English doll kits: Someone asked the other day for an English doll kit maker. My favorite is Sue Harrington, unfortunately I can't find a web site or address for her perhaps someone out there knows if she can be contacted on the internet?

Her snail mail is: Sue Harrington, 51 Old Fort Road, Shoreham Beach, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex BN43 5RL Tel 01273 464670. She has a catalogue and her dolls are lovely.

Col

Sue Harrington's Dolls: Sue Harrington's doll site is at www.katysuedolls.com

Christine

Dolls for dolls: I have a number of the ones by Carol Spence Sellner (a personal favorite) and some from other artisans. The page showing these is:
http://www.spminiatures.com/dollsfordolls.html

Carol

½ Scale Doll Molds: Ellen in the UK wanted to know who sells and ships molds there - and wants 1/2 scale - I'm sure House of Caron has some molds in that scale - their web site is: http://www.houseofcaron.com

Paulette

Punches: Besides Wal-Mart and Michael's, a minier suggested an office supply store or a teachers supply store.

Here are three Website addresses for punches given to me by a number of our miniers. They are worth taking a look at.
http://www.scrapbooksuperstore.com/

http://www.hankypankycrafts.com/home.htm

http://www.punchpalace.com/

Dolores

Working grandfather's clocks: As someone pointed out Orvin Fjare does make some beautiful grandfather's clocks which are quite pricey. I have one (not for sale) in my dollhouse which you can see at http://www.spminiatures.com/house/livingroom.html. There are working grandfather's clocks that sell for about $70 which I think are in Dee's catalog.

Carol

Glue syringe/Monoject: To view or purchase a Monoject glue syringe with a rubber stopper go to http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~smallife/Tools.html scroll down to Glues & Applicators and wait for the photo to load. There are tweezers on the page also. Sorry, no fancy shopping cart on this homemade site! You have to use e-mail, fax, carrier pigeon or the phone.

Pam & Pete Boorum

working grandfather clock: I found a web site for a craft store called Crafts, Etc. that has a working grandfather clock. They are temporarily out of stock, but maybe they will get some in soon. It sells for $24.99. The web page address is: http://catalog.craftsetc.com/viewProduct.cfm?item_id=378278. I just placed an order with them today on the telephone, and they were very nice to deal with. They have quite a few miniatures listed under the crafts section of their catalog. I hope this helps the person who was looking for the grandfather clock.

Terry T. in WV

Working Clocks: Someone was asking about working grandfather clocks. Try Small Time: http://www.small-time.com/

Colin Bird

working clocks: Both Dee's and Aztec have working grandfather clocks. They are usually in the $40 to $70 range and look very good. The working part is a quartz watch. I think one of them even has a working mantel clock. Contact your local mini store to get them. I keep them in stock all the time and think most other retailers probably do, too.

Dottie in Tucson

Architectural moulding: An artisan in the US who makes lovely architectural mouldings for Victorian and Louis XIV style rooms is Annette Lobell-Doran. She also does lots of gold leafing and painting of them. She now has a website, http://www.uniquelyvictorian.com/ and is a very nice lady to deal with. Her website has some beautiful roombox scenes on it using the mouldings - - do have a look. If you do contact her, do tell her that Wendy Smale referred you and says "Hello".

Wendy in Clinton, NJ

Lit candles on Christmas trees : way long years ago, I did one of these - a tree with lit candles. I used strings of 1 1/2 volt bulbs - the really tiny ones, and strung each one through some plastic white tubing (candle part) with a gold sequin on the bottom for a cup. Now, I don't recall how many bulbs to a string - and you don't need a lot of these for the lights to be very effective. Consult with a Cir-Kit catalog for instructions - they sell all kinds of bulbs and know how many to run on a string and what wattage transformer to use - ( you can run several strings of these small bulbs from a medium size transformer -as well as other fixtures. (just remember this is "series" lighting, and if one goes out they all are dark).

Phyl in Kentucky

Christmas "whirligig": Mel K. said his wife wanted "one of those wooden, candle powered, Bavarian, Christmas whirligigs.'" The article Wanna in El Paso was referring to is in Nutshell News, Dec. 1985, page 98, written by Dee Snyder It is called a "Weihnachtspyramide". Now let's hear everybody pronounce that one!!.

Ruth

Paper-Wrapped Wire: http://amsi-minilandscaping.com They have white and green cloth covered wire sold by the bundle. They have wonderful landscaping materials and are extremely helpful. They extended me a 30% discount since I have a miniature business. The man's name is Tony and his wife is Mary. They provide landscaping used for small scale miniatures in Hollywood. I searched for 2-1/2 weeks to find their site on the Web.

Jean

Cloth Covered Wire: I've had a small business making wedding cakes and I make the hand molded gumpaste (sugarpaste) flowers for my cakes. I use the wire that you are talking about. I order it from a wonderful place in Virginia called:

Beryl's Cake Decorating & Pastry Supplies
Tel: 703-256-6951 Fax: 703-750-3779
email: Beryls@beryls.com

Web page: http://www.beryls.com

They carry the wire in the smaller gauges 28, 30, 32. Also they carry petal powder colors we use on the sugar flowers-not sure if they will last, but I have some flowers on display that have been colored for 8 years and they still are bright and fresh. Also, in their catalog they have all kinds of texture makers, such as cobblestone, brick, basket weave, to name a few. She specializes in European roll fondant supplies for making really unique cakes a lot of which are decorated with scenes of mini items. A wealth of possibilities!

Ginny

Cleaning Plexiglass: There is a special cleaner for Plexiglass. Most Plexiglass places have it. I got mine from Iris Broyles at Buffalo Creek minis. Their web site is http://www.bcminiatures.com and email is bison7@bcminiatures.com I also got some great cleaning cloths from them.

Fannye in TX

printables site in French: here is a beautiful site for printables don't worry you don't need to speak French just click away. It does have printable windows and doors food stickers etc. etc... check it out it is fantastic http://users.skynet.be/sudene/imprimables.html.

Gisèle Nadeau

Dolls house shop in Edinburgh: I was just in Edinburgh last fall. There's a small but wonderful little shop there called the Edinburgh Doll's house shop. Web site: http://www.edinburghdollshouse.co.uk/. I found some great things there, including my mini Scotland souvenirs and an AGA stove.

Trish

Changing ISPs: A good place to start is "The List" at http://thelist.internet.com/. They have a pretty comprehensive data base of ISPs everywhere. You can search with your area code to find the ones that offer local access for your area. They have the basic info including cost and service particulars, plus links to the ISP's site for more info. The nationwide ISPs like Earthlink and others offer easy set up, similar to AOL.

Anne Gerdes

Miniature Hosting Site: I have noticed many comments from several of you seeking inexpensive or free hosting for your miniature web sites. I can not recommend The Miniature Net highly enough. The search engines used to list our sites are great. Any search I run on any site such as Lycos, Google, etc. brings my site up quickly and in the first page of listings. This is important if you want your items to be found. The Miniature Rings provided through this service are excellent. Down time is almost non existent. I also like the idea of miniature sites banding together in one area. I think this benefits all of us.

Becky Holliday

Mini quilting: Dover publications- http://www.doverpublications.com has a book by Janet Wickell called 'Easy to Make Dollhouse Quilts'. It includes quilting basics as well as a number of patterns. Mine was $3.95.

Martha Simpson