Deana's Chesterfield Zoo

 Dollhouses

It would probably take me decades to  actually build all the houses I have, but it's fun to have the choice of what to build next. Besides, if I did build them all, I would need a bigger house to display them all. But it is fun and relaxing and I can vicariously live through my dolls in anything from a small cottage to a huge mansion - and not have to clean them, they have maids...

I have loved minis as long as I can remember. I keep finding things from my childhood as I organize my real house. I just never seemed to be able to get rid of my mini things and now I am glad I didn't.

'Real' looking dollhouses are wonderful, but my heart is really in fantasy houses. Like the underwater mermaid house, the fairy chapel, the cloud in the sky house, my Hansel and Gretal house and haunted houses just to name a few.

I also enjoy 'gifting' houses. It has to be a surprise though. Sometimes the houses are used ones - often houses that some parent thinks their little girl has outgrown. Ahh, if only they knew the house was most likely going to an adult whose mother gave away their house when they were a child.