Butterfly Cottage and the Young Ladies

 Hello Everyone,

How are you all? Hope you all had a great weekend. As you might all have noticed new dolls are being added to my dolls house collection. Today I will be sharing with you the lovely ladies that will be living in the beautiful Butterfly Cottage. 

The tiny cottage has two large rooms and in the entrance you will find little Pippa and Fay.

Pippa is helping Fay baking pies and goodies. 

Fay is happy baking  and keeping busy. She has fitted so well in the scene. 

On the first floor  in the sleeping quarters you will find the beautiful Sadie. She is very pretty. 

The beautiful dolls have been made by my dearest friend and doll maker Beverely Senatore. 

I hope you like the new additions to Butterfly Cottage.  make sure to keep tuned for the next updates on the Cotton Tail Cottage.

Take Care and See You Soon. 

Hugs,

Rebecca xxx

Two Dolls Houses featured in a Published Book

Hello everyone,

How are you all? Sorry for not posting any sooner but my family and I were on vacation.We went to to the lovely island of Sicily. It  was nice, hot and sunny. We have visited some beautiful places.  I just wanted to say a quick hello before I get myself busy once again with my dolls houses and miniatures. There will be lots of new miniatures coming up soon and I have quite a list of new miniature readable books being prepared. I have finished all of the stories of Raggedy Ann and there are 12 books in all.  You can all find them in My Miniature World Shop at etsy  

Just a day before we left for Sicily the New Book by author Moi Ali arrived which is called Dolls' Houses: A History and Collector's Guide. It had the perfect timing so I took it with me and read it through my holiday.

It is really interesting and there are so many wonderful dolls houses to see. Moi Ali captured most of the Vintage Dolls houses and quite some antiques. The book contains a brief history of Dolls' Houses and Miniatures, Principal Dolls' House manufactures, Starting or Extending a Collection, Protecting, Displaying and Renovating your Collection and Where to See Miniatures.

Moi Ali has made quite a research and there are quite a few who contributed to the book. I am very proud to say that I am one of them.

Yes I am proud that two dolls houses from my collection have been featured in this book which are Butterfly Cottage and Tudor Manor. As most of my dolls houses are from the Dolls House Emporium here is the section.

I have had Butterfly Cottage for over 5 years now. It was a Surprise Christmas Present from my husband. A very rare dolls house by the Dolls House Emporium. It never came in kit form as it is made from resin which was hand made and hand painted.

Here are some pictures of it.

Also my crown jewel the Tudor Manor. I am very very lucky to have this dolls house. As you might know my Tudor Manor was one of the first prototype Adam Purser had built. It was built in 1979 and it was one of the first 2 dolls house designs that the Dolls House Emporium had. At that time The Dolls House Emporium had a different name which was Tudor Models. My Tudor Manor was built by Adam Purser and decorated by Jackie Lee founders of the Dolls House Emporium. I am really pleased that last month I have completed decorating it. 

  

The Chimney also was hand built by Adam purser and is numbered and marked T M for Tudor Models.

And here it is in it's full glory

Moi Ali has made a fantastic job of the whole book. I wish her all the success as she really deserves it. So this is all for today. Hopefully I will be posting by the end of the week. I really hope to work some more on the renovation of the Summer House. So keep tuned for more.

Take Care and see you soon.

Hugs,

Rebecca xxxx

Butterfly Cottage

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Here in Malta summer is in the air and it's getting warmer and warmer. I guess that's the fun of it!

Today I will be sharing with you one of my latest prestigious conquests of my Miniature World, Butterfly Cottage. This lovely cottage is one of the Dolls House Emporium discontinued houses which probably you never saw or came across. It was only on the market for one year in 2001. It comes ready built, decorated, hand painted and hand crafted. It is made out of resin. Even the lovely roof and foliage are made out of resin.  

Butterfly Cottage

I had found this treasure on an auction and Gilbert my husband gave it to me as a Christmas present last year. It was pre-owned but in a perfect condition. I can't believe that it came to Malta in one piece. I consider myself very lucky to own it, being very rare to find and I practically took it for a very ridiculous price. I am pretty sure the seller didn't have an idea what she was throwing away for a very small price.

Inside Butterfly Cottage

Well as I only had to decorate it, I wanted to make something totally different from my other houses so I went for a shabby chic style which suited the cottage well.  I have changed the wall paper and gave it a bit of life by adding some border and tiles. I have made all it's curtains and added battery lights as there was no other way to add lighting being made out of resin. Honestly I prefer wiring the lights, but I am quite please with these battery lights as they are very luminous and easy to put. 

The kitchen-net was another headache but thanks to Elf once again I have managed to do something suitable for this lovely cottage. Obviously I have made it to suit it with pink flowers and a buttler's sink.  

The Kitchen area

The Kitchen

I have found some nice distressed shabby chic furniture for both the living area and the bedroom. I have used two wire arm chairs for the living area and added some cushions that I made matching the curtains. I also added a woolen rug that I made. Probably I will still be adding some more accessories knowing me but so far I'm quite happy with. 

Well now that I have complete it I can focus a bit more on one of my unfinished projects that I would love to finish before the baby comes. Here are more photos for you of Butterfly Cottage. I hope you like it.

Keep tuned.

Take Care and have a nice weekend.

Regards,

Rebecca xxx

The upper floor the Bedroom

Outside the main door with the lovely flowers.

The living area with the wire decorated arm chairs

The whole living room

The kitchen area