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FREE MONTHLY Dolls House & Miniatures magazine written exclusively by AIM members for dolls house collectors and enthusiasts. If you love all things miniature - you will love the AIM magazine. Each month's edition features FREE projects, articles and features all written by the worlds top international miniature artisans!Why not visit the AIM website http://www.artisansinm... to find out more!Enjoy...!

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Regular Features… 5 Editor’s Note: Read Bea Broadwood’s introduction & welcome to this month’s fabulous edition of the FREE AIM magazine! 12 AIM Gallery - ‘Shabby Chic’ Compiled by Jean Day. 36 In Season This Month: This month Vicky Guile and her fellow AIM food artisans take a closer look at ‘Country Kitchen Cuisine’. 50 Through The Keyhole: This month we take a peek at the workspace of doll artisan, Cristina Caballero. 63 10 Things You Never Knew About Me!: Learn unusual facts about our talented members! This month we feature Hazel Dowd. 64 Aunt Anastasia: If you have a miniature dilemma, then why not write to our very own agony aunt for her well considered advice? 66 New On The Web: This month we take a look at Viola Williams’s new website. 68 A Visit To Bear Cabin: Regular ‘fantasy feature’ compiled by Celia of Oberon’s Wood. This month Celia explores the world of AIM members, Julia & Hywel Jeffreys. 74 Blog Of The Month: Featuring AIM member Melanie Navarro. 82 Cross Over Crafts: Featuring AIM member Jeannette Fishwick. 94 Getting To Know You: Get to know more about AIM member Janet Dowling. 98 Smaller Scales: This month Jean Day takes a closer look at ‘Shabby Chic’ in smaller scale miniatures. 120 Sew Retro: New regular feature by Kathi Mendenhall. 128 The Knitting Basket: This month, ‘miniature knitting in the round’ by Frances Powell 133 The Miniature Grapevine: Catch up on all the latest news and announcements from the international world of miniatures.

Contents… February 2011: Issue No 31 Cover Image: Béatrice Thierus

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6 Cover Story - Les Miniatures de Béatrice: AIM member, and miniature Artisan, Béatrice Thierus tells us more about her wonderful miniature creations. 26 Stories: Doll artisan and professional illustrator Jill Bennett shares her ‘miniature interpretation’ of “Once upon a time…” 30 Margie’s Petite Palette: A showcase of AIM member Margie Paruszkiewicz’s beautiful miniatures. 40 The Basket Weaver’s Shed: We take a closer look at the stunning creation of AIM member and basket maker Lidi Stroud. 46 Janet Granger Designs: Find out more about talented miniature ‘stitcher’ and designer Janet Granger. 56 Make Do & Mend Miniaturists: AIM member Jane Laverick explores why miniaturists tend to always ’make do’. 79 Calling Cards: Viola Williams finds out more about the role they played in Victorian times. 86 Everlasting Wrought Iron: A potted history by AIM member Louise Win. 114 So You Want Me To Make What?: AIM members share their more unusual commissions. Compiled by Sally Watson.

Free Projects… 21 1:12th - Refurbished Shabby Chic Chair: By AIM member Kerri Pajutee. 22 1:12th - Shabby Chic Chair: AIM member and author, Christine-Léa Frisoni brings us realistic chair project. 54 1:12th - Lacy Knitted Shawl: By AIM member Helen Woods. 60 1:12th - Lets Make A Quilt: By AIM member Ana Anselmo. 76 1:12th - Two Crocheted Winter Blankets: Marianne Colijn teaches how to create these seasonal winter warmers. 90 1:12th - Headboard Project : AIM member Ana Anselmo shares another of her fabulous tutorials. 105 1:12th - Knitted Hooded Cape: A pattern for a toddler doll by AIM member Jeannette Fishwick. 106 1:12th - Rusty Worn Kitchenware: By AIM member Ernesto Baldini. 110 1:12th - Nature Lovers Hutch: Guidance and tips by Maia Bisson 113 1:12th - Duck Head Towel: An adorable simple project by AIM member Jeannette Fishwick. 118 1:12th - Glazed Pottery: We know you will just love Ana Anselmo’s technique to create distressed pots.

