Category Archives: Miniatures

Seaview Fruit & Veggies–Sold!

Posted on May 25, 2020 by smallhousepress

No longer available.Thank you for checking in.   Due to a recent down-sizing and move, we are letting go the last of our miniatures at very low prices. This one was a class project we made in 1988. It has a … Continue reading →

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Garden Shed–Sold!

Posted on May 21, 2019 by smallhousepress

Original Noel & Pat Thomas Gardener’s Shed As of May 28, 2019, The Garden Shed has a new owner–thank you to all who responded. Please watch this site for future updates, sales and information. This is the second of two … Continue reading →

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Swan Song from Paris: La Fenêtre

Posted on November 4, 2017 by smallhousepress

  At 8:00 a.m., November 3, 2007, red-eyed and flight-addled, Noel and I were huddling with our roller bags around cafe cremes across rue Cler from our favorite Greek-French café from the previous trip—Ulysse en Gaulle—which had yet to open. … Continue reading →

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Is it time to find new homes for your miniatures?

Posted on November 4, 2017 by smallhousepress

  Before I file my final entry on our miniatures, I wanted to open up a discussion about what to do with your miniatures when you can no longer keep them. Over the years, many of you, or your relatives, … Continue reading →

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Au Petit: aka Artisan’s Cottage/Golden Lane, or, how we managed to stay married all these years

Posted on September 24, 2017 by smallhousepress

Eons ago–in the early 1980’s–a miniatures columnist wrote that Noel and I looked “slim in our jeans,” a term which still makes us laugh. We, indeed, lived in jeans, in our studio, building mini houses as fast as we could … Continue reading →

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The Aero II Travel Trailer–“You can go where you want with it”

Posted on June 25, 2017 by smallhousepress

Ever the car nut, and ever the headline writer, Noel came up with the line, “You can go where you want with it,” while conjuring the travel traveler. It would be, of all the buildings we made, his pet project. … Continue reading →

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Rooftop Studio, Part II–A little more parsley, please?

Posted on April 30, 2017 by smallhousepress

The rooftop studio was #59 of our miniature buildings and houses, completed in 2001-2 almost thirty years after #1. If we stick with the minis-as-meal-prep metaphor, all that time we wished we had a sous-chef—someone to build the basic structures to our … Continue reading →

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Recipe for a Rooftop Artist’s Studio

Posted on March 12, 2017 by smallhousepress

To make an artist’s studio, start in 1960 when you are 14. Into a large bowl pour one trip to New York City to see your art student/coffee house waitress older sister. Sprinkle in one bitter espresso brewed in her … Continue reading →

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An Ode to the Odd: The Castine Gallery

Posted on September 5, 2016 by smallhousepress

On almost any day in June of 1994, at about 8:00 a.m., if you were to head to downtown Castine from the Maine Maritime Academy–home to the IGMA’s annual Guild School mini camp—you might cut across Deadman’s Alley, turn down … Continue reading →

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Wrap Party: Curtain Call for the Davis Theater

Posted on April 23, 2016 by smallhousepress

Most of the year 2000, while the world recovered from Y2K madness, we spent in the studio wrapping up the lagging miniature theater project. It became a matter of, finally, shelving everything else to finish in time for the client’s … Continue reading →

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