tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post5909375409898857234..comments2024-03-28T08:09:58.329+00:00Comments on Cestina's dolls houses: How it all beganCestinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-39219620979990221872012-07-15T17:47:47.214+01:002012-07-15T17:47:47.214+01:00Love the look of this! Looking forward to it all! ...Love the look of this! Looking forward to it all! Kathryn BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-85196016475745400562012-07-10T14:18:58.514+01:002012-07-10T14:18:58.514+01:00I loved the blog... keep it comingI loved the blog... keep it comingAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345910166663285805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-22363081116516381272012-07-01T23:41:51.702+01:002012-07-01T23:41:51.702+01:00I read this a couple of days ago at work, but coul...I read this a couple of days ago at work, but couldn't comment... I love the pictures of your dolls' houses; they are so gorgeous!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-12849614785139439292012-06-27T10:28:57.880+01:002012-06-27T10:28:57.880+01:00Nice to hear you are both looking forward to the j...Nice to hear you are both looking forward to the journey - so am I!<br /><br />Ah yes, the need for the scale to be correct - good to see it in someone so young :-) It is sadly lacking in many dolls houses, particularly the antique ones. I may discourse on this in a later post.....<br /><br />I love the picture of the tiny (possibly only imaginary) people leaping into the air to turn the lights on and off.....<br /><br />I wonder if yours was a Triang house - they usually came with garages. I think it would be quite unusual for a home-made house to have a garage. There's a tiny bit of a Triang just visible on the left of the photo of the collection. It's cream but yours might have been repapered.Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-4797873857030856282012-06-27T08:53:38.757+01:002012-06-27T08:53:38.757+01:00I had a dolls house...and I have no idea what happ...I had a dolls house...and I have no idea what happened to it. I don't know how old I was when I got it - I'm pretty sure it wasn't new - was it from a friend/colleague of my father's? The outside walls were covered in brick-effect paper, which I found very pleasing and it had a garage with green doors which secured with a little hook. It had electric light and wallpaper. My great sorrow was the light switch (just one, in the hall) which, although not large in the grand scheme of things, was All Wrong in the house - the inhabitants would have had to hurl themselves up and grasp it with both hands, using their weight to pull it down in order to illuminate their home. Another matter of some grievance (in thought only - I was not a Spoiled Child) was the floor covering. In those days (1950s/early 60s) tiny samples of carpet were available from floor-covering emporia. My father obatined several of these to carpet my house throughout. So kindly meant but So Wrong - too thick, for a start and didn't fit, so they skidded around and the inhabitants were prone to falling off the carpet in a most tragic fashion. I don't remember much about the people - perhaps they were only imaginary as I have no recall of figures small enough...I too have a love of things miniature and have pften pondered the psychological significance...Looking forward to episode 2. AMSAndrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2825557015623591306.post-47550639794991108842012-06-26T22:06:15.464+01:002012-06-26T22:06:15.464+01:00I'll look forward to following this adventure....I'll look forward to following this adventure. I adored my dolls house, but my mother decided I was too old for it and gave it away without asking me....so like you, I made sure my daughter had one, which is safe here till she has a daughter!Lucy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850436128823815712noreply@blogger.com