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CLICK…on Artisans In Miniature

How did you find the Online Magazine??

Did you follow a link? Did a miniature friend tell you about it?

...and do you already know about the Artisans In Miniature Website, and the talented members who have all helped create this Online magazine.?

If not, copy, paste and CLICK now – www.artisansinminiatures.com and come and meet us all. Founded in 2007 by Bea (Fiona) Broadwood of Petite Properties, the website has been created in order to showcase the fantastic work of the individual professional international artisan members who create beautiful and original scale miniatures for sale to the public. Together they form the Artisans In Miniature association. Since its launch the AIM association has rapidly grown and now boasts membership of around 300 professional artisans, including some of the most talented within the miniature world! On the website you will find further information about them and their work; however, please note new pages are constantly being added and there are many members who are not yet included on the site... If you are a professional artisan who is interested in joining the association, you will find all the information there..... We have lots of links…to Fairs and Events Organizers…Magazines…Online Miniature clubs….Historical reference sites…..Workshops…and more… it’s all there!

If you’d like to contact us, copy, paste and CLICK... we’d love to hear from you!

www.artisansinminiature.com

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The AIM Magazine’s

Editorial Team:

Bea Broadwood (Editor) [email protected]

Vicky Guile (Assistant Editor) [email protected]

Celia (of Oberons Wood) [email protected]

Janine Crocker [email protected]

Jean Day [email protected]

John Day [email protected]

Peiwen Petitgrand [email protected]

Sally Watson [email protected]

New Editorial Team Members: Barbara ‘Babs’ Davis

Janet Smith Kathi Mendenhall

Kim Murdock Lesley Shepherd

Pamela J Shelly Norris

Freelance Members:

Agnes Turpin Catherine Davies Eileen Sedgwick

Jennifer Matuszek Julia Jeffreys Julie Lawton Lidi Stroud

Marianne Colijn Mo Tipton

Nancy Keech Stephanie Kilgast

Please note

AIM is an active association to which all members

contribute …

Dear Reader Once again it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the

February edition of the ground breaking AIM magazine!

With Christmas now nothing but a dim and distant

memory and with even the most stoic of New Year’s

resolutions having fallen firmly by the wayside, the onset of February can

often bring with it a renewed sense of creativity and energy.

It is true, that for many, the days of February remain short and cold, with only

the merest tantalising promise of a spring that is yet to come. Here in the

northern hemisphere most gardens currently serve only as an icy view,

framed by our windows. It is therefore no surprise that thoughts and

attention turn to the interiors of our warm and cosy homes and within the

miniature world is certainly no exception.

Behind the scenes over the last few months, the February edition of the AIM

magazine has grown into a celebration of comfortable homely style. For our

31st edition, ‘Shabby Chic’ is the order of the day, with AIM members have

come together to share fabulous creations, all of which reflect ‘in miniature’

the comfortable ease of this ever popular interior design style.

So if you want to bring some ‘Shabby Chic’ nostalgia to your dolls house look

no further! The February edition has 140 pages, all packed back to back with

inspiration for you to enjoy. Love projects? Then this month you will be in

heaven as you meander through all 13 of the fabulous tutorials that we have

shoe horned in between our virtual covers.

Finally, the days of February may still be short, the weather might be cold,

but spring is just around the corner and until it knocks politely on your door

why not immerse yourself in all that this month’s fabulous AIM magazine has

to offer!?

Bea Broadwood

Editor (& General whip cracker) February 2011 www.petite-properties.com

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By AIM Member,

Jill Bennett

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nce upon a time – that’s a lovely sentence. It has been the start of so many glorious tales.

Old stories and new. I doubt if there are many among us who can dismiss a good story, true

or fiction, without a shred of curiosity about it.

