Tag Archives: travel

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

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

Posted in Buildings, Miniatures | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

The Care and Feeding of Dollhouse Makers…

or, Fueling the Muse Part I: Get a Job The Mini Muse started a hunger strike about ten years into our stint as miniaturists. For most of those years we lived, mind and body, immersed in work (even though work was … Continue reading

Posted in Memoir, Miniatures | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments