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I'm not addicted to miniatures, miniatures are addicted to me.

1/28/2017

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 How do you think miniatures become an addiction?  Where does it start might I ask?

Maybe we're born with it.  Maybe it gets imprinted like a baby duck to the first thing it sees. So maybe we saw something tiny, were enthralled and sought out more minuscule things. Could it be that toys are in a way miniatures anyway and we just keep that fascination forever? I guess the question really is "what makes me so different?".  Because my friends and most people I meet think I'm weird. I bet you get that too. (mini lovers reading this, that is)

See this photo? This is the kind of thing that set me off on a never ending obsession with anything tiny and perfect. Even though looking at this I do see not-perfect.  This tiny tea set is like many I have owned in my childhood. Many because I kept losing pieces and started crying. My mother used to bring me small toys like this because she had to go back to work when I was 4 and felt guilty.  I got other stuff too like crayons and jump ropes and jacks (remember those???). But the tiny tea sets became a fixation. And no one cared about choking hazards.
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 I just now took a tour around Google and by surprise found this:
Which I also owned. More crazy making miniature stuff to fuel my diminutive desires. Well, the desire was NOT small.
(And oh, look, the apple set was made by Shackman. A company that also made scale minis for the dollhouse - Small world, pun not intended)
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Meet my newest desire.
(By Faberge. Property of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. But does she really need it? I think not.)
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So tell me. What possesses or obsesses you?
4 Comments
debbie mcgrath
2/28/2017 12:04:34 am

I totally agree, I saw a piece of miniature glass I liked, so I brought it, I now have a room box full of glass, on top of that I brought an old printers tray to hold some minis I liked and wanted to keep and somehow I now have 2 printer trays full of miniatures, they seem attracted to me, maybe there is a support group for this addiction, but then again I do not want to be cured,
keep collecting x

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Trish link
4/1/2017 04:18:14 pm

Yeah, as an adult I bought a few miniature at a flea market. So then I had to buy a print setters tray. Just like you. And I thought well, I'll just fill this up and that will be that.
NOT.

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ClAire DeVore
3/25/2017 12:45:50 pm

I was always keen but when I was 7 and 8 we lived in the Kalahari desert with the!Kung San "bushmen" it was a 3 day drive to a tiny town. Our toys had to be modest but even more, every little hole in the wall, as we traveled around the world, carried dollhouses dishes and Miniature food. I brought it all back.
When I left for college, with purple tinted glasses, my rookies were surprised that I had several house of miniatures kits with me. Lol

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T
4/1/2017 04:19:18 pm

Sounds exciting and fun, finding miniature everywhere you went. All exotic not less.

Welcome to the club.

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