Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

They are Crescent stoves Alf. We havent unpacked yet so no photos. Love the coal scuttle with coal in though and copper fry pans.

Possibly the best lot was some slipware, research needed!

some/most were salesman examples of the real thing and are very popular in the dollshouse world
can command prices up to the 100's......
plain ones average 10-30£
when i had my dollshouse shop, i could sell them easy peasey [when i could get them] and i had clients waiting.
so make sure you get the right prices...;);)

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

some/most were salesman examples of the real thing and are very popular in the dollshouse world
can command prices up to the 100's......
plain ones average 10-30£
when i had my dollshouse shop, i could sell them easy peasey [when i could get them] and i had clients waiting.
so make sure you get the right prices...;);)

When we unpack I'll send you photos and get your advice. You had a dolls house shop??

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

When we unpack I'll send you photos and get your advice. You had a dolls house shop??

yes ! i was a gardener and helped a lady lift a dollshouse into her house from car... i thought "how sad"..:o
but when i saw her collection i was intrigued.. i went to birmingham show a week later, talked lord M's son into letting me have a shop in beaulieu for a trial, [cheap ] and i opened a shop 6 weeks later on a shoestring ..
I LOVED IT
i used to have bacon sarnie and cuppa fridays :rotfl::rotfl: people used to be walking round stuffing thier faces and BUYING..;) :rotfl::rotfl:
I was the arfur daily of the dollshouse world. i used to make/paint in miniature. i built up a reputation [much to DH worlds disgust at selling cheaper than them..they tried to stop me but couldnt they use to mark up thier stuff over 100% :eek: ]
i had to sell up when my ex at the time totaly ripped me off re a house buy....:(
i did it for 3 years.

sorry , woffling on but i really did love it..

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

yes ! i was a gardener and helped a lady lift a dollshouse into her house from car... i thought "how sad"..:o
but when i saw her collection i was intrigued.. i went to birmingham show a week later, talked lord M's son into letting me have a shop in beaulieu for a trial, [cheap ] and i opened a shop 6 weeks later on a shoestring ..
I LOVED IT
i used to have bacon sarnie and cuppa fridays :rotfl::rotfl: people used to be walking round stuffing thier faces and BUYING..;) :rotfl::rotfl:
I was the arfur daily of the dollshouse world. i used to make/paint in miniature. i built up a reputation [much to DH worlds disgust at selling cheaper than them..they tried to stop me but couldnt they use to mark up thier stuff over 100% :eek: ]
i had to sell up when my ex at the time totaly ripped me off re a house buy....:(
i did it for 3 years.

sorry , woffling on but i really did love it..

Brilliant Alf!

Will def do photos for you and will sort out packing for lamp, just give me a bit of time

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

Brilliant Alf!

Will def do photos for you and will sort out packing for lamp, just give me a bit of time

no hurry, get your important bits sorted

choille

Congrats Isme.

Hope you have a better day tomorrow Rummer.

Hope the sheep picks up Alfie, but doesn't sound good really.

I have a serial lamb escaper & I just about had a nasty fall with it at dusk.......who'd keep em? Must be mental.....

It's so mild here - 15degrees, but the wind is picking up yet again & it's started to rain again - it's been so very wet.

Not been a good year for us either - illness & injury & disappointments.

The saw miller still can't cut our cladding - twice the price elsewhere & we'd have heavy haulage costs from 70 miles away - it's all scary stuff.

Haven't got Rayburn yet as the folks who are to help us are busy doing fallen trees - that's come down in the storm.

We have the offer of a free Ash tree cut into doughnuts. So some good from the storms.....I like free, free is even better than cheap.

Hope Rhiwfield that your chest infection clears up quickly - nasty things.

Off to bed now to be rocked to sleep by the wind - NOT MINE i may add.

Davesnave

I don't think many of us were having a good day yesterday!

I wasn't here because the 'puter was playing up. I couldn't download anything. People were sending me Christmas messages I was unable to see...:mad:

Think it's fixed for the moment, but I'm not holding my breath.....

Hope the chest improves, rhiwfield, that the boiler is better Rummer, and that the sheep makes a miraculous recovery, alfie.

Only news here is that the road guys (and gal, who was one of the traffic light people) have all gone. The gully they've made is passable, and if it stops the garden being showered with water in the winter, it was well worth the trouble, never mind the safety aspect.

rozeepozee

Well done, itsme. I always said I'd like to skip the parenting bit and just be a grandparent.... Didn't work out like that.

It's pretty stressful here too, but I think I am just so used to feeling a bit stressed that I can't feel it anymore IYKWIM?

The builders... I can't go there. OH and I have resolved not to talk about it. Whatever will be will be. They are getting on with the job, albeit reluctantly.

I've found a high quality range cooker at half the retail price. It's an ex-display. I really want it, but don't know if I can spend nearly £3000 on a range cooker right now.... We don't have loads of choice as we want all electric, not dual fuel. Everything else, I'm willing to wait for but the 18 months in the caravan has been characterised by cooking on the hob as the oven doesn't work and I wasn't willing to shell out £750 for a new oven for the caravan. I now think I want a good cooker, built to last, so I can do all the roasting and baking that we've missed out on in the last 3 years, but I want one sooner rather than later... The alternative is to buy the £1700 Rangemaster one at the retail price....

Reflections on the Year?

Like you, CTC, I've realised I'm not going to have my ideal home all in one go. Once the builders have gone, we have a lot of decorating and finishing to do. I think my perspective on life has changed dramatically since we moved to the country. I would do things differently with hindsight, but that doesn't exist. Learning that "it is what it is" is how I've changed, philosophically. I think I am probably turning into a Taoist! I'm too assertive to be Buddhist

Good grief! Shut up, Rozee!

lostinrates

Roz.....

I bought a compromise cooker and I hate it.

I have no kitchen sink, not fitted kitchen and have cooked happily on cookers twice my age, but...l.lthis might be the last cooker you buy. They last for ever cared for.

Mine will go out in the dairy one day, would your compromise one have somewhere to go? If not, buy a proper compromise one, and leave a gap and start a cooker fund is my opinion. I wouldn't take a two thousand point compromise in that situation.

rozeepozee

Oh my word. I've just bought one and managed to find a brand new one for £2500, rather than an ex-display for £2700!

Feel a tad queasy, but delighted as the original rrp was £4800 and the Coop are still selling it at that price. It's end of line. http://www.coopelectricalshop.co.uk/Britannia-Sigma-SI-INE10T-SLX-S/id-BRI-RNG-SIINE10TSLXS-SS

I need a lie down.