Miniatures make me happy

A month ago my lovely friend Sian, who happens to be the deputy news editor at Metro.co.uk, asked if I'd like to be put forward for a series on collections that would be featured in their lifesty...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2023/09/my-miniatures-make-national-press.html

It’s taken a couple of years, but I’m over the moon with how my latest project has turned out. During the pandemic, I was seconded to a communications team within the NHS for 17 months. Ob...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-beautiful-beach-hut.html

I love modern miniatures - and that’s not something I ever thought I’d say. When I first started collecting more than 30 years ago, all the modern miniatures you could buy looked very unreali...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2023/05/modern-miniatures-make-me-happy.html

Alice – our Havanese dog – is the centre of our world. She’s full of love, fun and has a huge personality so of course it makes sense to have a miniature version of her. She’s a tiny dog ...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-miniature-alice.html

I love the 50s – from the furniture to the fashion – so I think my diner might be my favourite room box (at least for the moment). My 50s style 1:12 scale diner - built from scratch by my...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2022/07/rks-diner.html

This weekend my mum celebrated her 70th birthday and as it was a special occasion, I'd decided on a special present. We're very lucky to share our love of miniatures and I thought it would be nic...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-room-full-of-memories.html

A few years ago I mentioned we had 'accidentally' begun a new miniature hobby . As this one is seasonal it's a slow burner but our Christmas village is growing little by little, year by year. ...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2017/01/time-to-pack-christmas-away.html

I love going to dollshouse fairs but it's not quite the same when your current projects (my house , pub and shop) are almost completed. Window shopping is all very well but if I don't come home ...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/11/time-for-new-challenge.html

I can't tell you much about it yet but I've been playing with Lego again (as if the first time wasn't time consuming enough). This is the state of our dining room after weeks of waking in th...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-latest-lego-project.html

These days it's possible to buy almost anything you can think of in miniature. There was a time when choice was limited to a Victorian or Georgian dollshouse so it wasn't too hard to pick a theme...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/10/halloween-special-and-now-for-something.html

Continuing the tour of my 1:12 scale Tudor dollshouse that I started some years ago, the nursery is another of my favourite rooms. The nursery in 1:12 scale I could have filled this room m...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/10/tiny-toys-tour-of-my-miniature-nursery.html

I'm very lucky because I like my job - a bit of a rarity these days. Sometimes, I absolutely love my job. Recently I was able to get a bit creative and came up with something for the company webs...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/10/mixing-lego-and-collectable-miniatures.html

It turns out I'm not good at regular blogging, pretty terrible actually. It's been so long I can hardly remember how Blogger works... I'm not going to make any promises about being better but whe...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2016/10/back-to-blogging.html

Today is Shrove Tuesday so it seems only right that my miniature family should be treated to some pancakes. Lemon and sugar, anyone? Earlier in the year we visited the Inn on the Lake dolls...

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It seems we have accidentally acquired a new miniature hobby over the Christmas period. Next December we will be assembling - somewhere in the house - a very small Christmas village made up of a...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-new-miniature-hobby.html

After our successful trip to the Christmas Kensington Dollshouse Festival recently, I was determined to clear out our spare room so I could decorate my house for the festive season. After a fe...

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Yesterday my mum and I made our annual trip to the Christmas Kensington Dollshouse Festival  which turned out to be a very successful shopping spree for us both. Unlike the previous exhibition ,...

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This weekend we made our annual visit to England's Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle (more for Tim's benefit than mine but it is a good day out). While the majority of the sights and so...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-visit-to-mouse-town.html

One of my colleagues recently sent me a link to an article with the subject line 'Thought you might like this'. Like is a bit of an understatement and doesn't seem appropriate for such a magnific...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-inspirational-fairytale.html

It turns out it's harder to keep up with this blogging lark than I first thought. I really enjoy it once I get into it but because I spend almost every day at a computer, it's not always wha...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/08/sorry-ive-been-rubbish.html

Today my latest miniature project appears in the local paper the Kent & Sussex Courier - The Rachel's Return is famous! You can read the full article here . My little pub and my huge head in...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/05/fame-for-rachels-return.html

The Kensington Dollshouse Festival is one of my favourite days of the year - an opportunity to shop (and window shop) for some of the best miniatures around. Yesterday my mum and I met as usua...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-kensington-dollshouse-festival-is.html

I shall try not to make this post too gushy but I can't explain how much I LOVE my pub. My dad has done an absolutely fantastic job with the decoration and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/04/pubdate-rachels-return-is-complete.html

Although there haven't been many pub updates lately (or 'pubdates' as a friend of mine calls them), my dad has been busy in his workroom. He's had to overcome quite a few problems on this project...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-pub-in-progress-part-4.html

Local dollshouse fairs can be a bit disappointing but today's - a D&M fair at the Inn on the Lake in Gravesend, Kent - was definitely an exception.  Unusually, my mum was the first to start s...

http://miniaturesmakemehappy.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-successful-miniature-shopping-spree.html