I did love dollhouses as a child too, and I guess I just never stopped loving them. But like most kids I stopped playing with them and put them away when I was "too big" for them..
Sometimes I regret I didn't take up my hobby of making miniatures sooner, but I was "too cool" for dollhouses and miniatures until I was around 18 years old and thought I could love what ever I wanted. So I bought a
lot of new dollhouses =) Mostly Lundby scale, I had no clue there were different scales and that most houses in the world were bigger than our Swedish Lundby. And I started making more miniatures for myself and got a 1:12 scaled house. I did start to make miniatures for others and sold a little online before I realized I could make things for myself too, even do I wasn't over 60 years old ;) ( I thought you had to be around that age to collect dollhouses.... ;) ) I'm glad I've found so many, both collectors and miniature makers through this blog and Facebook.
Lets have a look at my first Lundby dollhouse (1:18 scale) =) I got this house for my 3 year old birthday (I think). I loved it and was very careful with it. And mum said I forbid my 2 years younger brother from moving things around in the house. My need for control started early....
This is me, seeing my new house for the first time. My mum redecorated it for me and put up a new wall and wallpaper and floors. I loved it.
And my daughter playing with the same house at my mum's place. We have the dollhouse at my mum's house so far, that way she can play a little with it now and then. I was a bit afraid she would ruin it.. but she is quite careful =) I have only given her some of the furniture I had in it, she will get more of them later. She's just 2,5 years old, she got a head start from me, that had to wait another 6 months to get it.. ;)
My daughter has these bend-me-dolls, I had a mother and a son and my brother had a father and daughter. Our dolls are in a box somewhere, these are "new" ones.
When she saw me packing a
purple coat for
Jennifer she was very sad she could not have it, so I gave her this blue one that I also made, and she is very happy with it. The doll in the middle is a baby (well it's suppose to be a mother in an older version of these dolls, but we call it baby) That way my daughter have our whole family in miniature =)
And I showed her
wooden furniture before, and I hope to give her more of my old Lundby furniture when she gets a little older.
I also wanted to show another of my childhood houses that I loved. This is a smaller scaled house. I have never heard of Pin y Pon and don't know who the manufactor are, but I still love this house and haven't showed it to my daughter yet... I just googled it and saw
lots of pictures and finally got tho see how the house looked originally, with one more wall than I have. I can't remember I ever had that wall, I think it was uncompleat when I got it.
La Casa grande Pin y Pon
I always thought this house was really cool! =) Some parts are missing, they were even missing back in the old days when I played with it. Neither mum or me remembers when I got it, but it was when I was a kid.
There is missing one wall, and the doors upstairs have fallen off. You can shut the house by spinning the walls.
I don't know which one is which, if this is Pin or Pon =) I have two dolls, a girl and a boy, I think they look very cute =) Unfortunately her hair is broken, but I glued it in place again =)
You can spin the rooms, here is the bathroom, just spin and you get a new room =)
There are this very cool details like this ironboard, that could be down, to iron on, or up, as a mirror.
The last spin-able room, the kitchen.
The livingroom, with a moveable wall.
Bedroom upstairs. A bed, or if you flip it, a mirror =)
The doors unfortunately broke and fell off when I was a kid, but I still have them.
Pin and Pon
The outside, with flowers and the lamp post, which I really like =)
Hopefully I will be able to trust my daughter with these houses soon =)
Take care
Hannah
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