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Kensington Dollshouse Festival Christmas Show 2023
The Kensington Dollshouse Festival Christmas Show is happening on December 2nd 2023 We loved catching up with all our regulars at the KDF Summer Show earlier this month, but we don’t have time to rest,…
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The Young V&A – A Museum for Children or a Museum about our Childhood?
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…
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Dolls House Club members read this!
Are you a member of a dolls house club? You are eligible for reduced price tickets to our shows. Kensington Town Hall has always been a place when dolls house enthusiasts, collectors & artisans can…
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Featured Artist : Natalia Frank
How do you keep your mind focused on the end goal when working in such a small scale? Natalia explains about the 5 P’s. Having a vast variety of interests in life, Natalia Frank brought…
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Featured Artisan : Annelies de Kort
The lovely Annelies has been exhibiting at our shows for about 5 years, but she has been creating miniature needlework for so much longer. Her most recognizable pieces are her hand knitted Norwegian fair isle jumpers…
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Featured Artisan : Rachel Hinds
New to the world of miniatures, Rachel talks about how she stumbled into this magical, tiny world. “It all started with miniature masterpieces. Back in 2020 during lockdown, I’d been painting in oils seriously for…
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Featured Artisan : MiniaturesMad
Kamila Dlugowolska has always seen making miniatures as playing, rather than her job. This is probably because her love of dolls houses began when she was a child & she played with cardboard room boxes that…
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Featured Artisan : Gloria Cadenas
In 2011, Gloria’s children gave her a dolls house as a reward for giving up smoking. Gloria is joining our showcase for the first time & she tells us a little more about her latest…
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Featured Artisan : Alan’s Miniature Woodturnings
Alan Cottingham had been a French polisher/cabinet maker for over 20 years when he was made redundant in 2021. He side-stepped into another job as industrial sprayer, where he was supervising the restoration of the…
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Featured Artisan : Antonella Nardi
Antonella knew nothing about the world of miniatures until her daughter, Lucrezia, took her to Miniaturitalia, the fabulous dolls house show that takes place in Milan each spring. She was over-awed by what she saw,…