Mandy Callaghan
This is such a beautiful site and the most amazing items shown, truly enchanting and inspirational, you are an exceptional artist, your love for your work shines through, I shall keep on looking at this site and buy these beautiful items, keep on producing these fantastic creations, you are amazing.
Frances Rautenbach
My family farmed - I grew up in farmhouses; first, in South Africa, in the ‘bundu’ of the Northern Transvaal where I was born, and first went to school in the living room and garden of two white-haired old ladies who were retired teachers, ‘Auntie Jeanne’ and ‘Auntie Connie’; then in New Zealand, where I enjoyed an idyllic childhood environment and retain lovely memories of a one-room-schoolhouse education with just one ingenious teacher for us all, Mr. Bedford; and finally, amongst south-east Devon's small dairy farms in England, where, inspired by the historical fiction of Rosemary Sutcliff I daydreamt my adolescent years roaming along ancient roads and lanes with history under every footfall. I took a long and happy while to "grow up". Now in my 60’s, I daydream still, at play in my imagination, so richly awakened by photographs like yours, Catherine, creator of scenes of a life lived, as is your sister, Sarah, whose miniature church, St. Hilary’s, shows the legacy your mother left you both - such imagination, amd such a deep and affectionate love of people, places, and pets.
There was one pet in my farming family. On the last farm, aptly named “Sunnylands”, and in the Ettington Village General Store just outside Stratford-on-Avon that my parents "retired" from farming to run, for many years my mother had a useless dog. Judy the Dog was a Bassett Hound. And here she stands, looking up in that deceptively meek and hesitant way she had, in the doorway to your parlour, which is the kind of parlour my mother’s parents kept up in a simple way, and their other two daughters developed in a more grand and beautiful way; my aunts Millicent and Ellinor. Granny and Grandad’s younger son and youngest daughter, my Uncle Sandy and mother Patricia, were too tomboy outdoorsy to develop such parlours, but my grandparents ended their lives living with my family, so I grew to know well their atmosphere, in their bedsittingroom at the foot of our stairs - as is your parlour too. You can see one of my grandfather's embroidered bellpulls on the wall, long enough in this case to be one of his calendar hangers (those tiny calendars the width of the embroidery). The cushion covers would be his also. His prolific tapestrywork extended to carpet-creation also, which your Bassett Hound might appreciate - polished wooden floors render a dog such as Judy so skiddy-ridiculous.
Glimpsed through the doorway into the hall (oh how I delight in the life glimpsed off-stage as it were), I see on the wall the beloved family tick-tock clock inherited by my lifelong dear friend Rodney Polden, and hung in his kitchen in the house he built himself, here on Salt Spring Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. That clock emanates lifetime after lifetime lived in south-east England, by a family who were quintessentially English, where my family were, as the Devon farmers around us put it, "furriners".
Thank you for the richness of a life revealed in a glimpse, reviving all these connections to the world of my ever-living memories. There is such character in that lugubrious glance of a dog in the doorway. So very 'Judy’! She belonged in a parlour, where she could be decorative rather than ruinously underfoot, as she was in the very busy tiny village shop, or "useless" as she was in the fields of a Devon farm, or even in its 400-year-old farmhouse that was Sunnylands, the real home of my own inner being. I do so love England, though I left it to pioneer across the other side of the world, as my grandparents did in the 1920's. You can have no idea how resonant your dollshouse is of The Old Country! Thank you, Catherine.
Debra
Ohhhh I want to live in your dolls house. It's a dream, its so just full of wonderful detail and how I imagined where I might live one day.... The kitchen looks like a place to cook live and be happy 
Kelly Morant
I've purchased a number of items from this website, ready for my dolls house (which I havent even got yet!!) I just can't resist Catherine's work.. it's so beautiful and the pictures don't really do them credit. I've bought a string of onions, a gateau, some beautiful pastries on a cake stand and a plate of cakes. I've also emailed Catherine for something that was sold out and she is making it especially for me! Great customer service and very reliable! What more could you want! 
Debra
Lovely web site to surf - and the detail to your products is a credit to you. I will be back, love what you are doing. Best wishes 
Marianne
I received my string of garlic the day after ordering, and it is absolutely beautiful - very subtly coloured and detailed. This is work of the highest quality. Thank you, Catherine.
Susan Fiet
I loved your beach scene in the gallery and would love to know how you made the foam of the waves. They are just fabulous! Tried to find the AIM magazine they were featured in, but had no luck. All of your work is exquisite!
Michelle
I have purchased many items from Catherine and they are 'all' simply exquisite. To find such wonderful to scale detail is a rare find. 
Catherine Peger
Congratulations for your fabulous work! I like your flowers and food, very réalist! And your website is very nice, it's wonderfull spring mind...
(escuse me for my so limited english!)
Wendy Brown
I recently bought the tiny daffodils in vase and the pink dahlias - they are superbly made, great detailing and the colours are spot on! Great little miniatures and I will be back for more, thankyou!
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