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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Vintage Purls" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 29, 11:28 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote: I don't know what a Sylvannian house is. Sylvanian Families is a brand of plastic houses that can be populated with little animals instead of dolls. I don't care much for the animals but their houses and furnishings (despite being plastic) are quite detailed. I have "Willow Hall" and a friend in Japan sends me furniture. It satisfies my desire to arrange tiny things into a pretty scene. http://www.sylvanianfamilies.com/ Heavens! That's very clever marketing apart from anything else :-) I love that you're making the house war period - that's exactly the era of house I'd like to make. I hope you can share some photos along the way, especially when you've knitted up some tiny outfits. Well, I shall - but it's going to be a l-o-n-g project! This morning I was going to discard a by now very thin facecloth. I brought dozens of new, thick, facecloths from my Mum's so don't need to continue with out old ones any more. Then I realised that although it was so thin it would make good scale towels for Marntlock* House (the dolls' house). I can see that I'm going to be spending my life in the next few months seeing how things could scale down appropriately g And carrying a 6" ruler (size of a dollshouse man) to assess relative size to 1/12th scale!!! Mary * my godfather inscribed a plate with this name over the front door, it's made up from the first three letters of my first name, the middle three from my middle name and the last three from my (maiden) last name: Mary Bentley Livock. |
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:30:33 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote: Well, I shall - but it's going to be a l-o-n-g project! This morning I was going to discard a by now very thin facecloth. I brought dozens of new, thick, facecloths from my Mum's so don't need to continue with out old ones any more. That's funny. I'm always looking for thin faceclothes, which are not sold much any more. I hate the thick ones. Maybe we should do an exchange! Then I realised that although it was so thin it would make good scale towels for Marntlock* House (the dolls' house). I can see that I'm going to be spending my life in the next few months seeing how things could scale down appropriately g I furnished a doll's house for my daughters when they were little. The house itself had been made for a nursery school by one of the teachers. It was very simple, with four rooms, stacked two over two. It was also more shallow than most doll houses, so that little hands could arrange the furniture without knocking things over. I made sofas, beds, and chairs from an old set of painted wooden building blocks, of various shapes, that my daughters had outgrown. I used margarine tub lids (and similar), glued to blocks, as tables. I made lampshades from toothpaste caps. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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Try locating a secondhand book called Doll's House needlecrafts (over 250
Projecs in 12th scale by Venus A. Dodge. ISBN 0 7153 1358 4 I should think it is still available either on ebay or from Amazon, I worked in 12th scale alot for a while, and still have this book and it is lovely. cheers......Cher |
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"Margaret" wrote in message ... ... I can see that I'm going to be spending my life in the next few months seeing how things could scale down appropriately g And carrying a 6" ruler (size of a dollshouse man) to assess relative size to 1/12th scale!!! Not for a 1940s Englishman, there were some but they were unusual. And especially so in our family :-( Robyn's father (our No 2 son) is the tallest in our family. When we went to his passing out parade we couldn't see him, he was smaller than most of the others marching - even most of the girls were taller than he was. He's still not more than 5'8" until he dons his high heeled motorbike boots and helmet.. Our two oldest grandsons are 6' at 21 and they stick out like sore thumbs on family photographs :-) Spouse is 5'5". Mary |
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"Y?" wrote in message .uk... Try locating a secondhand book called Doll's House needlecrafts (over 250 Projecs in 12th scale by Venus A. Dodge. ISBN 0 7153 1358 4 I should think it is still available either on ebay or from Amazon, I worked in 12th scale alot for a while, and still have this book and it is lovely. cheers......Cher I'll have a look for that, thank you. Mary |
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"Y?" wrote in message .uk... Try locating a secondhand book called Doll's House needlecrafts (over 250 Projecs in 12th scale by Venus A. Dodge. ISBN 0 7153 1358 4 I should think it is still available either on ebay or from Amazon, I worked in 12th scale alot for a while, and still have this book and it is lovely. cheers......Cher Now ordered from Amazon, thanks again. Mary |
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"B Vaughan" wrote in message ... That's funny. I'm always looking for thin faceclothes, which are not sold much any more. I hate the thick ones. Maybe we should do an exchange! Barbara, try looking for baby facecloths. You can get packs of 8 or 10 for very little money at places like Target, Babies R Us, etc. LauraJ |
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I think you'll find that the blue covered paperback which I have, and the
hard back are exactly the same....you may not be able to get the knitting needles for some of the knitted items but two long darning needles will do.I used this idea very successfully for a long while until I bought some proper ones. I think the DH shop in warminster stocks these needles too. Cher "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Y?" wrote in message .uk... Try locating a secondhand book called Doll's House needlecrafts (over 250 Projecs in 12th scale by Venus A. Dodge. ISBN 0 7153 1358 4 I should think it is still available either on ebay or from Amazon, I worked in 12th scale alot for a while, and still have this book and it is lovely. cheers......Cher Now ordered from Amazon, thanks again. Mary |
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"Y?" wrote in message .uk... I think you'll find that the blue covered paperback which I have, and the hard back are exactly the same....you may not be able to get the knitting needles for some of the knitted items but two long darning needles will do.I used this idea very successfully for a long while until I bought some proper ones. I think the DH shop in warminster stocks these needles too. Cher I ordered a second hand book, the condition isn't relevant - in fact I'd like to think that the books I've bought new will one day be enjoyed by someone else :-) Getting needles is no problem at all - Spouse makes them :-) If you mean Warminster in Wilts, I went through there on Saturday but we didn't stop - I was on the back of son's big motorbike :-) I live in Yorkshire. What's the DH shop? Mary |
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Take the Westbury road out to Warminster, and as you approach the traffic
lights there is the old back road to Warminster off to your left, take that and as you eventually come back into the built up area and the 30zone, note the shape right hander bend, to go down into the town, take the turning (2nd) off of that bend to your left, up over a tiny incline across a mini roundabout, and it is just along there on your right, set back, used to be a green grocers at one time... if you get to the second mini roundabout with the army barracks off to your left and opposite you, then you've gone too far. C "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Y?" wrote in message .uk... I think you'll find that the blue covered paperback which I have, and the hard back are exactly the same....you may not be able to get the knitting needles for some of the knitted items but two long darning needles will do.I used this idea very successfully for a long while until I bought some proper ones. I think the DH shop in warminster stocks these needles too. Cher I ordered a second hand book, the condition isn't relevant - in fact I'd like to think that the books I've bought new will one day be enjoyed by someone else :-) Getting needles is no problem at all - Spouse makes them :-) If you mean Warminster in Wilts, I went through there on Saturday but we didn't stop - I was on the back of son's big motorbike :-) I live in Yorkshire. What's the DH shop? Mary |
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