Merry Christmas from King William Miniatures & Collectibles!

Merry Christmas from all of us here at King William Miniatures & Collectibles!

We hope all of your dolly dreams and miniature mansions come with Santa this year!

I wish to thank everyone for their support and blessings of the shop & our website this year, and hope everyone has a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

~Lisa Neault

* We will be closing early on December 23rd. We will be closed Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. Orders during this time will be processed on December 28th.

We will be closed New Year's Eve & New Year's Day as well.

Sale going on in our Ebay store 35% off at Pumpkin Hill Studios on Ebay from December 22, to December 28th.

40% off in our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios!

We are currently having a Blow-out Christmas sale at 40% off all items in our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios from
December 16th thru December 20th! Get your items at reduced cost in time for Christmas!

*If you are planning to visit the shop, please call ahead- we are currently closed this week due to family illness and
the severe snowstorms that have hit the Virginia area, making it difficult to get to the shop and travel safely to make
deliveries.  Call toll free to check our hours at 877-866-6464 toll free.*

Merry Christmas & Have a Happy New Year!

35% off in our Ebay store at Pumpkin Hill Studios!

We are now offering 35% off in our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios  from December 6th to December 8th!

Please watch & bookmark our Ebay store as I will be offering limited deals until Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at King William Miniatures & Collectibles

From all of us here at King William Miniatures & Collectibles, we wish everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
Without our customers,  & your business, this passion we call King William Miniatures would never have been possible. I am truly grateful for knowing each and everyone of you, and being able to bring joy with the wonderful items we offer for our dolls and dollhouse miniatures!

Don't forget everyone- we are having an instore Black Friday sale 50% off!

Sincerely,
Lisa Neault

Pre-Thanksgiving sale Wednesday & Black Friday- 50% off in-store!

We are currently getting ready,  for the Thanksgiving sales! Wednesday, November 24th and BLACK FRIDAY, November 26th we are offering 50% off IN-STORE only on all merchandise except our glass Christmas ornaments on the trees- the special for these is BUY TWO GET ONE FREE. Glass Christmas ornaments retail for $7.50 each and make excellent presents for those gift exchanges or for friends or the ornament exchange parties! All Large and standard scale Bespaq included, dollhouses, accessories, building supplies, components, and other merchandise is also included in this two day in-store sale!

Hours of the sales days- November 24th- 10 am to 3pm
BLACK FRIDAY November 26th 10 am to 6pm

If you can't make it online- try our 30% off sale in our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios on Ebay  which will last until November 29th!

Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving!

Yuletide Gardenfest Lights Tour& Dinner 2010 Souvenirs arrived!

Our Bespaq souvenirs for the tote bags have arrived- and just in time! Only two  to three weeks before the Yuletide Gardenfest of Lights event on December 5th, 2010 ! Deadline for registration is November 30th, 2010. One of these beautiful souvenirs will be given away in our tote bags when youattend our Yuletide Event. These will also be featured on ONE of our custom Christmas cards each year!

50% off on Melissa & Doug items in-store!

We are having a sale through Christmas on all Melissa & Doug items in-store! We will of course be offering sales on these items in our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios as well. Melissa & Doug items include the stuffed animals, dollhouse furniture sets, and doll family sets, as well as the Brianna, Jenna, and ballerina dolls for children.

Don't forget to plan to attend Holly Jolly Christmas event on November 12-13th. We will be closed from Tuesday November 9th- through Thursday November 11th, in preparation for decorating/stocking the shop for this wonderful event! November 12th Holly Jolly Christmas begins 5-9 pm Friday evening, with Holly Jolly trolleys up and down Lakeside Avenue, to take customers wherever they wish to go, without having to move their car- from Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens to Bryant Park shops. Holly Jolly Christmas will continue during normal business hours on Saturday, November 13th.

Have you made your reservations yet for our Yuletide Gardenfest Lights Tour & Dinner on December 5th, 2010 Sunday??? If not, get them in now- you nmay call us tollfree at 877-860-6464 during normal business hours Tuesday thru Saturday 10-5 pm and reserve with a credit card- $135 for a single ticket package and $199 for a couple. Reservations and spaces are limited,so reserve your space now to celebrate this wonderful event! Some of our work will be displayed at the gardens this year as they are including dollhouses in the library exhibit.

