HAPPY NEW YEAR

WISHING ALL MY FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS

A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

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**** NEW DOLL on the "MY FAVOURITE DOLL" page ****

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THE GARDEN OF TRANQUILITY

(Website Id:  (Dioramas) Europe - Wales - 0033)

(Diorama I made in 2002)

How I made this diorama:

This is a little garden which I made in 2002.  I purchased the little cherub and the large terracotta pot in a Charity Shop, which gave me the idea for the diorama.  To make the running water I used scenic water (which has yellowed slightly with age). The bits of fern are real dried pieces of fern and I made the flowers with Fimo.  To make the running water (after much thought!)  I poured some of the scenic water over a pencil and left it to "set". When set, I glued the end into the pot (probably NOT the correct way to do it!). The bottom of the liner for the pond is part of a cheesecake container. (I don't throw much away!)  I painted the path and steps and sprinkled some miniature garden scatter around, while it was still wet.  I also added some tiny pieces of real moss around the flowers and steps.  I brought the stones for the rockery back from one of my holidays abroad!  Finally, I glued a length of real, delicate shrub around the "walls".  This was from my garden.  The glass fronted box in which the garden is set, is also from a Charity Shop.

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MY FAVOURITE DOLL:
On this blog I am adding a lovely doll onto the "MY FAVOURITE DOLL" page, with the kind permission of DIANA from WALES.  It is a very treasured childhood doll.  You can see further information about the doll by clicking onto "MY FAVOURITE DOLL" at the top, right hand side of the HOME page of the blog.  I am also listing two dolls from PAPUA NEW GUINEA.  For further information about them, please see the website.  You can also see my Diorama, "The Garden of Tranquility" on the website, under "Dioramas"

DIANA'S DOLL

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA

(Website Id:  Oceania - Papua New Guinea - 004, 004A and 004B)

 PAPUA NEW GUINEA

(Website Id:  Oceania - Papua New Guinea - 005 and 005A)

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Have you made a New Year Resolution? Each time I have made one it has been broken in a very short time, but this year I am planning to make more miniatures (time permitting!), but of coarse, first and foremost is my doll collection. I will as always be looking out for new additions to my collection. The exciting thing about collecting is not knowing when you will come across something new and interesting for your collection, so happy searching everyone!   Carole.

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MOROCCAN AND PUERTO RICO DOLLS (and an outside toilet diorama!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Welcome to my new followers.  I hope you will enjoy my site!
This is such a busy month for a lot of people.  I have been trying to keep up with my doll cataloguing but have only had time for a few.  The outside toilet is one which I made C.2000, so I have cheated a bit!  (Do you remember these?)  The old tin bath was quite often hanging up on the outside wall.  Some used to call this type of toilet "the lavvy" or "the privvy". 

On this Blog I am putting my Father Christmas from Vietnam, dolls from Morocco and Puerto Rico, and another of my Dioramas - an outside toilet.

For further information about the dolls and information about this type of outside toilet and how I made it, please see the website.

OOPS!  Poor Father Christmas has fallen down the chimney again this year!

(This doll is not catalogued.

He is for decoration only).

 Father Christmas from Vietnam.

(Not catalogued).

 MOROCCO

(Website Id:  Africa - Morocco - 0014)

 MOROCCO

(Website Id:  Africa - Morocco - 0015)

 PUERTO RICO

(Website Id:  America - Puerto Rico - 003)

 AN OUTSIDE TOILET

(Website Id:  (Dioramas) Europe - Wales - 0034)

 AN OUTSIDE TOILET

(Website Id: (Dioramas) Europe - Wales - 0034A)

 AN OUTSIDE TOILET

(Website Id:  (Dioramas) Europe - Wales - 0034B

ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS!

(Carole).

COMMENT RECEIVED BY EMAIL - 1st.. August.

QUOTE:

Hi Carole,  Whilst browsing your site I came across this item. You bought back 
such memories. As  a small  child I can remember running across the yard of the 
farm to the outside toilet. In the dark I was always terrified something was 
waiting to jump on me. I also recall hot water bottles in bed, no heating in the 
Winter . We just accepted it in those days - - - - - .

REPLY BY CAROLE:

Hi. thank you for taking the trouble to comment on my outside toilet.

I also remember using one across the yard at my grandparents house and taking a torch with me.  It was the spiders I didn't like in the dark!

I can remember having hot water bottles.  I still have my own original stone one from the 1940's.  I also remember having to scrape ice off the inside of the bedroom window some mornings, to see outside, and like you, we also used to wear a dressing gown in bed to keep warm!  Things have certainly changed!

NEW DOLLS AND MINIATURE KNITTING LISTED ON WEBSITE

POLAND, PORTUGAL (MADEIRA) AND GHANA DOLLS,

(AND MINIATURE KNITTING)

On my blog this time I have listed more dolls (as above) and also some miniature knitting which I have recently finished.

For more pictures and information about the dolls, please see the website.  The knitting (anti-macassar set), and a room in the dolls house in which I have put them, can also be seen on the website, under "Dioramas".

Carole.

POLAND

(Website Id:  Europe - Poland - 0018)

 PORTUGAL (MADEIRA)

Doll rattle.

(Website Id:  Europe - Portugal (Maderia) - 0015 and 0015A

 GHANA

(Website Id:  Africa - Ghana - 009)

 MINIATURE CHAIR BACK (Antimacassar)

one of a set of three

(Website Id:  (Dioramas) Europe - Wales - 0032, 0032A and 0032B)

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NEW DOLL VALUES PAGE ON BLOG

THE VALUE OF DOLLS

I have added a NEW PAGE called : THE VALUE OF DOLLS onto my Blog.

To see the page, just click onto "THE VALUE OF DOLLS" at the top, right hand side of this page (the Home Page).  I hope you will find it useful.

More dolls will be listed shortly.

Carole.

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