National Miniatures Trust

Dolls get their own TV sets!
CBBC Newsround - London,England,UK
A working miniature TV has been created for a whole new audience - characters who live in dolls' houses! The tellys have a teeny, tiny 5cm-wide screen.

It's not child's play when toys hit the auction block
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
Its open house sale, which starts tomorrow, showcases the entire contents of the closed Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum, a collection that officially goes ...

Now, miniscule TV sets for your doll-houses
DailyIndia.com - Jacksonville,FL,USA
London, Mar 31: Kids will now be able to install working television sets in the sitting rooms of their doll-houses, thanks to a miniature enthusiast.

Yemeni carpenter works heritage into wood art
Yemen Observer - Sana'a,Yemen
Among his most notable works are miniature models representing buildings constructed in traditional Yemeni style.

The magic of a movie helps struggling business put its house in order
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
The Dollhouse Factory in Lebanon Borough is one of just seven full-service dollhouse makers left in New Jersey -- all located north of Route 78. ...
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The joys of smallness
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
But don't call it a dollhouse. A dollhouse is for children. Weekes is a collector and architect of miniatures, and miniatures are a "art form," she said. ...

A whole world in his hands
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Schuh has traveled by train across the United States and Canada with Jane, his wife of 63 years, but most of his train excursions are of the miniature

Creating dollhouses unites the generations
The Winchester Star - Winchester,VA,USA
By Teresa Dunham The Stephens City couple bought a dollhouse kit for young Katie and Maddie Miller two years ago, and they work on it together every time ...

A VERY DIFFERENT DOLLHOUSE
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
UNLESS YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGHto have inherited a handmade dollhouse from an earlier time—perhaps one of those grand, exquisitely detailed masterpieces that a ..

Kewaskum students create WWII museum
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
Presentations included timelines, tri-folds, maps and miniatures. Examples included a D-Day miniature of Omaha Beach to exact scale, a Pearl Harbor ...

Retired architect builds miniature of Westminster Abbey
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
For more than two years, the former builder of schools and medical facilities has been fashioning a miniature model of London's Westminster Abbey. ...

A World in Miniature
Oneida Dispatch - Oneida,NY,USA
CANTON - Lewis County resident Bennie Arnold (1892 - 1974) had a life-long passion for miniatures. At age twelve, he carved a small wooden chair while ...

A City in Flux
Times Ledger - Astoria,NY,USA
It is "New York, New York, New York," a miniature version of the five boroughs and a new exhibit from the members of the Flux Factory art collective. ...

District opens GATE on Enrichment Day
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA
One by one, miniature fans installed on the dollhouse ceilings began to whir, as tiny lights made the houses glow. Brad Bachrach, a sixth-grader at Rice ...

Model lighthouse shines in museum
BBC News - UK
The miniature Bell Rock Lighthouse cost Angus Council £12000 at auction. It had been in the Stevenson family since 1811 and was originally a present from ...

Student Project Brings Joy To Sick Children

WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA
PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- Students from Andover College have donated a special dollhouse to children at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine ...

Miniature masterpieces will go on permanent display
The Journal News / Lohud.com - NY,USA
By MELANIE A. HUGHES ALLENTOWN, Pa. - As a child growing up in the 1930s, Clifford Wolf would soak up dinner-table conversations between his father and ...

History in miniature
Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro,PA,USA
I made the strips for the shingles with a table saw," he said, holding the miniature version of the building atop a hill at the rear of the Toll Gate House. ...

UW Libraries Acquires Collection of Miniature Books
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA
14, 2007 -- University of Wyoming Libraries recently acquired a substantial miniature book collection donated by the late Michael Canoso. ...

Doll hobby in decline? »»
The Independent Online - Brighton,Ontario,Canada
The modern day dollhouse traces its history directly back to the Sixteenth Century and the 'baby houses' of Europe. The houses were cabinet display cases ...

Rod Stewart goes public with a passion for model trains
Reuters UK - UK
Far from his hard-rocking, late-prowling early years on the road, Stewart, 62, has spent many nights tinkering with miniature buildings and other city ...

Doll-Housing Crisis Set To Worsen, Mean Older Brother Says
The Onion (satire) - New York,NY,USA
The nasty older sibling added that since Ken and Barbie never insured the dollhouse, they would have no recourse in the event of fire, flood, or stomping.

The Flying Scotsman
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Veteran rock star Rod Stewart turns out to be a great fan of model railways. He reportedly has a perfect scale model of New York City, complete with 26 miniature trains, more than 100 skyscrapers and one or two football pitches. ...

By WebUrbanist
Slinkachu is at it again, adding his innovative flair to the world of creative urban street art. These photographs, taken around town in London and even shown in galleries, are just a small portion of his “little people” collection. ...

Oshawa trying to sell Cullen miniature village
680 News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Just seven months after buying it the City of Oshawa is trying to unload the Cullen Miniature Village. The city has been under fire, accused of wasting ...