Thank you- and hope to see everyone there!~Lisa Neault

Check out our Fall 25% off sale at Pumpkin Hill Studios on Ebay!

...And our auctions as well! I am having a 25% sale off on select items that must move! This includes alot of 1:12 scale Premiere Bespaq pieces. Our Ebay store, Pumpkin Hill Studios, at http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 has the sale going on NOW thru September 30th! This will also include Melissa & Doug dollhouse furniture sets and plushies as well! Need a Bespaq baby house? Check ours out on SALE in two different scales- 1:12 and 1:24 scale!

Our auctions are active as well...we are moving alot of the damaged  Bespaq out the door at great prices. These auctions also include mint Display pieces that have been displayed inour brick and mortar shop, King William Miniatures & Collectibles. I have recently closed our smaller storage unit and what alot of finds I found! Fireplaces in both 1:4 for Gene or Tyler & 1:3 for SD's bjd's, American Girl, or antique dolls 17-24 inches in height!
Our auction link on Ebay- http://tinyurl.com/ydd6la
Visit our Ebay store Pumpkin Hill Studios at http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65

Wedgewood Anyone?

I found these beautiful Wedgewood Williamsburg Potpourri Etruria & Barlaston teacups & saucers, quite lovely. Many people forget we carry more than dolls and dollhouse miniatures, but also Tea themed items for dolls and children, tiny teasets in the Ruetter Porcelain, but large as well so little girls can enjoy the charms of tea parties just like their mothers. These full size teacups and saucers were too lovely to resist, and right now we have them on Ebay in our  Auctions with a low starting bid or $9.99 or BIN at $14.99. I also have some damaged large scale Bespaq on auction as well, and will be listing more this week.

We also have some items not doll or miniature related, that I am cleaning out of my personal wardrobe- Etienne Aigner shoes and purses, barely worn. Many items are going to our Church's Haiti yard sale, as the fall is coming and it is out with the old and in with the new! Not only in our shop, but at home as well.

Please be sure to check our website King William Miniatures on the Yuletide Gardenfest Lights Tour & Dinner annual event- you may make your reservations on line NOW!Seating is limited, so be sure to make plans to join us for our annual Christmas event...and share the hobby of dolls, dollhouse miniatures and more with people who share your passion and interest.

New items in the shop!

Our new items in the shop have expanded into antiques...one of the newest items is this adorable antique Children's Chaise lounge, estimated date of this item is 1899-1900, late Victorian era, maybe Edwardian. It has been reupholstered with a lovely cream striped fabric, in mahogany finish with a swan neck on the backrest. I have staged it with our Christmas line of items, and an adorable Melissa & Doug Westie plush dog. The chaise measures 19 1/2 inches high, 37 inches long, and 14 inches deep, perfect for your large antique Jumeaus, Bebes, and Kestners, or your 70-80 cm BJD's. This item is a lovely piece to add to any collection or doll room vignettes. Asking price in our shop is $289.99 or look at our Ebay listing: Antique Child's/Doll Chaise Lounge MH Late 1890's-1900

Also, don't forget to check our main website King William Miniatures for our Yuletide Gardenfest Lights Tour & Dinner held at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, 1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond,Va, on December 5th, 2010 on Sunday evening. The Yuletide package includes: your ticket to the gardens, dinner served buffet style in the elegant Robbins Room, souvenir tote bag with Bespaq miniature, 50% off one regular priced item instore for private shopping at our shop, King William Miniatures, raffle prize tickets, and refreshments! Reservation deadline is November 30, 2010. Packages for one person: $135 Packages for two people: $199

new punches just listed in our EbaY Store!

Check out our Ebay store  Pumpkin Hill Studios under The Punch Bunch punches, or Scrapbook supplies, I have listed a whole bunch of border punches, medium punches in circle scallop shapes - perfect for doilies for your miniature foods such as cakes & pies! Also a whole slew of flower and leaf punches in small, as well as mini are available. Check them out in our Ebay store now!