Dolls houses - they are stories in themselves, aren’t they? Whether they are made for the romance of

lost times, Georgian or Tudor, or they are little homes for families of mice. They all contain the owner’s

imagination. So, I got led into making the people for these houses after quite a long history of drawing

people for stories in books, and the memory lingers on.

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here is one Georgian house I know – about 1725 – which it has given me such

pleasure to help to fill with the owners’ playful stories. A tipsy butler, a timid wife,

and in one room the grandfather, plagued with gout, holding a vast ear trumpet,

awaits his port, and many others. In an Oxford pub no end of people from many a

period vie for attention. Shakespeare is sharing a conversation with Dylan Thomas! At another table

Hackney Lil, ex music hall artiste, shares her good nature and her equally splendid bosom with the

local peeler who cannot help but smile!

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There are many more

characters of his I would love

to make. I actually made the

man himself. I believe he is

probably in that pub as I write,

chatting to Shakespeare, and

Dylan Thomas!

Jill Bennett.

www.jillbennettdolls.co.uk

Danish client asked for Sherlock Holmes and Watson – great fun, but then wanted Hans

Christian Anderson himself! Scary! But she sent me a book of his stories with his own

drawings for them in them.

Dickens – ah, there’s a story teller. I had the good fortune to

illustrate his work in ‘Stand up Mr Dickens’. This contains excerpts

from six of his books which have children in them. One was

David Copperfield, and another was Pip in Great Expectations.

So, for an example of what I’ve been speaking about,

here is a drawing of Pip’s first meeting with

M iss Haversham, a formidable lady, and

wonderful invention.

Being besotted with her,

I also did the meeting in our

familiar scale with a

young Estella.

There are many more

characters of his I

would love to make.

I actually made the man

himself. I believe he is probably

in that pub as I write, chatting to

Shakespeare, and

Dylan Thomas!

Jill Bennett

To see more of Jill’s stunning dolls, why not visit her website…

www.jillbennettdolls.co.uk

Text & Photograph © Jill Bennett 2011 Formatted By Bea (Fiona) Broadwood

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Cottage Room box by Malcolm Smith Www.malcolmsminiatures.co.uk

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idi Stroud, owner of Nambucca’s Little Shoppe in New South Wales, Australia shares with us the tale of of her love of weaving and paper clay... I am guilty as charged! I belong to an on-line mini group known as GSOLFOT. In January 2010, Rita Beninde

was kind enough to provide the group with some plans to make Rita’s shed. Of course, I fell in love with it

immediately and after making a few adjustments to room sizes, work began. The majority of work was

completed by April 2010 and it was exhibited at the Sydney Miniatures Fair in May 2010 as part of our club’s

display. I still have work to do on it, especially the internal room and back and side walls – but I also weave

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I was introduced to paper clay many, many years ago while doing a Rik Pierce workshop and have never looked

back! The majority of my buildings are finished in paper clay because it suits my style so perfectly. I love that

it is so forgiving and enables me to achieve the rustic look that I love. I have to admit that I just don’t do pretty

– well only under protest… Lidi.

Naturally, when we saw picture’s of Lidi’s shed, we knew we had to

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What scale is your shed? And is this your favourite scale? My shed is in 1:12th scale and this is my

favourite as it allows a lot of detail with

ease.

It also makes baskets a little easier to make,

although I do make them in 1:24th scale on

request – and sometimes just for the hell of

it or in my madder moments!

What did you find the hardest to do when you were making it? Getting Peter (her talented husband – she

didn’t say this bit!) to cut the timber for me

fast enough! And make the flickering lights and fire. He does all my electrics for me and, believe me, getting

him to do it “now” as opposed to “I’ll get to that next” is hard work!

What did you enjoy creating the most? I would have to say 100% working with the Creative Paperclay – which is my most favourite medium in the

whole wide world!! All my buildings are finished using it as it is so forgiving and gives the “rustic” look I so

love. So, all the brickwork, roof shingles, stone work was enjoyable for me.