Waverly man creates tiny homes as hobby

Sayre Evening Times - Sayre,PA,USA
He has a cabinet full of miniature furniture, small hinges and door knobs and prescription bottles filled, not with pills, but homemade miniature bricks to ...

Dollhouse Festival: Raises money for abused kids
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
By Sharon Haddock PROVO — Last year, the Dollhouse Festival raised $47000 for the Children's Justice Center in Provo — money that goes directly toward ...

Doll collection finds temporary home in Los Rios
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
By SEAN EMERY SAN JUAN CAPISTRANOAlice O'Neill Avery's extensive dollhouse collection has a new home this month, with the Arley Leck House hosting the ...

Little houses, big dreams
Baltimore Sun - United States
Sara Douglas shows a miniature table she painted. Douglas is preparing for a display with her group at the Historical Society of Baltimore County. ...

Miniature Amusement Park
CBS 21 - Harrisburg,PA,USA
He made a miniature playground for Ellen Degenres, and she featured it on her show. Now he's working on a mini amusement park complete with a Ferris wheel. ...

Green-built dollhouses go on (news photo)
Lake Oswego Review - Lake Oswego,OR,USA
The Green-built Dollhouse Tour began in June and has had five stops before coming to West Linn, including Portland City Hall and Carnegie Art Center in ...

Lanett Cemetery Dollhouse Is Memorial To Little Girl
WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA
In Lanett, Alabama, a dollhouse sits in the middle of the city cemetery as a decades-old memorial. Nadine Earles was a small child when she died 74 years ...

Own A Miniature Killer Model
As we had blogged about before, CBS has partnered with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children to auction off one of the Miniature Killer models to raise money and awareness for their efforts. ...

Miniature Paper High Heels
By bryan
Some interesting shoe related paper arts from Carlos N. Molina, a self-taught paper sculptor and graphic designer. Originally from Puerto Rico and now in New York, Molina makes miniscule paper shoe sculptures out of origami paper - keep ...

The Elizabeth Langtree Miniature Museum Collection
Antiques and the Arts Online - Newtown,CT,USA
Don't miss the opportunity to own this important collection of miniatures, assembled with care over the course of 42 years by Elizabeth Langtree, ...

Farmer Makes Miniature Tian'anmen to Honor National Day
China Internet Information Center| - China
As China National Radio reports, the farmer artist, Zhu Jinghe, from Anguo, a county level city in Hebei, created the magnificent miniature wood artwork, ...

Miniature gardens
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
Miniature gardens

They're using their creativity and love of gardening to craft scenes in miniature container gardens. Their business, called "Elfin Gardens," originates from ...

Next stop, Wonderland for fanciful Salem artist
North Shore Sunday - Beverly,MA,USA
For the last month Shea has focused all her energy on creating a world within an antique wooden dollhouse set up on her dining room table. ...

Fairy gardens are big on imagination
Dallas Morning News - TX,USA
Full of fantasy and lore, the carefully cultivated miniature lands of enchantment are luring nature enthusiasts young and old. ...

Tourism and Gaming Developer remains upbeat about LV mini-theme park
In Business Las Vegas - Henderson,NV,USA
The European journalists were smiling when we walked past the miniature Eiffel Tower, and the Asian journalists were checking out the model of the Great ...

Brunei sultan wins court case over miniature Koran
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
SYDNEY, Australia -- The Sultan of Brunei Wednesday won a court battle in Australia over an alleged agreement to buy a 400-year-old, gold-lined miniature ...
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Craftsman scales down Oshkosh's famous clock
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USA
Stiller, 71, made a miniature model of the Apostles Clock, one of the Oshkosh Public Museum's most popular pieces. He will take the clock to Richard Kitz, ...

Xinhua - China 12 -- An art miniature of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests within the Temple of Heaven is being exhibited in Guangzhou, attracting visitors with the ...

Slifer house built in miniature form
Williamsport Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA
The dollhouse was constructed over a two-year period by Deon Lawrance Jaccard and her husband Phil of Virginia. Jaccard is the great-great-granddaughter of ...

In miniature
Fergus Falls Daily Journal - Fergus Falls,MN,USA
"People like Glen Melby (Dalton native and former county sheriff) really were happy to see that the buildings are preserved -- in miniature -- inside and out ...

Children learn joy of model railroads
Ocala Star-Banner - Ocala,FL,USA
Strictly speaking, the replica locomotives are confined to miniature tracks at Ocala's model railroad museum in Tuscawilla Park, but in reality their ...

City inks deal with Cullens
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Canada
The City of Oshawa will take possession of the Cullen Miniature Village sometime over the next month after a deal to purchase the 120 tiny homes, ...

Handle with CARE
Gulf Coast Newspapers - Baldwin County,AL,USA
By Barbara Grider There were smiles all around as members of the Doll House Miniature Group met at the Thames Senior Center to donate two little houses to ...

Tiny tomes on display
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
Before the introduction of mass-produced paperbacks, miniature books were prized for their portability, beauty, and craftsmanship. ...

