Dolls House Show - my Haul!



The Americahal - Apeldoorn

On Sunday we went along to the Dolls house Netherlands show at the Americahal in Apeldoorn. It was a huge event. There were customers in the large queue speaking French and German amongst others and many had come armed with small pull along suitcases to put their purchases in.  I could not believe how many stalls there were inside - it seemed that every available space inside the building had been allocated a stall. There were stall holders from The Netherlands - UK - USA - Canada - Spain - Germany - Switzerland - Italy - Sweden - Japan - France - and Argentina.

The entrance fee was a little pricey at 10 euros but with so much to see it was worth that amount.
I was like a child in a sweet shop - there was so many wonderful miniatures and dolls houses to explore. Many were very expensive but I managed to find a few bargains in the Aladdins cave of treasures.

A Dutch lady called Gaby Jansen had lots of bargains on her table in baskets - priced at 2 euros 1.50 and 50 cents. I dug around and was delighted  to find a victorian screen priced at 50 cents - a mandolin slicer with a coffee grinder 50 cents for the 2 - a brass bird cage for 50 cents - and a bag full of bathroom accessories all for 1 euro and 50 cents and that was before I had looked at any of the other stalls.

Moving along I then bought an iron for 50 cents - a bottle of orange for 70 cents and a baking tin for around 90 cents.

A UK stall which was huge and had so many people crowded around it, was selling porcelain dishes and polymer clay food items. When I did manage to get near the front I bought 2 dinner plates and a porcelain pie dish. The plates were about 90 cents each and the pie dish was 1 euro and 10 cents.

My last purchases were a pack of 50 wooden sticks (which are very useful in miniature making) for 60 cents and a pack of 2 delightful teddy bears for 2 euros and 40 cents - I could not resist them.

There were many dolls houses for sale - some already built and lots that were flat packed. The choices were so great it was difficult to make your mind up.
There was a wonderful display of very large houses from one company called "The dolls house builder" who are based in Cornwall UK. There was a lot of interest in their enormous house.

It took us 2 1/2 hours to walk around and we would have been there longer but we couldn't walk much further so we called it a day.

The good news is that the Americahal have signed on the Dolls house show for the next 4 years - and the next one is in April 2013 Yay! Can't wait - need to save the pennies up!

http://www.thedollshousebuilder.co.uk/


http://www.mytinyworld.co.uk/


http://www.americahal.nl/cgi-bin/index.html


http://www.dollshouseemporium.co.uk/