Monday, August 31, 2009

6 Steps To Finding Your Ideal Miniature Dollhouse Furniture

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Article Title: 6 Steps To Finding Your Ideal Miniature Dollhouse Furniture
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Category: Collecting, Hobbies
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Doll house accessories are available in a extensive variety of choices. Everything from food, drinks to musical instruments can be discovered. There are even pet supplies! Selecting add-ons for your doll house can signify anything from holiday unique decorations, to clocks and other wall ornaments. Selecting the right doll house accessories can be an big task, but with a couple of basic steps, it can also be a entertaining project for the entire family.

(1) Choosing The Overall Doll house Subject

Tallying with the theme or age of the doll house is an all important consideration when buying doll house accessories. A electronic digital clock and camera in a Victorian era doll house would be gravely mismatched. Such doll house accessories are more adept to a more contemporary themed doll house. An Asian themed doll house would be better serviced with chopsticks or a wok as compared to forks, spoons and a cast iron frying pan.

(2) Picking Out The Furniture Scale

Positioning a one sixth scale bbq grille outside of a one-twelth ratioed doll house is another impractical option. The grille will be appear much bigger as compared to the occupiers of your doll house! Equating the scale of the doll house accessories to the ratio of the doll house is crucial. Buying doll house accessories which will harmonize with the proper room of the doll house is essential. A bedcover that's too small is just as destructive to the interior decoration of the bedroom as having a dinner set that comes complete with a turkey, in the area where the cupboard should be.

(3) Do Your Research

When getting doll house accessories, you need to look at the essentials of life in that age. Does your modern era doll house have a television, or an electrical gadget such as kettle or microwave? Do you need bedsheets, curtains or even a carpet?

(4) Keeping To Your Entire Theme

Also check out for hollows in the interior decoration of each room in the house. Do you've a clock somewhere in the mansion? Is there a wall up the living room which appears especially blank? Perhaps a pic, or portrait would be excellent there. Do the occupiers of the household sit at the dining table? They might need a drink or some food. The perfect doll house add-on makes the setting in the house more realistic and credible.

(5) Getting The Most Suitable Doll House Accessories

When browsing for doll house accessories, it's always a effective idea to have the proportions of the house with you, together with a picture. Such resources will not only see to it that the accessories you purchase will accommodate the house, but will also help you to keep up with the entire theme you're going for.

(6) Family Engagement During The Procurement Process

Another consideration when patronising for doll house accessories is to involve the whole family. Get the kids out and have a day of fun with them scouring for gems and you may just find the wonderful clock on the darkest corner of the store where you tend to overlook. After all, kids are renowned for having the wildest imagination, isn't it?

James writes for a fee. For more info on miniature dollhouse furniture, check out http://www.miniaturedollhousefurnitures.com
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Teddy Bear Is Everyone's Best Friend

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To this day, the question of who actually created the first teddy bear is still debated. Regardless of who was first, the teddy bear became a national obsession. In 1903, Steiff produced 12,000 bears. Teddy manufacturers blossomed. Textbook writer Seymour Eaton, under the pseudonym Paul Piper, wrote a rollicking poem called "The Roosevelt Bears" that appeared each week in newspapers around the country and followed the antics of "Teddy-B and Teddy-G.

Eaton also published a series of books about the bears. "Teddy bears are all the rage," read an ad in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck catalog. Bears of all kinds--plaid bears, fuzzy bears, Viking bears--perch on every available surface. How about a bear with a hood with curlers on it and fuzzy slippers and a robe? It's there too.

And today Vermont Teddy Bears Most of Vermont Teddy's customers are men sending Bear-Grams. Customized Bear-Grams can cost up to $300 apiece. Although the company specializes in lightheartedness--it ships each bear in a container complete with airholes and a delicious candy treat, in case the bear gets hungry on the trip--it's a full-size business.

Real bears have to contend with hunters and habitat loss, but there's no sign teddy bears will ever be endangered. If you look through popular magazines, there's always an ad for some limited edition, and you go into a gift shop and there are teddy bear aprons and teddy bear mugs and teddy bear this and teddy bear that.

