Sculpey, very easy to do.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU1-qYy_h47EEiGe4AhPPZmM-TE3WumhSR2dYENNfVaHrmdljkQjcTyeLgoNT0lMDjZlQYnb3iY6f3-jiHvA_EkbTsKxsxHpG9_OoLz8YCYTMgL5SxKlS5CqV9YAc5TWwYB-njnzynw1z/s1600/DSCF1418.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU1-qYy_h47EEiGe4AhPPZmM-TE3WumhSR2dYENNfVaHrmdljkQjcTyeLgoNT0lMDjZlQYnb3iY6f3-jiHvA_EkbTsKxsxHpG9_OoLz8YCYTMgL5SxKlS5CqV9YAc5TWwYB-njnzynw1z/s320/DSCF1418.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492500494969741186" /></a><br /><br />This gorgeous teddy was made for me many years ago, and I've completely forgotten the ladys' name! (very embarrassed) He has moveable arms and legs!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01N7XRUN963pHjzMLo0UvTUXQ2ZaM0VvrssjdoPH6iBgJ8tJweBq5qIqnipFIOp2pyZP1A4WOlMKJ_qgL7g0px2De7tRnagInwY2Af1Py5ri6ybHLaHWGcji9RrZRZ5gwDHxTAZ-LYI2H/s1600/DSCF1407.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01N7XRUN963pHjzMLo0UvTUXQ2ZaM0VvrssjdoPH6iBgJ8tJweBq5qIqnipFIOp2pyZP1A4WOlMKJ_qgL7g0px2De7tRnagInwY2Af1Py5ri6ybHLaHWGcji9RrZRZ5gwDHxTAZ-LYI2H/s320/DSCF1407.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492500488279827746" /></a><br /><br />These dolls are made from a simple pipe-cleaner armature, a wooden bead, and scraps of ribbon and embroidery thread.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQHWD2nR1SiKC6zJBKYSK4zEeu-GPKre7Vwqr7kA6jGgTbrjtB8aqaHDT0-ZjUpVvshRC3SO7glHbS1WuGQtyOSjOGjMDRdeOeStl-HYmQa3W26PFQ-8HfOZBr5tG4JRoO4_xWKmDwKk/s1600/DSCF1401.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQHWD2nR1SiKC6zJBKYSK4zEeu-GPKre7Vwqr7kA6jGgTbrjtB8aqaHDT0-ZjUpVvshRC3SO7glHbS1WuGQtyOSjOGjMDRdeOeStl-HYmQa3W26PFQ-8HfOZBr5tG4JRoO4_xWKmDwKk/s320/DSCF1401.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492500483223151730" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947022039783965930.post-81950828252125537792010-05-07T09:02:00.002+08:002010-05-07T09:28:38.565+08:00Monopoly and a rugI thought I might begin by posting some of the items I've made or collected over the years. Much of this has been in storage for 4 years so it's looking a little battered now.<br />I stitched this rug from a pattern so long ago I've forgotten where I found it, and it took an age to complete - all those medallions! <br />The Monopoly game was printed in a magazine, and maybe one day I'll make houses, hotels etc for it as well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLImlOmqC3JqqrcNMG6wNIPtXQkoRWwspQSZ4xHzRf86lfMuCJQ4XVP_O5Ap1vdjYaTKROXEd8mh1nLCcJRGPXUcQn3sqdIbLUfXR1lxsKDJVuJnrI_RlV8xkU6o9unmC-zkMVkP_ayTOo/s1600/DSCF1398.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLImlOmqC3JqqrcNMG6wNIPtXQkoRWwspQSZ4xHzRf86lfMuCJQ4XVP_O5Ap1vdjYaTKROXEd8mh1nLCcJRGPXUcQn3sqdIbLUfXR1lxsKDJVuJnrI_RlV8xkU6o9unmC-zkMVkP_ayTOo/s400/DSCF1398.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468330345203421202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6leLKJ-frfaH15cGbDalHv_6nAlkqgI5tA8WkQhCodkO1jIEG_J1y2TOvorbZQ85QeBvf66qUSsG-D0u6kZBtYKYmN2oBGJNcWRDiKoaX-7x2JuEXwkvGyIUDgJbYmRkKZ0JoZr4A2E0q/s1600/DSCF1394.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6leLKJ-frfaH15cGbDalHv_6nAlkqgI5tA8WkQhCodkO1jIEG_J1y2TOvorbZQ85QeBvf66qUSsG-D0u6kZBtYKYmN2oBGJNcWRDiKoaX-7x2JuEXwkvGyIUDgJbYmRkKZ0JoZr4A2E0q/s400/DSCF1394.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468330332539893058" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947022039783965930.post-83106991227713902692010-05-06T19:16:00.000+08:002010-05-06T19:39:22.766+08:00first postI've loved dollshouses since I was a little girl. I had a couple back then, in the late 60s and early 70s, but I grew up and life got in the way, and I didn't think about them much till the late 1990s.<br />I started off as a grown-up, by making myself a witches' kitchen, complete with cauldron and broomstick. Not long after that, I spotted a Dollshouse and Miniature Scene magazine in the newsagency, and I was entranced!<br />I'd had no idea that 'real' artisans and craftsmen made miniatures, nor that a dollshouse could be so perfect that you had to look hard before you realised it wasn't someones' actual home!<br />I eventually was given a beaten-up old ply house, and spent many happy hours fiddling around with it, but with no real clue what I was doing.<br />When the Del Prado part series came out, I collected it, and built the house, but then got busy with two other 'miniature' projects -- my babies, Kate and Jack.<br />The houses went into the shed, the furnishings into plastic tubs. Eventually I gave the houses away, and now am waiting till I have the room to start again.<br /><br />I have BIG dreams. <br />If I won Lotto, I would want a Mackintosh house, like <a href="http://www.cameronhouse.org.uk/pages.php?projID=1&pageID=1">this one</a>.<br />I would like to have an American Hamptons Beach style house, an early Australian cottage, a modern apartment, a series of 3 room boxes showing a bedsit in 3 different eras.... LOTS of ideas.<br /><br />And one day, if I'm very very lucky, I may yet get my dream houses!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3