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KDF & the Mystery of the Unsigned Clock
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…
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Never Ending Journey
Yevheniia & Vavara’s path to safety. Every day, we watch horrifying scenes on our TV from Ukraine & surrounding countries but unless we are connected personally with someone suffering, can we understand the trauma of…
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40 Years of our Tiny World of Wonder
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,…
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Moving House
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…
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Exhibition of Perfection in Miniature Awards entries at Bankside Gallery
The Royal Society of Miniature Artists, Sculptors & Gravers have invited us to exhibit our P.I.M.A winners & runners up as part of their Summer Exhibition. Ever since the Perfection in Miniature Awards (PIMA) began…
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Happy 18th Birthday to the G.C.C
The Gingerbread Craft Club Comes of Age. When I took over the running of the Kensington Dollshouse Festival back in 2005 from Caroline Hamilton, one of the 1st things I introduced was our Craft Club…
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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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Caroline Simpson – The KDF Bag Lady
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…
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Amy’s Painted House
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…
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Steve’s Cabinet House
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…
