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Short
Summary in English
My
homepage is like a play in six acts with an interact between acts four and
five. The homepage tells about the dollhouses that have been part of my life.
Act
1 tells about my first dollhouse that I got after WW II, a very poor,
wooden box, furnished with squares and cubes. This did not inspire me
to play with it, so a friend of my father's crafted a set of furniture
for it. However, I was not allowed to play with the furniture because
it was too delicate for my fingers.
The
furniture was kept and was later on part of my son's Lundbyhouse and is
now part of The Big House.
Act
2 tells about the huge dollhouse that my parents gave me in the early
50's. I was allowed to play with it at Christmas holydays only because
the "giants" took too much space in our dining room. Now, many years later in 2010 the two items moved to a toy-museum.
Act
3 tells about the Lundbyhouse (made in Sweden) that was given to my son
in which to put his Playmobil-family. Later on, I took it over with my
own dolls and furniture but I very quickly found out that it was too
small for all the nice things I wanted to put in. So I changed the
house's character into a shop where to buy antiques and fabrics. The
Lundby moved also to the museum in 2010.
Act
4 tells about The Big House that I built between 1995 and 1996. After a
topping-out-ceremony with the architect, an odd hand and building
owners (!), I decorated The Big House within the following years.
Guess, what happened 2010: The Big House moved to the museum too!
The
Interact (Zwischenspiel) tells about stitching carpets and dressing
"naked" dolls, (look at the girls and the boy 1. Akt, 2.
Akt......) which I thought would be an inspirational pause for me.
Act
5 tells about my project, the Café "At Betsy's" in the ground
floor and Betsy's flat above it. Building and decorating took me more
than three years. You can’t find the stairs, pergola with
it’s scrollwork, wintergarden, dormer window, some furniture and
a good deal of the windows in your catalogues. I planned them during
sleepless nights and so they were homemade by myself. It’s not
too difficult. My friends can attest to that because they were
“taught” by me to make windows one day in June, 2002.
Act 6 is currently under construction: a B&B is developing since 2008.
I
hope you can get along with my homepage and all the small and large galleries.
Don't
forget to write a short comment in my guestbook (Gästebuch).
In the guestbook, click on Ins Gästebuch eintragen to enter
your comments. At the bottom of your comments, Löschen will
erase and Eintragen will enter your comments. I would appreciate
them very much!
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