Did you make baskets especially for it? Not consciously! I just make baskets, and if I think it might sit right in the shed, I put it in – then it gets sold –

and so they tend to rotate in and out!

What are your favourite elements of it? I love the well! I got the idea for that from a picture of an

old homestead built in 1793-4 in Parramatta, NSW. It just

appealed to me and I thought it would look good in front

of the shed. And I think it does!

I like the stone wall too. It’s really hard to pick anything

in particular – I just think the whole thing comes to-

gether well.

What did you enjoy doing most during its construction? Most of all I enjoy working with both Peter (best friend

and husband) and Jessica (other best friend and daughter)

during the construction of any of my buildings because we

all get involved and it’s always fun.

Baskets for sale..!

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How long did it take you to build? It took me 4 months from start to

finish. I started it in January

2010 and completed it in the

last week of April, just in time

for display at the Sydney

Miniatures Fair held

during the first weekend in May!

I was cutting it fine!

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Do you plan to build any more similar buildings? The next large project I have

planned is a Dartmoor Long

House. Pete is working in

Afghanistan at present – expected

home at the end of February – so I

will wait for his return to start on

this project. I have been doing all

the research in readiness and can

hardly wait to start!

I am also going to New Zealand in

February to do yet another Rik

Pierce workshop. I really am a

sucker as far as working with paper

clay is concerned.

And I also have a room box

planned in my brain – but don’t

know if I’ll have the time to do it in

the very foreseeable future!!

(The sleuth is awaiting this

development with pen poised!)

To see more of Lidi’s fabulous

baskets & miniature creations why

not visit her website…

www.littleshoppeonline.com (still under construction –

hopefully ready mid Feb)

Photograph & Text © Lidi Stroud 2011

Formatted by Bea (Fiona) Broadwood

A peek inside...

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For some folk make do and mend went

out of fashion sixty years ago. For many

modern miniaturists it’s the meaning of

making and the well spring of creativity.

As AIM member Linda Master says, ‘My

motto is: necessity is the mother of

invention! I am always rigging things!’

When Linda’s 21 year old pick-up truck,

Tony, needed a new exhaust pipe she

fixed it with a couple of soup cans she

found in the trash. Perhaps she should

change her trading name from Miracle

Chicken Urns to Miracle Chicken Soup

exhausts.

I have great sympathy with her automo-

tive dilemma. For many years I had the

kind of cars you associate with circus

clowns. There was the one bought in the

dark in a rush; that had doors that swung

open every time you went round a cor-

ner. Then there was the one that, as it

aged, would only start with a push from

the top of the hill. It was O.K. if there

were two of you, one to push and. the

other to steer and let the clutch out. The

real problems came when travelling solo.

I was much fitter in those days, there’s no

exercise to equal racing your car down

the hill to the main road.

Many meld the make do and mend with

their miniatures. Virtuoso arctophilist

Josephine Parnell is also a champion

maker do. The small jet beads she uses

for teddy bear eyes are all from an eight

strand necklace she bought from a car

boot sale fifteen years ago for 20 pence

Twenty-five years ago over a coffee and

donut Viola Williams noticed her wooden

coffee stirrer was a potential floorboard.

At this point Viola showed extreme class;

instead of stealing the stirrer she bought

By AIM Member Jane Laverick

Jane Laverick...

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a box of them from the coffee shop. She glued

them to the mini floor, sanded them level with

an electric sander and gave them a coat of var-

nish. The resulting maid’s room is still played

with by her grandchildren using the lovely dolls

that Viola now makes professionally, after her

stirring start into miniatures.

Josephine Parnell is still thriftily stuffing bears

with quilting off cuts bought by husband Colin

years ago when his job took him to a quilting

factory one day.

When this sort of reputation gets around it can

earn you a “name”. Janet Granger had one of

those; it wasn’t Janet Granger Designs as much

as Mrs Cardboard. Other stand holders at fairs

called Janet and her husband Chris, Mrs and

Mrs Cardboard because they knew that Janet’s

stand that looked so nice from the front was

constructed of carefully draped supermarket

chuck out cardboard boxes that all fitted inside

each other to go in the car. Janet only trades

online now; can you spot any cardboard in her

web photos?

