What are you doing next Saturday?

If you don't know Solano Avenue, you don't know your East Bay.

Half in Berkeley and half in Albany it is the hippest neighborhood of California bungalows, collection of restaurants and stores and galleries. And we have a new addition to announce.

           The Doll's House, which you can find more about at           
                              www.thedollshouseco.com

                                             
                                              Dine here...

                                               or here...

                                          Buy flowers here...

                                 By the old Oaks Theater

                      In a side alley is the new community space called Open Fine Art Gallery. It is an  Event Space, Gallery, hosts Meetups and holds classes. AND has the Doll's Houses of Naomi Kamiya

 Oh and architecture lovers that we mini house people are, be sure to see the surrounding fine examples of California bungalows.

More about the Open Fine art Gallery and a look at the inside go to http://Myrealitty.blogspot.com  

I'm excited, CM 

P.S. My aol address was hacked so I ended it and have a new one. Do not open anything under the old address from me. Thanks C

So Not clear about the concept...

From Pinterest:

                                                    Barbie
           Reminds me of this New Yorker cover, July 30, 2007.

                        Being a woman is all so interesting.
 CM

Just so you don't make the same mistake...I

I did... I put "Boulle" in all my search engines.
It turns out 

Mr. Pierre Boulle wrote this book, Planet of the Apes. 

Now I get notified everytime it appears for sale. Hmm. How to fix. Shrug, CM

If you watched the opening season of Mad Men did you see the mini commercial???

 There I was soaking up all the mid century design and along came a commercial using mini furniture.

Pretty funny in a show about an innovative ad firm.

The plot was a guy walks up to his buddies in the park who were enjoying a ball game on tv.

 

 Which was his cell phone sitting on a miniature piece of living room furniture.

He took his nachos out of a mini stove.

 And opened his mini refrigerator to toss his buddy a mini can of beer!

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Illustrating how the picture on his cell phone was as good as being in his own livingroom.

 

OK! Good add, point made by 1 800 watch tv. Made me sit up and notice. Would love to see the guy pitching that one...

What does this remind me of? A 2009 post I did of Mitchymoo's work from flickr.

Someone else used cellphones as tvs. Do you remember who? Hmmm I think PDR made an ipod station that looked like a tv wall unit, I better go check. 

 Thanks, CM

How you know your family gets you...

When they hand you your Easter present and say, "I thought you could make something with the cage... You know... for your houses?"
Girls in pink:    My Little Assistant

 My Littlest  Assistant: Boys in Blue

AKA: Men in Plaid


Smart bunny! CM

Oh Barbie! You haven't gained a lb.in 54 years!

Susan's Mini Homes blog http://susanshouses.blogspot.com/  has sent me back to childhood memories. She pointed out today is Barbie's Birthday, she is 54.

Barbie's scale set at 110 lbs.

images from wikipedia

Barbies diet book titled "DON'T EAT!"

Barbie sought to enlarge it's market in 1997 and caused a furor over it's name.

Contemporary size adjustments to the Mattel Barbie doll.

This is the German Bild doll "Lilli" Ruth Handler's daughter Barbara liked to play with and she modeled her Barbie doll after her.

If Barbie were a real person this is what she would look like.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/galia-slayen/the-scary-reality-of-a-re_b_845239.html 

But we cannot lay all of "body dismorphia" at Barbie's tiny feet. 

It took a lot of brave women to reject the corsette. Remember fainting couches? That is because the womens lungs could not fully fill with oxygen if they exerted them selves in any way. 

Breathe deeply and be glad you are a woman in this century. Have your cake and eat it too. C

Pin it?

Interesting to go on pininterest and see your pictures. I found my German roombox on Dollhouses. I started a page called dollhouseme. Haven't even figured out yet if caps matter. Tell me what you know about it. Have you been "pinned"??? Is it to show you have good taste? To share ideas? Is to show what you desire to own? I can see why etsy  people go on it to show their wares. What is it about? 
Today in the Huffington Post:   www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-kanalley/pinterest-competing-twitter_b_2697791.html?utm_hp_ref=technology More about Pinterest