A new tinker has joined our esteemed band of 12th scale ladies and gentlemen at Steampunk-Shrunk Towers.
Meet Doctor Romulus Bagthorpe. If you notice a certain similarity to ‘Doc’ Darius, you’re not wrong. When Darius moved away to his new workshop, we searched for the most similar gentleman we could find. As is usual with all our little people, his clothing, hair and – well, just about everything really – were in a very poor state of repair. 
Mrs S decided it would be fun to create a new version of Darius, so the clothes, spectacles and even the X-ray binocular goggles were reproduced as closely as memory and photos would permit.
Despite all that, though, Romulus has his own personality. Each of the figures, whatever Mrs S may do with wigs, eyebrows and face paint, remains resolutely the person they started as. This gent is calmer, more meticulous and an altogether gentler person than his predecessor.
We welcome him to The Steampunk Dolls’ House collection. Please click here if you would like to view him in the Etsy Shop.
Good day to you all. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Professor Darius Robottom, known to many as ‘Doc’ (something to do with resembling a character from some old film, I gather).
A customer called Sarah sent a photo of three items she had purchased, along with the following five star review:
The next review came from a lady by the name of Diane. She had purchased LG, one of the Offcut Robots, for a very particular – and quite splendid – reason. Here is her photo of LG in position and her review, again with five stars, is as follows:
The emphasis on craftsmanship is echoed by the third satisfied customer – clearly a person of considerable talent herself, which adds value to her review. To her five stars, she added this photograph and the review below:
The final review (at the time of writing) is from a purchaser of a bundle of the printable miniature books available from the Etsy shop and craft stalls. She gave the five stars which seem to be awarded to virtually all the shop’s items and commented:
I opted to stand on the highest point, beside my wonderful astrologium, and we received many admiring glances. One lady almost paid to take me home, but finally decided her funds were not sufficient.
My name is Molly, but since there was a previous proprietor of this little bookshop who went by the same name, the inhabitants of Steampunk-Shrunk Towers call me Molly II, which sounds rather regal, I feel. Apparently the first Molly was enticed to head off to live in a beautiful home in North Wales with someone everyone here calls ‘Her Ladyship’. I’ve read 
That was a close shave! Just as daylight was fading on Friday night, Mrs S pronounced Ginger Jenkins, our latest arrival, fit to travel with us on the Saturday morning, to the Craft & Vintage Market in Glastonbury Town Hall.
“Just a nip, my dear, to keep me alert,” she insists, but she slid from her chair on numerous occasions. Rather unseemly.
Obviously Valentine goodies will be featured – from steampunky stuffed velvet and leather hearts with keys, clocks, chains and more or less anything else that came to hand, to heart-shaped pendants decorated with cogs or crystals.
Perhaps under the cover of those mists we mentioned last time, a selection of tiny bottles has washed up on our banks. (Avalon is, after all, an Isle, if only in name at present.) Each contains a couple of sparkles or tiny gems and a mysterious message, intended only for the eyes of its new recipient. That’s if they can manage to get it out of the bottle… not easy but possible. We’ve tested them.
No peace for us. We’ve been busy replenishing stocks – trying hard to remember just how we made those lines that sold out last year and, obviously, inventing new ones. Once again, we’re happy to announce, there are over 100 lines for sale at the 
The first of those is fast approaching – Saturday 12th February (so just in time for Valentine’s Day!) at the Craft and Vintage Fair in Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset from 10.30.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Arborius Widdershins – alchemist, magician, man of letters and all-round white wizard.
We have a brief respite now until our last sale of 2021 at Glastonbury Town Hall on December 18th, then a winter break until February. The 
Mrs S has enjoyed herself thoroughly and is kept busy creating new stock in between all the sales. Here she can be seen showing off the Case of the Apothecary’s Shop and some of the Clockton-upon-Teas buildings. We have a very few of those left for the next stall, then we’ll be raiding the recycling box for more packets and bottles to upcycle ready for next year.
Having been gifted many boxes of vintage Swiss watch parts – from the days before batteries, back when the clockwork mechanisms were wound by hand – Mrs S spends many happy hours at her desk, picking out one tiny piece after another and deciding what, in that strange mind of hers, they look like. Here, for example, you might be able to spot a gecko driving a combine harvester, Rudolf the wonky reindeer, a flying griffin, a bird on wheels and a turkey… or not! It’s very much in the eye of the beholder. 
Our current favourite is this little horse. Odd that watch parts lend themselves to such an interesting range of designs, including animals. Mind you, we’ve recently been asked if there’s an otter… even watch parts have their limits!
“Ah,” they say, “but when you finally arrive and are unpacked – then it’s all worth it! You’ll be placed ever so carefully in just the right spot to display your fine costumes and intricate details. Fairy lights and spotlights will illuminate the stall and people will come to stare, to gasp, to admire… and sometimes to buy and take you off to a new home.”
We had almost given up hope of experiencing a fair ourselves, but now we have FOUR to look forward to before the end of the year!
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