New Christmas in July ornaments!

You may have noticed that we are decorating for Christmas in July! I couldn't resist....especially when our new dollhouse/doll/miniature themed ornaments arrived last week! It has been on my list to do to show collectors how to display their collections, whatever they may collect to advantage in their homes. I have done this for many years myself, and thought what better way than to showcase the shop with some of our antiques, linens, and dolls plus the merchandise!? Since we had a small amount of the ornaments arrive, I used two small trees, and our foldable table to create depth and height where needed. The trees are 2 ft and 4 ft high. The large doll is dressed in an antique dress off of Ebay that was for a child in the early 1900's, she is from my own collection- we call her the 'Big Amanda' doll after my daughter Amanda. The Westie stuffed dog is Melissa & Doug and is for sale in our shop & on our website and Ebay store. Baskets hold the excess porcelaine ornaments.

I have kept to a main color palette for summer-using cream, white, pastel pink & blues, as  burgundy, gold, green would have been far too heavy for summer decor.  The Big Amanda doll's hat and dress mixes into the cream/white palette, with shades of pastel blue and pink, with gold and silver accents, which the angel ornaments are used for. The draping is a cream damask tablecloth that is quite large, and covers the stackable folding tables and display unit the trees sit on. The picture carries the Victorian era theme over and compliments the display perfectly- I did this display in an hour- hanging the ornaments took me the longest. This display it is possible to leave up in your display/doll area/room all year, and display your finest pieces or ornaments. The tree can be changed for seasons, themes, or holidays, and add interest to your room or display area with the soft white lights on the trees. I chose the Victorian era as my focal theme as I can do so much with this decor period.  Doll or miniature trees add a timeless look, and if you have as many ornaments & dolls as I do, pressing them into service for decorating the tree is the next step to getting them out of those boxes!

Shop in our store now for marvelous items to begin your Christmas decorating! We are also planning our Yuletide Festival of Lights Tour & Dinner- Year 2! Check our website in August for more details on this splendid Christmas event! http://www.kingwilliamminiatures.us/

10% off sale in our Ebay Store at Pumpkin Hill Studios!

Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone is having a safe and happy, and most of, patriotic holiday!iN HONOR of July 4th, we are offering 10% off on all items in our Ebay store- Pumpkin Hill Studios! Click on this htt://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 link to go to our Ebay store for our current auctions & sales!
The shop will be open this week on Tuesday & Wednesday, normal summer hours, but will be closed from July 8th thru July 15th for inventory, and re-decorating. Our new displays of roomboxes using the Melissa & Doug 1:12 furniture sets are just the beginning on our store re-vamp! For those of you who shop our main site, King William Miniatures http://www.kingwilliamminiatures.us/ & our Ebay store, orders will be processed upon my return from being out of town July 8-12th. I will have internet access, but may be answering email slower than usual, so please be patient.
Thank you for shopping with us- & Happy July 4th!

Fourth of July SALE In-store & ONline!

We are offering a Fourth of July sale in-store inour shop for July 3rd only--- 10% off your total purchase of $25 or more!

Visit us online at our Ebay store where EVERYTHING is 10% off- July 2nd thru July 7th!!!

http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 & also at our main website www.kingwilliamminiatures.us

We have also begun the re-decoration of our shelves. Check out the roomboxes with accessories and some of the Melissa & Doug furniture sets. Everything shown in the roomboxes are available for order or purchase in-store; this includes the roombox, wallpaper, furniture, dolls, accessories. Design with us, decorate with us!

We wish everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July!

Fun links- Leonardslee- Beyond the Dollhouse

This is a wonderful cool link I found while browsing the dollhouse forum of Dollhouse Emporium, located in the United Kingdom. Called Leonardslee, the link is here-

http://www.leonardsleegardens.com/indexbtdh.html Click on the gallery of links. This large display was inspired by a conservatory/garden the owner commissioned an estate that grew to astounding proportions. The link will probably not be available for long, as the gardens have been purchased by a private person, who is closing the gardens and the exhibit, which is being moved elsewhere. Enjoy the pictures, and download them as it is an incredible and considered one of the finest & largest miniature exhibits in the world.

