Visit The Dolls House Emporium shop in Ripley Derbyshire for some great bargains.

Our summer sale ends on August 27th, so you’ve still got time to get that bargain to make your friends green with envy.

Hunt through the blue bargain bins to find wallpapers for 50p, carpets for £1.00, and wonderful porcelain dolls from as little as  £12.00.

If you’re building your 12:th scale dream home from scratch, don’t miss our huge selection of bits & pieces for the builder, with prices from just 50p!

Opening hours are 10am – 5pm seven days a week. Visit www.dollshouse.com  for further details and directions.

Do you know what you’ll be doing over the month of August? We’re sure that plenty of you will be heading off on holidays, but for those who are still around, there are plenty of dolls’ house and miniatures related treats in store, especially over the bank holiday.

Check on www.mgmfairs.co.uk for a list of fairs month by month or on

http://www.dollshouse-info.co.uk/index.htm for a list of fairs split by area and then by date. And of course there are regular events at the World in Miniature Museum at Houghton Hall; http://www.aworldinminiature.com .

And don’t forget that our own shop at Ripley, Derbyshire has exclusive pieces that are not available anywhere else, which at the moment include delicate and intricate black-work cushions and hand made leather luggage (and even gloves) that you wish were life size they are so good! So why not take a trip out, even venture to staying over night and seeing some of the other local sights. View the local tourist website at http://www.visitambervalley.com  to find true Derbyshire B ’n’ Bs, you could even combine your visit to The Dolls House Emporium with a trip on an old tram at the Crich Tramway Village or a steam train on the Midland Railway and who knows what you’ll be wanting to buy in miniature next!

Huge Congratulations to Colette Bane from Preston who has won the £1000 worth of Gift Vouchers to spend at The Dolls House Emporium. For those of you who didn’t win, please don’t be too disheartened! Everyone who entered will be getting a small token of our thanks coming to you soon,  just to take the sting out a bit.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoyed the games and are happy to know that Ruby and Gemstone are well and safe. We’ll keep you posted for the next competition, so keep checking the blogs, website and forum for more information and to keep in touch with all those other miniature enthusiasts!

Here’s your unique opportunity to find a real bargain!

From April 1st to May 31st, exclusively at The Dolls House Emporium shops in High Holborn Road, Ripley, Derbyshire and Houghton Hall Garden Centre, Carlisle, we have an amazing clearance sale!

Hundreds of 1:12th scale treats, including, one-off samples, ex-display items and discontinued lines. With more stock arriving daily, don’t miss this great opportunity to add to your collection at a great low price!

Kew Palace will reopen on 21^st March 2008 and much of its restoration is owed to one dolls’ house belonging to King George III’s daughters.

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