General Chat

Ladies Miniatura is on at NEC soon makes a great day out 29 & 30th March
http://www.miniatura.co.uk/frame.htm

Would anyone like a thread where we could swap tips & ideas & may be photo's of our dolls houses? Just a thought

My only new house was bought in kit form from E Bay, it was only about £47, and is lovely!! Here's a link to the one I bought, I have since put 2 dormer windows in the attic - they cost about £2.50 each from Sue Ryder:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Three-story-eight-room-dolls-house-kit_W0QQitemZ260220498654QQihZ016QQcategoryZ2445QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Here's a link to the other kit Bob sells:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Two-story-six-room-dolls-house-kit_W0QQitemZ260220225384QQihZ016QQcategoryZ2445QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

These are half the price you would pay even in Sue Ryder.

maggie

maple street do some good stuff at good prices:
http://www.maplestreet.co.uk/

I use The Wonham Collection online - minimum order of £10 for free postage!!

http://www.thewonhamcollection.co.uk/

Sue Ryder have an online shop too - but it's a minimum order of £50 for free postage:

http://www.suerydercareshop.com/

It can be a very expensive hobbie I have saved a vast amount by making things my self or buying cheaper items and changing them.
BBQ sticks make great curtain poles. Wooden sticks from Mcdonalds (ones for string your coffee) can be used as picture frames. You can reduce photos and pictures on your pc for pictures in your dolls house

Didn't expect this thread to take off so after a chance remark on Heyley's thread about it being quiet but it's great so many of us of like mind OH interested too takes me to fairs because I don't drive and he was amazed at how many men were interested in their own right. we have been to Maple Street and hopt to get to Dolls House emporium in the near furture when the weather picks up, I am having an arthritis flare up at the moment and want to feel better on a day out so I can enjoy all I see.

I have been searching the internet for a book I got out of the library once.

It was called something like Make Dolls House furniture out of Anything

It was full of tips for using all kinds of odds and ends to make everything you can imagine.

Can I find it anywhere?

No!!

xx

It's a book by Pat King and it uses all everyday objects to make things with including pill bottles perm curlers buttons and beads and jewellery findings in fact we dolls house people don't throw anything away!!.The coffee stirrers in Macdonalds and other places are very handy !!! It's a good book for someone starting and on a limited budget.

Hi all,
I think this is a lovely thread
i have been following it , as i would love to do something like this , but never knew where to start
or get things from , keep up the good work lol.
Hazelx

Thank you Val.................that's the one. I will see if I can buy it online.

xx

Sorry for the long break ladies, son and grand-son came visiting and lent grand-son 9 next week laptop to play games on while dad and grandad were watching rugby. I can recommend a good book for anyone starting in the hobby, The New Dolls' House Do It Yourself Book by Venus and Martin Dodge, published by David £ Charles, price £12.99, covers everything, decorating and lighting, fixtures and fittings, furniture and accessories including patterns for simple furniture, The dolls house garden, and repairs and renovation.

Hi May ,
thanks for that info
I will get the book as soon as i can .
Hazelx

Hazel, I've got books on every aspect of the hobby so if you want any info just ask and I'll try to help or recommend the book you need.

I've been watching Rugby!!! Hazel where in Wales are you? ( We won ) Sorry had to get that in .......

May ,
thank you very much ,
not sure what book i would need to start me off
but what about the one
you mentionedby David E Charles.
Hazelx

The first one I mentioned , all the others are for building dolls' houses crocheting clothes and things knitting in miniture very tedious, x stitching rugs and carpets things like this that you would not ned at first.

O.K. May
thanks Hazelx

LOL Valerie ,
i live in North Wales ...Prestatyn
but i'm not welsh but have lived here for 20 yrs now
and love it .
well done wales really pleased for you
Hazelx

I use to make curtains for a dolls house shop and they use to sell them on in the end I had to stop as it was taking up every spare min that I had so I only do them when people ask.I did buy a really cheap 4 poster bed spayed it black and dressed it using silks giving it an oriental style in all it cost me about £13 and it was sold for £45. I buy fabric on a A4 sheet which you print on using your pc I scanned in a sheet of wall paper so I had matching fabric for a blind

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