http://blog.nataschasdolls.com Obsessions of the Craft Addicted Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Barn is now open to the public. We have created a country feel to the Barn with surrounding gardens and views. There are tables and chairs for people to enjoy the creativity within the Barn as well as enjoy a cup of tea or coffee outside. We are open ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2011/10/01/the-barn-and-garden/ We are finally moving! I thought it would be wonderful but its become so daunting! Have gone back to do three shows for the end of the year 2009. Mainly to finish things for the barn and to see what people are looking for? What are they looking and buying? ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2009/11/10/re-moving/ Nataschas Barn and Warehouse has finally been constructed. The barn is on the Mid-North coast at Eungai Creek which is some 36Kms north of Kempsey 1Km east of the Pacific Highway. As you can see from the attached image the barn is in " quaker style" and will allow Natascha ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2009/10/25/introducing-nataschas-barn/ I have been busy working on current projects for the New Barn at Eungai Creek (Mid North Coast), here is a snap of the Barn, please don't take too much notice as it has just been built. I am still in my Sydney place making things, cleaning up and doing ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2009/05/18/current-projects/ I have been so busy preparing greenware so that they don't break while in transit. I also finished projects that I started years ago. I haven't been doing markets anymore I find that they are just a waste of time in this economic climate. So many people ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2009/05/18/what-ive-done/ I have started to begin with the German section of old dolls. I love the German dolls, mainly I am German and secondly a lot of them have very pretty faces and character. They were mostly made for the toy market and competed with the french dolls more ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2007/11/24/german-dolls/ Now I'm doing my German Children. I am still keeping them to a nice marketable size and cabinet size for collecting. Some bodies are in porcelain to size up with their heads and some are in composition of paper mache, treated, painted and sealed! http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2007/11/24/german-children/ After I have cleaned the bodies I check for abnormalities, fix them then I dip them into a product that protects them from deterioration. Most of the compositions of today have rubber components in them and they tend to deteriorate much faster. You can see that it lets out fumes ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2007/08/02/re-milettes-2/ The first half of the 19th Century saw the manufacture of primarily wax and paper mache dolls made in England and Germany. China head (glazed) dolls were made beginning in about 1835, followed shortly by unglazed porcelain heads (circa 1830).They became extremely popular. The Germans dominated the market ... http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2007/04/27/antique-reproductions-rebirth-of-yesterday/ We finally have a blog installed and all at the press of a button too. Well, we poked our tame geek and they installed WordPress and tweaked it a little for us. We'll try and keep you updated with our regular crafting adventures. http://blog.nataschasdolls.com/2006/07/29/hello-world/