Welcome Sharon, Conny and Adriana

'Village Toys' - Town Square series

It's great to see the number of followers growing even if it is slowly.  Thank you to Sharon, Conny and Adriana for joining us here.

Sharon does the most wonderful work in the area of blog design (www.plumroselane.com).  I use her backgrounds for most if not all of my blogs, and as you might notice I have just purchased the personalized banner and signature for this blog too.  She is wonderful to do business with, so helpful and patient.  I love her backgrounds and am tempted to open more blogs just to use them lol!  Or maybe keep changing the backgrounds on the existing blogs would be more realistic.  So be warned Sharon, I'll be back for some banners and signatures to match some of your 'just backgrounds' lol!  Not only that but Sharon understands our passion and fascination for miniatures so that makes her pretty special as well.

Interior of 'Village Toys'

Conny is renovating a large Van Buren dollhouse and doing a very thorough job of it too.  She found it neglected and needing a home and has made many improvements to it.  She is also the author of a children's book 'One Eyed Jack', about a fish who is a modern day Sherlock Holmes.  If you visit her blog http://www.itsaminilife.blogspot.com.au you will see some great ideas for getting light into a dollshouse. You'll also find the link for buying her book if you look under the label 'My Books'.

Adriana (http://wwwminisdadrica.blogspot.br) builds the most gorgeous furniture in halfscale.  She doesn't put much text on her blog, which is a pity, but the pictures tell the story.  And there is a video showing her carving a cabriole leg from scratch in just 3 minutes or so.  Adriana is a very talented lady indeed!  Her furniture is of an excellent standard, beautifully finished.  I particularly love the chair in the latest post - it is so delicate and well balanced.  So often half scale furniture can look 'clumpy' but all of Adriana's furniture is perfectly proportioned.  


I do hope you all take time to have a look through some of this blog and that you enjoy visiting here as much as I enjoy visiting your blogs!  Please do come again and share my journey with this Fairfield.  And encourage me as I endeavour to finish it before the May fair here in Sydney.  In fact I want to finish it before Easter!  So that's even more of a challenge, isn't it?  And at the moment I'm fuzzling around not getting anywhere, so I'd appreciate a good kick or some encouragement - whichever :)