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Heart Cake From Kaybot
Valentine's Day is not something I have ever celebrated - I don't remember it being a big thing when I was young, and I suspect that it's become bigger in Australia in recent years through being...
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Another Princess
Listed on Australian ebay recently was this copy of The Australian Woman's Mirror, with the tantalising headline "Special in this issue, Princess Betty's Doll's House - A Gift Toy".The seller was quick...
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Tell Laura I Love Her ...
I recently bought two fantastic catalogues on Australian ebay, from a Sydney toy shop called Hoffnung's. They are from 1968 and 1969, and as well as the toy shop's list of stock, prices, and some black...
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A Lumberjack dolls house?
I've been spending this week in Bathurst, with my sister. Sunday was the third anniversary of our mother's death, and we like to be together on that day and on her birthday.This time, I flew down from...
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Sydney Miniatures Fair 2014
After a lovely week in Bathurst (most days were glorious autumn weather, and the leaves on the trees were such brilliant colours, especially against the blue skies), I got the train to Sydney for the...
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My buys at (and before) the Sydney Miniatures Fair 2014
I thought I'd take a photo of everything I acquired at the fair (and before) - and then realised as I was photographing them individually that I'd left out everything from one stand! So there's a...
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Season's Greetings!
The second half of last year seemed to go by so quickly .... I have new dolls houses, furniture sets and dolls I intended to blog about, but somehow didn't find the time. Now I'm on holiday, staying...
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Definitely shutters, if only I could show you!
So much has happened since I last posted about my dolls houses, I don't know where to start!In early December, I went to a conference in Newcastle, in New South Wales, for work. As Christine Jaeger...
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Woodtoys - another house and more info
While I was staying with my sister in Bathurst, we spent a couple of days in Canberra. As well as catching up with friends, meeting a collector, and picking up a dolls house that Anna-Maria was holding...
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A flower transfer house from Victoria
I've seen several houses listed on ebay in Victoria which had transfers - or decals - decorating the otherwise fairly plain front. I definitely wanted to add at least one to my collection, and when...
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A Crazy House Lady
I love cats, but don't qualify as a crazy cat lady - I only have one cat now, two until late last year ... but a crazy dolls house lady, yep, I definitely qualify for that!I spent last weekend in...
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My buys at the Sydney Miniatures and Dolls House Fair 2015
I've been back from my holiday for a week, and I want to show you what I bought at the fair. Unfortunately, one of the things I picked up last weekend was a good dose of the flu, and I am still not up...
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Yellow roses and a koala in a cardboard dolls house
This cardboard dolls house caught my eye on Australian ebay:Golden yellow is one of my favourite colours - and I love yellow roses! They have been "my" roses since, at our childhood home, I had a...
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A New Year, a summer holiday, and op-shopping!
It's so long since I have posted anything on this blog that I feel I should be wishing you Happy Everything, not just Happy New Year! I do hope that this year brings us all health, happiness, peace of...
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A Lumberjack dolls house, without doubt!
This was one of the dolls houses waiting for me in Bathurst. I had bought it on ebay, and as it was in Sydney, it made more sense to have it freighted to Bathurst than all the way here to Darwin!As...
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My first Tasmanian dolls house
This is the other dolls house which was waiting for me in Bathurst. I bought it from its original owner, who lives in Canberra, but the dolls house itself was made in Tasmania. Mary, the owner, told...
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Sydney Fair Displays - Part 1
Two weeks ago, I was at the Sydney Miniatures and Dolls House Fair. I took quite a few photos of displays, and it's taking me a while to edit them for sharing, so here is a first look. There were...
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Sydney Fair Displays, Part 2
This photo could have gone in Part 1, where I showed the two flowerpot creations. Here you see them next to a wonderful Venetian canal house was made by Lidi Stroud,...
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What I bought at the Sydney 2016 fair
should really not have been much at all, as I had just won a rather expensive antique dolls house at an auction .... (I don't have any photos of it yet, as it arrived in Bathurst after I had left).The...
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A Queenslander - or two ...
While I was in Bathurst two weeks ago, I was able to take photos of some new dolls houses. This one is my first made in the style commonly known as a Queenslander - built on stumps, with a verandah on...
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Something a bit different!
This is another of my new dolls houses in Bathurst. The house itself is fairly recent, and I don't know who made it, or even what it's made from (mdf? pine?). I bought it for the decorations - it has...
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A Right Toys dolls house - or two?
When an Australian-made dolls house is listed on Australian ebay or gumtree several times from the same area, it's a fair guess that it was made in that area. This type of dolls house on wheels has...
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H. G. Molteno, maker of Walther & Stevenson dolls house furniture
Eight years ago, I was excited to find my first dolls house furniture from the Sydney toy store Walther & Stevenson. I found more soon after that, and over the next couple of years found Walther...
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Peters Toys - Australian wooden dolls house furniture from the 1940s
 While I was in Bathurst for the summer, I did some sorting of my dolls house miniatures. This set is one I bought last year, and it's a rarity among Australian-made dolls house furnishings: it has the...
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Tebbutt's Strong Toy Co: 1930s dolls house furnishings made in Sydney
Late last year, Canberra collector Wendy Benson's dolls houses came up for sale. I was able to buy several, including some of the Australian dolls houses shown in the exhibition (and book) Dolls'...
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