Web photos take us back to Josephine Parnell.

Her photography studio, which was nicely

propped up, as usual, on the water butt in the

back garden, was upended by a sudden gust of

wind, instantly drowning her digital camera.

Fished out and dried off, the camera sulked for

a couple of days before it began working. It’s

still in use and took the pictures you see here.

Make do and mend working conditions are

fairly standard for miniaturists; if you lived in

the home of your dreams why would you need

a dolls’ house? I began miniaturising when my

husband got a new job and we put our house

up for sale. Nothing says: Please don’t employ

me, quite as much as a “For Sale” sign in the

garden. I had the house pin neat early in the

morning and then spent the day with minis on a

quickly clearable tea tray. Ten years later the

Josephine Parnell ...

Jane Laverick...

Linda Master...

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house hadn’t sold which might by then have

been attributable to the miniature porcelain

doll business filling every room. 18 years

later I’m still doing my ‘make do’ job in the

same house.

Bea Broadwood, AIM’s founder doesn’t just

miniaturise dilapidated dwellings; she

actually lives in one. Her aged stone cottage

under its old pantile roof is like a draughty

icebox in the winter. During the recent

record breaking cold spell the water pipes

froze solid for days on end, there was sheet

ice inside the windows and the conservatory

door kept freezing shut trapping Bea and her

husband Tony inside. Whilst the cottage

could be updated and insulated Bea thinks it

would be a crime and is intent upon making

do with things just as they are, no matter

what it costs in heating bills and thermal bed

socks. Now you know why Bea’s Petite

Properties look so very authentic: she’s

‘living the dream!’

So is Carol Smith. Her fantastic minis are

produced with the help of her oven. Sadly,

sometime ago, the outer, closing, oven door

dropped off, smashing the glass. Unde-

terred, Carol props the inner oven door to

with a shoe last, as you do, and carries on.

That’ll be why they’re such lasting minis, no

doubt.

Miniaturists are skilled at adapting what they

find. Josephine Parnell, skilled at gleaning

from charity shops and fur already on other

teddies, has her eye on a furry baby suit in

the local supermarket, once the price has

reduced a bit further......

Meanwhile Jean Day had a lovely food proc-

essor that worked with the aid of her chin.

You had to keep the button depressed with

the spoon you were holding under your chin

in order to have your hands free to add the

Viola Williams...

Janet Granger...

Carol Smith...

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ingredients. These days Jean is using her

mother’s vintage iron to flatten her minia-

ture books and it works really well.

For many years I used the variation in my

own porcelain dolls as a selling point. This

was mainly due to them being rubbed down

on a three and a half legged metal green

house bench that I was making do with until

we moved. If I rubbed furiously as the table

sank in the west, I got a thinner doll. I could-

n’t afford to replace it so I did the miniaturist

thing and kept using it.

Like Josephine Parnell who had two televi-

sions. Together. In one room. Side by side.

One was capable of producing the sound for

a television programme. The other one did

the pictures.

Making do is not just marvellously miniatur-

ist, it’s making the best of resources in a

green and modern manner. It celebrates

and appreciates the joy of owning something

and best of all, it’s hilarious.

Many more marvels at: www.JaneLaverick.com

www.dollshousebears.free-online.co.uk

www.miraclechickenurns.com

www.violasdolls.com

www.janetgranger.co.uk

www.etsy.com/shop/STARSGEMINI3

www.petite-properties.com

www.jdayminis.com

Bea (Fiona) Broadwood...

Photographs © 2011 by the individual AIM artisans accredited

Text © 2011 Jane Laverick

Formatted By Bea (Fiona) Broadwood)

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AIM membership is only available for professional miniature artisans, selling quality handmade miniatures to the public.