The Teddy Bear Museum in Naples, Florida--one of the first such museums in America--displays about five thousand teddies from all over the world. Some are holding their own teddy bears; others dress in bear jewelry and carry bear handbags. An enchanting experience for children of any age, this distinctive museum showcases bears in all shapes and sizes including one-of-a-kind teddy bears, limited editions, antique bears, and unique moving displays.

In 1997, the Huis Ten Bosch resort in Nagasaki, Japan, unveiled the Teddy Bear Kingdom--a 1,300-square-foot reproduction of a medieval stronghold with fifteen hundred classic and new bears. On April 24, 2001, J.S. International chairman Jesse Kim, who remunerated $193,477 for a one-of-a-kind existing Steiff bear at a charity auction, opened the JeJu Teddy Bear Museum in Korea. The Jeju Teddy Bear Museum opened specially for the European collectors and is more exhilarating than ever with special "Teddy Bear" entertainment.

Since the late 1970s, a generation of "bear artists" has taken tired old teddy to a new level. Art bears are nearly always hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind or limited-edition pieces. They're as diverse and creative as the artists themselves--huggable, droopy-limbed bears, minutely detailed mohair miniatures no bigger than thimbles, bears dressed as hobos, angel bears, clown bears, biblical bears, inquiring bears, shy bears, and bears of every personality, shape and expression.

How has a solitary toy escaped the limitations of age, gender, nationality, culture and faith for over a hundred years? What makes people adhere to their teddy bears, loved to within an inch of their fuzz, for lifetimes? The teddy bear began as a child's plaything, something to soothe and please the young. That bear became a confidante, our best friend, the buddy who kept us secure and protected during the tribulations of youth.

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Comic Book Software: The Collectors Lifesaver

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Many comic book software programs have found their way into the hearts of collectors who have struggled for years to find ways to keep their collections organized. Many of these collectors have hundreds, even thousands of issues that are just about impossible to keep track of without these new programs to make everything easier. It can be a daunting task to keep track of every issue that a person owns, especially if they have been purchasing issues for years without keeping any kind of record of them. However, there is hope with some of the best comic book software programs out on the market now.

The single most useful feature of these programs is that they create a visual database of the issues that a person has and they are able to organize the inventory into an easily searchable database. Instead of pulling out 648 issues of books in trying to find one particular issue, a program will be able to help categorize everything to make locating specific ones simple. Every one is categorized in a systematic way, and the programs that are used can do everything almost instantly.

Monitoring and organizing comic books with software is essential to keep collections in tip top shape. Some of the programs can be found on the Internet and can be downloaded free of charge. These freebies will get the job done but will not be as detailed or as elaborate with their information or their formats as others are that need to be paid for. There are programs that can be purchased on the Internet, and retail stores of all kinds also carry them at different locations. There is a wide variety of different ones that are available, and the prices vary quite a bit as well depending on how big your collection is, how much information you want to keep track of, and how elaborate or fancy you want your database to be. While it is possible to even use basic office programs like excel to keep track of collections, they do not offer the information that the real programs often do, and they just are not as much fun!

Some programs that are free or inexpensive are nothing more than lists and forms that the collector can fill out, but others can bring up issue dates, photos of the covers, the value of the issue, and much more information automatically for the user. It is for these reasons that many collectors prefer to purchase the more in depth comic book software for their collections.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Top London Art Gallery Purchasing Tips

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London is home to nearly four hundred art galleries, and each London art gallery has its own aesthetic array of sculptures, paintings, photographs and installations. For the avid art collector, visiting these galleries is a full time business, but for someone who just wants to buy a piece of art for the home the selection could be overwhelming. Whether you are looking to buy art as an investment or just for pleasure, this guide aims to make the process of purchasing works from a London art gallery as easy as possible.

Before you set off, make sure that you've measured the space and that you have set yourself a budget that you can stick to. It is all too easy to fall for a sculpture or painting that is both out of budget and too big for the space you have. Also consider how you plan to get the artwork into the space. It is all well and good having a wall the size of a cinema screen to fill, but it is essential to consider the access to the wall. Some people arrange for windows to be entirely removed to get artwork into a room.

It is essential to remember that all the works on display at a London art gallery will be professionally displayed by a curator. This means that each item will be lit and hung to enhance its appeal and will be part of an exhibition that gives it context. A painting or sculpture viewed in such a setting will look vastly different to the same piece of art in your own living room, kitchen or dining room. Some galleries allow potential customers to borrow paintings prior to purchase for a short time so it can be viewed in the context of the home.