~Lisa

New Miniature Collector Magazines in stock!

Hello everyone! Lots of great news- and products have just arrived!

Check out our website www.kingwilliamminiatures.us & also our Ebay store, Pumpkin Hill Studios, ( http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 ) for the newest issues of Miniature Collector magazine!

June & July issues contain a wonderful 1/2 inch travel trailer project, designed by Robin Betterly! August has a feature article on Elf Miniatures & the artist has contributed a modern miniature tutorial for the kitchen- plus the Guild Show article gallery is in this issue as well.

VACATION NEWS: We will be closed July 8th thru July 15th for inventory, and redecorating of the shop. I will be out of town between July 8-11, but will be answering emails. ALL orders on our main website, and our Ebay store will be processed when I arrive back in town. Thank you for your patience with us during this time.

~Lisa

15% off Melissa & Doug in our Ebay store!

We are offering 15% off our Melissa & Doug lines of stuffed animals, dolls, and sets of dollhouse furniture until June 15th!! Great deals in our Ebay store at Pumpkin Hill Studios!

http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65

Also newly uploaded, mini punches from the Punch Bunch! Look in our Punch Bunch catagory or our scrapbook supplies catagories- these punches are $5.99 with FREE SHIPPING!

~Lisa

Closed tomorrow on June 5th 2010

We will be closed tomorrow, on Saturday, June 5, 2010 Due to spending time with Family! We will re-open at normal business hours on Tuesday, 8th, 2010 at 11 am to 4 pm. Remember we now have Summer hours!

In the meantime, check out our current auctions, the 1:4 scale Bespaq piano is just one of the new ones listed yesterday.

Auctions: http://tinyurl.com/ydd6la

Hope everyone has a Happy weekend!

~Lisa & the staff of King William Miniatures & Collectibles

Megahouse Tea & Cakes in stock now!

We now have Megahouse Tea & Cakes in stock in our Ebay store, Pumpkin Hill Studios http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 and also in our shop, King William Miniatures & Collectibles. There are 10 sets within the series, and they are adorable! Priced at $6.99 each- limited quantities!


Tea & Cakes #1



Tea & Cakes #2


Tea & Ckaes #3



Tea & Cakes #4



Tea & Cakes #5



Tea & Cakes #6



Tea & Cakes #7



Tea & Cakes #8



Tea & Cakes #9



Tea & Cakes #10



Thank you!

Bespaq catalog in 1:12 scale

I am now making available as a resource here on the blog, the current catalog of Bespaq in 1:12 scale and also, only available through King William Miniatures & Collectibles, the large scale Product catalog of our large scales Bespaq for the doll collector, which is scanned from the actual catalog that Bespaq used to distribute. If you are interested in special ordering any of the pieces in the catalog, please check our website, http://www.kingwilliamminiatures.us/ or our Ebay store, Pumpkin Hill Studios http://tinyurl.com/yjvz65 to see if it is in stock. You may also special order these items, please contact us at kingwilliamminiatures@verizon.net for cost and information on our special ordering policies.

King William Miniatures & Collectibles is a Premiere Dealer of Bespaq, which proves from our selection and reputation as both an online retailer, and also a Brick & mortar shop. We are members of Dollhouse Miniature Merchants Association, http://www.ministores.org/ an organization supported by Bespaq International and have access to Exclusive items, only available to the miniature dollhouse brick and mortar shops.

Speaking as a Premiere dealer and a member of such a prestigious organization, I can truly say that Bespaq is the leading manufacturer of their dollhouse furniture. Buyers should be aware that Aztec Imports is also promoting a line of furniture available through online retailers, and discount retailers, but it is MANUFACTURED by Bespaq, and is not designed by Bespaq, or Pit Ginsburg.

One such item that is new for 2010 is the Lady Lynne Bedroom suite-



For the 1:12 scale miniature dollhouse enthusiasts-



























































Large scale Bespaq furniture, for dolls such as Barbie, Fashion Royalty, Tiny Kitty, Madame Alexander Cissy & Cissette, Gene or Tonner dolls. This furniture is no longer manufactured.