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Miniature Tales: Back to business
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Saturday, 26 October 2013. The lovely long summer days on the boat have faded into the crisp autumn reality of a new job and everything that this brings with it. The sad end result is that my poor miniatures have been long-neglected. As he's creating Meg's house for me from one of my earlier stories. I have All-Fingers-Crossed for a Tuesday delivery, so you might want to brace yourselves for an unbearably excited blog update, with far too many photos and exclamation marks! View my complete profile.
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Miniature Tales: Singing the blues
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Monday, 29 July 2013. One of my other real pleasures in life is boating. We're lucky enough to own our own narrowboat and there's not much in life that can beat throwing the kids and the dog on board and travelling around England. At 3 miles per hour. Unfortunately, with the torrential rain of the past 24 hours, it means the rivers are officially in flood and we're going nowhere. It's typical - umpteen weeks of heatwave and the weather only breaks when we're ready to head out on the boat. 29 July 2013 at...
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Miniature Tales: June 2013
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Sunday, 30 June 2013. I must confess that I'm probably the unluckiest person in the world. If 101 tickets were sold in a raffle with 100 prizes, you can pretty much guarantee that I'll be the one left at the end. Yes, that'd be me - the one who wasn't even lucky enough to get the knitted poodle toilet-roll cover in the sickly shade of 1970s avocado green. So imagine my surprise this morning, when I discovered I'd won a giveaway prize on MitchyMoo Miniatures. Friday, 14 June 2013. Patience is a virtue, or...
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Miniature Tales: A game of two halves!
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Thursday, 25 July 2013. A game of two halves! As far as the best laid plans of mice and men go, this one has definitely gone awry! I had such noble intentions of doing the whole of the outsides of the house for nothing (mostly because I think I'm going to need the money for cafe contents! But no matter how I tried, cardboard roof tiles just didn't look as good as the real tiles on my other properties. Against the lovely Richard Stacey individual bricks, it looked plain wrong. And lo, there it was! I love...
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Miniature Tales: July 2013
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Monday, 29 July 2013. One of my other real pleasures in life is boating. We're lucky enough to own our own narrowboat and there's not much in life that can beat throwing the kids and the dog on board and travelling around England. At 3 miles per hour. Unfortunately, with the torrential rain of the past 24 hours, it means the rivers are officially in flood and we're going nowhere. It's typical - umpteen weeks of heatwave and the weather only breaks when we're ready to head out on the boat. Thursday, 25 Ju...
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blackberritart miniatures: October 2010
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Friday, October 15, 2010. What an amazing doll artist! Http:/ www.renatajansen.co.uk/. Not 1:12 scale but amazing detail. Thank you, ladies! Bozse makes exquisite minis! Monday, October 11, 2010. Last week i got lots of stuff:) two lovely paintings (and a tissue box) from lyssa at lyssaheartsdollhouses.blogspot.com/. Visit her etsy shop here. And i got a gargoyle and some unfinished cabinets from victoria at darksquirrelminiatures.blogspot.com. Visit her etsy shops here. Sunday, October 10, 2010. Feeling...
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Miniature Tales: May 2013
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013. My lovely husband bought me the coolest ever present for my birthday last year - a dolls' house. I'd had an amazing dolls' bungalow as a tiny girl, which I loved. My dad had built it for me from scratch and it was wallpapered and furnished beautifully (or as far as 70s decor allowed! Imagine my horror as a teenager to open a cupboard in the caravan and to see it floored out with severed bits of bungalow. My excuse is that I've never recovered from the shock! 19, Linton Lane. It's ...
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Miniature Tales: Patience
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Friday, 14 June 2013. Patience is a virtue, or so I'm told. It's definitely not one of mine, that's for sure. The agonising wait for my latest purchase to cross the Atlantic, party a bit in customs and finally turn up today has been a nail biting experience. Would it get damaged? Would it be as amazing in person as it was in pictures? What on earth was I going to use it for? There wasn't a story attached to this one - it was bought on sheer impulse to celebrate a promotion. 25 June 2013 at 09:43. Thankfu...
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Miniature Tales: And we're off!
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013. The £100 house is well underway, and now I've finished work for the summer, we've no excuse for not cracking ahead. The brickwork on the shop is pretty neat, but quite a few were damaged and needed gentle prising off and replacing. A bit of TLC and a generous slathering of mortar, and the place is starting to look pretty good. I'm stuck in the car and suffering dreadfully with only a sizey paperback and a G&T for company.". I grabbed the box of paint and ran! The green woodwork nee...
