York Dolls House Fair

A silver dolls house sized Sony Vaio laptop with the lid open showing a WIndows screen and keyboard.

Today we visited the dolls house fair in York, at the race course.
It is a regular event in June and November and we try to visit if we can. It is a good source for miniature and dolls house accessories, and the cost sometimes makes it more economical to buy then to make many things.

This visit was no different, though there were not as many stalls this time. However, I still managed to buy a few things to help out with my miniature projects.

Here’s what I bought:

I have been trying to 3D print and make a realistic toilet for Daisy’s house but I found this. The cistern has snapped off, so it was cheap, but it can easily be glued back on. The seat hinge pin needs a bit of finessing to improve the look.

A white ceramic dolls house toilet with a white seat and lid (lifted up). It is a pretty good representation of a realistic toilet at 1:12 scale.

One of the stall holders was retiring and selling off stock cheaply. I picked up some brass door and cabinet knobs, kitchen and outdoor taps, a number 6 for a front door, and some ornamental display letters for the mantle piece.

A collection of small dolls house accessories. There is a small bag with the letters L, V, in white, and O, E, in red, 4 brass drawer knobs, 4 brass door handles, 2 kitchen taps, 2 garden taps, and a brass number 6 for a house door.

Daisy would need a laptop for the amount of local history research she is doing so I bought this for her. An early Sony Vaio running Windows.

A silver dolls house sized Sony Vaio laptop with the lid open showing a WIndows screen and keyboard.

As a focal point for Daisy’s living room I decided this fire place would work. It wouldn’t be a real fire but would be fine to have an ornamental display of flowers in it, once I have removed the decorative logs.

A dolls house fire place. It has a mid brown wooden surround with a black hearth and fire back. There are three pretend logs on the hearth.

A ceramic chamber pot would be just the right size for holding flowers in a fireplace.

Two dolls house ceramic chamber pots, one has a blue decoration, the other has pink flowers.

And a selection of roses would look lovely there.

Three bunches of dolls house roses. one orange, one yellow, and one in a variegated cream and peach.

I also picked up a selection of essentials, that are not so easy to make. The milk carton and toilet duck are really good, and the toilet roll is well printed.

A selection of dolls house accessories: a plastic carton of milk, a green toilet duck, a packet of toilet paper, a selection of toothbrushes (two in a wal holder), a tube of toothpaste, and some plastics shaped dowels that culd be painted as ointment or toiletry bottles.

Not sure why I needed these, but they are solid brass functioning castors!

A set of four dolls house brass wheeled castors.

I think these mirrors could work well in Daisy’s bedroom, living room, and bathroom respectively.

Three dolls house mirrors, one with a dark wood frame, one with a sparkly, glitter frame, and one small plain one with radiused corners.

This was cheap, and will save me a lot of work making all the books that Daisy will be reading. The vases and map can be removed as they are not really needed where they are.

A dolls house cabinet in a medium brown. The bottom half has two doors and a drawer, the upper section is two glazed doors behind which are shelves stuffed with books. There is a rolled map on teh top of the lower section, and at the very top there is a red book, a ceramic vase, adn a metal container.

This three legged desk was in the ‘free to take’ box at the Breast Cancer charity stall. Harriet can repair it.

A dolls house writing desk painted in upcycled cream chalk paint. It has a wide drawer and a raied section at the back with letter slots and a shelf. It has two legs on the right side. The left side has the legs broken off, only one is still there .

We also got these decorative hole punches from the charity stall. The holly will make lots of leaves, and the fern will be really useful to make a lot of scrubby plants growing on the verge opposite Daisy’s house.

Three decorative hole punches, a small one that punches three tiny holly leaves, a medium one that punches a decorative roundle, a large one that punches a large fern leaf shape.

 

So that was it for this visit. A load of stuff to help me make some progress on Daisy’s End Terrace House so that she can finally move in. Still lots to do so it won’t happen too soon though.