Queen Mary’s Dolls House must be the most famous dolls house in the world.  The story about how it came about is well known, a gift to Queen Mary from Princess Marie-Louise, the house was designed…

It took me a while, but it finally sunk in.  2024 is the 40th Anniversary of Kensington Dollshouse Festival!  It was born in 1985 as the London Dollshouse Festival by Caroline Hamilton & Sue Atkinson,…

The trials & tribulations of re-location on a small scale. The grand, 18th century dolls’ house at Uppark is among the most historically important in the country, and one of only a handful that have…

As a resident of East London, The Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (Now re-named the Young V&A) has always been a special place.  Somewhere I took my children to as they grew up & somewhere you…

How one of our visitors to Kensington Dollshouse Festival ended up creating a very special mini carrier bag for our 2023 LDF Members. At LDF, we try to have everything you could possibly want or need…

Most of us would think of a mother of 4 children aged 4 & under (daughter Eliza and 2 year old triplets, William, Grace and Margot) as someone who probably didn’t get much time to herself…

The talking point of the Kensington Dollshouse Festival this year was an incredible miniature house created by Steve Putnam. As a regular visitor to our shows, Steve Putnam was a familiar face around the Festival…

Sabrina’s quirky & witty take on haute cuisine. Sabrina Lee was not someone particularly familiar with miniatures.  She did like cute & tiny things like many people do, but that was as far as it went.  Sabrina…

Jennifer Kallin talks about her passion for Triang dolls houses. When I was a child I always loved miniature things seen in museum cases, free gifts in comics & cereal boxes, pictures in books &…