Membership is reserved for artisans who wish to showcase & promote their work,

through active participation within the AIM Association. Please note; A waiting list has now been introduced regarding

new membership applications.

AIM is completely FREE to join and completely FREE to be part of.

So… if you are a professional miniature artisan and you would like to find out more about joining the

AIM Association, please email AIM’s Membership Secretary: Tony for more information:

[email protected]

Or alternatively visit our website… www..artisansinminiature.com

Artisans In Miniature“An association of professional artisans, dedicated to promoting a high standard

of excellence in original handcrafted scale miniatures…”

www.artisansinminiature.com artisansinminiature.blogspot.com

The way in which AIM Association membership

is offered has changed!

Due to an overwhelming uptake of membership over recent months, as

from July 31st the AIM Association now has limited memberships available…

The AIM Association was set up in 2007 in order to provide a global platform for professional

miniature artisans who wish to actively promote their work and actively take part and support the

opportunities and promotional facilities which AIM uniquely offers for free: notably including...

The AIM online forum Monthly FREE AIM magazine

AIM Member's online directory AIM website

Aim’s facebook & social networking pages The AIM blog.

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"Jet set" was used by journalists to describe a so-cial group of individuals with the wealth and means to travel internationally by jet. The wealthy could participate in many activities worldwide that were unreachable by the ordinary folks. Though air travel was initially a past time of the rich, by the early 1050’s, the middle classes took to the skies to see the world. Jet set today would probably mean those who own or are able to lease their own pri-vate planes. The rich and famous probably are the only people with the means to travel at will for ex-tended periods of time. Wouldn’t that be a joy!

In the 1930’s and 1940’s hundreds of Aus-trian skiers left their homeland when faced with the German takeover . Many immigrated to the United States. Skiing became popular in the US during this time. The Von Trapp family arrived in Stowe, Vermont in 1942. Ski resorts and lodges were founded in much the same way.

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Retro! and the Post Years!

In the post war years skiing grew in popularity. In 1949 the quilted parka was Introduced which had insulated layers. New nylon fabrics were fast drying and the use of wool declined. Color reemerged and designers made colorful ski attire often with fancy geometric designs. In 1952, Maria and Willy Bogner introduced stretch pants to the world. They were instantly successful. Suddenly, skiing became elegant. Today many improvements have been made with lighter, warmer fabrics. A colorful ski jacket is at home on any street, anywhere. In this issue my jet setting woman is off to meet her friends at the Olympics of 1952 in Oslo , Norway. There, 694 athletes from 30 nations will parade at the opening cere-monies on the 14th of February. There they will party and then jet their way to Chamonix and Paris. But first, let’s get some ski clothes ready. Kathi Mendenhall

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See you next Month.!

Amanda Speakman

Ana Anselmo

Barbara Stanton

Bea (Fiona) Broadwood

Beatrice Thierus

Carol Smith

Celia Of Oberon’s Wood

Christine-Lea Frisoni

Courtney Strong

Cristina Caballero

Ernesto Baldini

Frances Powell

Francesca Vernuccio

Hazel Dowd

Helen Woods

Helena Bleeker

Jane Laverick

Janet Dowling

Janet Granger

Janet Harmsworth

Janet Smith

Jean Boyd

Jean Day

Jeannette Fishwick

Jill Bennett

Jill Harmsworth

Josephine Parnell

John Burley

John Day

Julia and Hywel Jeffreys

Julie Dewar

Kathi Mendenhall

Kathy Brindle

Kay Brooke

Kerri Pajutee

Lesley Shepherd

Lidi Stroud

Linda Master

Liz Mcinnis

Louise Win

Maia Bisson

Malcolm Smith

Margie Paruszkiewicz

Margot Ensink

Marianne Colijn

Melanie Navarro

Mo Tipton

Naomi Machida

Oberon's Wood

Pearl Hudson

Peiwen Petitgrand

Robin and Shawn Betterley

Sally Watson

Silvia Lane

Vicky Guile

Viola Williams

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