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What Happens in Las Vegas

Posted on March 7, 2011 by smallhousepress

We celebrated the completion of The Seaview with a party at home, and the next morning packed it into the trusty camper for the trip to California. I can’t remember if it was Santa Rosa, Santa Monica, or Anaheim, but … Continue reading →

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Fish Tales, Perry Mason & Bug Juice–the Summer of ’76

Posted on February 6, 2011 by smallhousepress

The summer of 1976 saw the Seaview walls rise, rooms begin to take shape. To pay the rent, Noel baited hooks for a charter boat skipper. I still had my noontime radio program, and tried to grow corn in a … Continue reading →

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Life on the Edge

Posted on January 14, 2011 by smallhousepress

When Noel returned from San Francisco without money or new orders, there was no lack of work to do to keep us afloat. When we weren’t building dollhouses or working our day jobs, we were learning to hunt, gather, barter … Continue reading →

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A Wing and a Prayer

Posted on January 5, 2011 by smallhousepress

In 1974, while Noel was helping the local doctor build his dream boat, and I was counting bolts at the hardware store, we somehow managed to produce four dollhouses. We were working fools, eating clams we dug on the nearby … Continue reading →

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Who we are, and yes, it’s a miniature

Posted on December 29, 2010 by smallhousepress

My husband Noel and I have been building aged miniature houses–Victorians, Bungalows, commercial buildings and roadside restaurants–for collectors and museums since 1974. At that time we quit our careers in advertising, and left the city for a simpler life on … Continue reading →

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