Miniature

One of the activities over the weekend – and certainly not one that I’d normally be expected to go to – was that we went to the Kensington Dolls House exhibition. Not really my cup o’ tea, but Herself wanted to go, and I thought it might be interesting.

And I have to say, it was kind of fun. I’ve never been into this kind of stuff, and honestly can’t see that I ever would be – but even so, some of the stuff on display was pretty fantastic. The people who make a lot of the miniature stuff are definitely odd, to say the least. In fact, some of them are utterly crackers – in particular the ones who do tapestry carpets and wall-hangings. And for some reason doll-makers themselves are invariably creepy as fuck. I don’t know why, but they are.

Still, there is something about a lot of the stuff – working clocks at 1:12 or 1:24 scale. Replicas of designer furniture. Perfect 1:12 scale handmade glassware. It’s things like that where I can see the appeal in such a hobby, even though I don’t personally posess that obsessive trait for collection and perfection, regardless of what’s being collected.

All in all, it was certainly an interesting afternoon. And with luck I might even be able to drum up some website business out of it too…