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I started collecting miniatures one day when I was eight years old. My parents and I were at a swap meet and I saw a woman selling miniature accessories and furniture. I had $20 in my pocket and could spend it on whatever I wanted and the little miniatures completely caught my attention. I started with a small kitchen table and four-chair set, an inexpensive set of a stove, sink and fridge and a floral couch with matching recliner and ottoman (my mother bought me the couch set since I didn't have enough). We went to Target and my mom also bought me two "Star" dolls which were miniature sized rock dolls for about $6 a piece. Since then I've been hooked.
I'd spend all of my chore money on our bi-monthly trips to the swap-meet where I would spend all of my money on miniatures. Eventually I had enough furniture and accessories to furnish a house. I'd ask for money for birthdays and saved for months and bought myself my first dollhouse when I was 10 for $150 dollars which I still have. It was just a shell which I painted myself. I chose blue for the outside and white for the inside using old housepaint I found in the garage and spray-painted the roof brown. It still has no windows or doors and still has that original coat of paint. I've kept it that way for nostalgic reasons. I still own all of the furniture and accessories that I originally bought when I was a litle girl.
A few years ago I decided that I could turn my much loved hobby into part-time work and started Celestial Dreams named after my daughter Celeste. My dream is to share this hobby with her as she grows.
My current project is a Queen Anne victorian dollhouse which I bought unassembled. I am almost finished putting the shell together and the next step is sealing it then the electrical. I am saving the much smaller one I bought when I was 10 for my daughter so we can work on it together and have already bought her her first dollhouse and she is only 2. She loves to play with it and my hope is that she'll love collecting just as much as I do.
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