Welcome To Flocking Street!

For those of you who don’t know, I also “do” dollhouse miniatures. “Doing” is a very loose term because for me, because it is a collection of activities serving one goal: to tell a story.

Growing up, Sylvanian Families were a luxury toy that I could only get if I asked my Grandma in Japan to mail me some. They had always been a notch more special than Barbie or Legos to me, because the attention to detail of the toy line is out of this world. Nowadays you can find it sold under the Calico Critters brand in the states, and is much easier to obtain.

I started this hobby back in January of 2019. It started out as a family of Sylvanian Families owls, called the Treefellows, whom I fell in love with and purchased from England, and my pursuit of making them the perfectest little house. Since then my collection has grown, and includes other vintage brands like Baerenwald Forest and Simba Bears. In short, I just like tiny, moveable, flocked dolls and the world they can display.

The hobby is all-engulfing. You can just make wooden dollhouses from a kit and collect pieces to fill it, discovering the world of vintage Lundby and Petit Princess. Fill it with weird Japanese gachapon like J-dream, or Re-Ment miniatures. Or you can make them, with all sorts of materials! Like woodsy whimsy styles by Ann Wood. Or crisp IKEA style furniture using a precision cutter, like Dilly Dally Dollhouse. I do all of the above.

What started as a creative hobby and a storytelling exercise eventually became a learning journey. I’ve learned so many techniques – UV resin, using a Cricut, grouting, too many to fit in a tiny office that I share with my husband in this work from home climate. It’s also been a lesson in organizing and cleaning up after myself.

Since that fateful January when I welcomed Aristotle into my home, I’ve made A LOT of dollhouses – and even sell them through my local art gallery, JCO’S Art Haus! I even made a minizine about my dollhouses, which are currently still available over at my shop.

Anyways, I’m inviting you to check out Flocking Street, a tiny corner of make-believe San Francisco. I’ll start posting here too, since I want to consolidate my sites in order to tidy up my digital and professional life.