Dolls, houses from another time
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
It is open Wednesday through Saturday from 1-4 pm It displays over 2000 items in five rooms including a kitchen, school room, lighted furnished dollhouse,

Dollhouse Diva Camp to be held at Hillcrest
West Milford Messenger - USA
West Milford -- West Milford Parks and Recreation will offer a Dollhouse Diva camp this summer for those interested in getting together and decorating doll ...

Charms of cozy neighborhood not hard to find
Seattle Times - United States
She's owned and operated Dolly's Dollhouse, which stocks all manner of miniatures, for 30 years. Vanessa Ontiveros shops with her grandmother, Elfie Monroe, ...

Las Vegas Resort Adds Americana-Themed Attraction to Its Project
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
WET Holdings, Inc., a multi-billion dollar family resort and entertainment destination, and America in Miniature, LLC, have signed a letter of intent to ...
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Helen Sandow to Shock the Crowd at NAME's 35th Annual Convention
Earthtimes.org - USA
While this event focuses on miniature enthusiasts who scale items to very exacting proportions at 1/12", souvenir artisan Helen Sandow is doing the exact ...

For some boatbuilders, it's a small, small world
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
He is one of many amateur boatbuilders in Maine who work in miniature. Model boatbuilding involves many of the same skills, attention to detail, ...

Labor of love
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
What other Paw Paw would spend seven full days from 8 in the morning until 7 at night in the humid, sticky confines of his garage building a dollhouse as a ...

US Consul-General honours miniature Nimitz maker

Hindu - Chennai,India
Proud possession: Miniature model maker Rustom Dastur (left) with US Consul-General David T. Hopper in Chennai on Wednesday. CHENNAI: US Consul-General in ...

What Is This? An Art Studio for Ants?
New York Magazine - NY, USA
... of famous artists' studios, up at Southampton's Parrish Art Museum through August 5, are every art nerd's -- and dollhouse enthusiast's -- happiest dream. ...

Cullen Gardens coming to Oshawa
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Canada
The miniature village includes over 180 buildings and accessories that reflect Canada's history. The Main Street includes miniature buildings reflecting ...

Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
McHenry just finished his 77th dollhouse and is busy selecting the color scheme for the next one. The walls of McHenry's workroom are covered with photos of ...

Shakespeare's miniature world of theater
Ontario Argus Observer - Ontario,OR,USA
Instead of humans roaming the stage in costume and character, dolls or puppets as tall as toothpicks would take the stage in Fife's miniature Globe theatre. ...

Virginia Samsel got the gallery's walls and floor from a dollhouse shop.

At Locker 50B, A Little Gallery Goes a Long Way
Washington Post - United States
Virginia Samsel got the gallery's walls and floor from a dollhouse shop. (Photos By Rachel Beckman -- The Washington Post) "A lot of people feel like they ...

History is happening at Barnstable's Daniel Davis House
Barnstable Patriot - Barnstable,MA,USA
When Regina Cross Jones of Hyannis was a young girl, she desperately wanted a dollhouse. Unfortunately it was during the Great Depression, when times were ...

New Tiny Teeple still standing
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
But a Plato Township couple's two-year-old miniature re-creation of the barn may just contain the detail needed to accurately preserve what made the ...

An Ideal Introduction to Paris
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
A second attraction, Miniature Paris, gives a bird's eye view of Paris with a 3-D interactive model of the city. Visitors can get oriented and plan what to ...

Ancient Shrine Found in Greece
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Archaeologists in central Greece have discovered thousands of miniature clay pots and statuettes in the ruins of an ancient sanctuary ...

Miniature Books: 4000 Years of Tiny Treasures
CCTV - Beijing,China
Miniature book collector Julian Edison said, "Human beings have always been fascinated by extremes and also by firsts, the tallest mountain, ...

Miniatures are on display at library
Redding Pilot - Georgetown,CT,USA
The display includes miniature portraits and dollhouse-like, whimsical models, and features the craftsmanship of many local artists. ...

Noel Barrett to host 1000-lot toy auction over Father's Day weekend
News-antique.com (press release) - Garden City,NY,USA
With the auction’s focus being on architecture, a selection of dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures – fortuitously purchased at a storage-locker sale – is a ...

It's a small but fascinating world
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
It's being hailed as a step forward for a miniature-making club - from a few stalls at Chatuchak market to Phuket's new upscale mall - as well as a giant ...

Chinese Architecture in Miniature
Taiwan Review - Taipei,Taiwan
For more than two decades, Peng Kuan-lin has been trying to rekindle part of this architectural heritage in miniature.

Miniature White House on display at Bush library
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA
"Ford wanted people to know it's their house," Zweifel said Tuesday, as he stood next to the miniature replica his family designed and constructed of the White House ...

Miniature chair with £1m price tag

This is London - London,England,UK
Indeed, this miniature Faberge chair has fetched £1.14million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. That makes it worth more than 3000 times its weight in gold.

Welcome to the dollhouse
The Landmark - Holden,MA,USA
by Faith Mayer fmayer@holdenlandmark.com. Myra Snyder of Paxton doesn't argue about the little things. She makes them. Dollhouses that is, lots and lots of ...