If this is not possible, take full advantage of the gallery owner or the curator's knowledge. Ask about lighting and hanging and discuss the right way to present the piece to best effect. If possible take in a photograph of the area where you want to hang or place the artwork, this will allow the curator to understand your style preferences and they may well be able to recommend pieces of art that you would not have ordinarily considered or piece that is not on display.

Ultimately, ensure you visit as many galleries as possible before making a purchase, and don't feel pressured to buy if you can't find your perfect piece the first time round. You will have to look at what you buy every day, so it is essential that is exactly what you want.

Dom Donaldson is an art expert.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Collecting And Protecting Your Holiday Keepsakes And Decorations

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Not only in our country, but in countries all around the world there are holidays that are celebrated somewhere almost everyday. We tend to take out holiday celebrations very seriously, some more so than others. There are some special days that we wait for all year long and the planning and preparation for those special occasions can begin long before the big day is even near.

Usually those holidays are Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, Thanksgiving and others that might not be celebrated quite as much as these. Halloween, which is a holiday that is a little confusing to some, is none the less a big day for kids and adults. Parents sometimes go all out decorating the home and yard with ghoulish creatures like ghosts, witches, spiders ans bats. It is the first big holiday in the fall and is followed up by other big events through out the winter and into spring.

For those that thoroughly enjoy being in the holiday spirit, no matter what is being celebrated, they can tie up a lot of money in decorations of all kinds. Some might be paper, plastic, or rubber blow ups. Others can be electrical and some are made from glass or metal. No matter what type of material your decorations are made of you want o try and use them as many times as possible.

The key to saving money on many decorations is to buy them right after that particular holiday is over. Many stores will have them marked down to almost nothing. Other holiday decoration collectors might visit specialty stores that are open all year round and sell ornaments of all kinds. You might end up investing a little more money this way, but you might also be purchasing a better quality item that can not only be used for many years, but passed down from generation to generation. These are the kinds of holiday items that you will want to protect when they are in storage.

You might only get one or two uses from paper products, but they are relatively inexpensive to replace year after year. Some plastic decorations might last longer if they are stored away carefully. Glass items like Christmas tree ornaments or decorative lights need to be placed in containers that will not allow them to be squashed in any way. Rolling your electric lights onto a spool carefully after the holiday and storing them in a plastic bin, as well as any other fragile decorations, will keep them nice and tidy and protected until the next year. Remember that if you have holiday candles that you plan to use the next time, they must be stored somewhere that is cool. Storing these in an attic or basement that does not always stay cool can be a wasted effort.

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A Figurine Should Be Special To You Before You Add It To Your Collection

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Figurines are only one of many things that people can collect. There are of course antiques that can cost you a lot of money to be able to have, but that does not always have to be the case. Figurines can come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. They can beautiful ladies of eras gone by or they might be clowns, animals, male figures, or religious. What a collector wants to acquire all depends on what is special the individual. They might also inherit a collection of a particular style of figurines and continue it because that makes it special to them.

Even if you do not always spend a lot of money on a figurine, it can be easy to end up with some that might not represent anything very special. It is important that any time you decide to add a new item to any thing you collect that it mean something to you or you really love the way it looks. You should never buy an item just because it is cheap and it just adds one more item. Buying things that do not strike some sort of happiness, memory, or represent something sentimental will mean that you will end up with pieces that do not have special care for.

Some people go shopping expressly for adding items and sometimes you might find them in the most unlikely places. You can buy them new in a store somewhere or you might find them at flea markets or yard sales. Yard sales and flea markets are where you might find a great piece at a great price. Then again, you might try shopping auction sites on the Internet. When you buy used pieces, you should always make sure that they are in as good a condition as possible. Of course, when you buy items like figurines that are very old, there might be a chip or crack. You should only purchase these if you really, really, want it badly because the chances are that item might not be worth the investment if you are paying big money for it.

If you do like collecting older items that can sometimes be costly, do your research and always try to get as good a deal as you can. Buying new items of good quality can be expensive too, but these might increase in value over the years. Sometimes the value of an item is not important to a collector at all if it is special to them. This is what can make collecting so much fun. Buying pieces that you happy and that you are proud to display is what it is all about.

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