Introducing Lady Camille Featherstone

The Lady who named the Featherstone Hall Hotel!

I had just completed the first of this doll when when I realised that I did not have a name for the Hotel. After a few days and hundreds of different options I kept coming back to Featherstone and it stuck. She is featured outside the hotel about to enter through the revolving door.

I mention in the article that the Featherstones no longer own the hotel (death duties!), but after consideration I think this is unfair to such a glorious and grand dame and I now think she should be the owner arriving to check on the hotel manager!

She is dressed in her deepest black lace, with gathered satin ruffles and black velvet trim and she is sporting the most over-plumed black feather hat!

This item will be sent registered First class royal mail, to ensure safe arrival of your purchase, or can be sent with next day delivery as an option - please e-mail me if you require this service before purchase.

Please Note:  I can send items Surface Mail to Australia, and Airsure to the USA and Europe. Please contact me for a price.

Meet The Fabulous MARILYN!

Ever since I first discovered her, she has been known as 'The fabulous Marilyn' You can see why! She oozes character and faded sex appeal - we all know someone like her - 'all fur coat and no knickers' as they say! 

This one is dressed in her Dee-Daw outfit, gold lame dress and hand bag, gold faux leather belt, red beads and matching shoes, a red feather cockade in her bleached blonde hair and gold bangle on her wrist - not forgetting a (real glass) wine glas in her hand full of red wine.

However she is featured twice in the Featherstone Hall Hotel - once in the dining room, and once in an upper floor bedroom as Margot the retired opera singer. I will soon have some dolls available in this costume. Please contact me if you would like to be notified when they are dressed.

She comes in a sitting position, and will sit on most chairs - with a little patience! The chair in the photographs is not included

This item will be sent registered First class royal mail, to ensure safe arrival of your purchase, or can be sent with next day delivery as an option - please e-mail me if you require this service before purchase.

Please Note: This item is the doll only not the chair. I can send items Surface Mail to Australia, and Airsure to the USA and Europe. Please contact me for a price.

A pack of ten postcards, featuring scenes from the Upstairs life of the Featherstone Hall Hotel.

The cards show the both the guests enjoying their stay, and the all the hard work that the servants to to make their stay glamourous! Each scene is described in full on the back of each card.

Post card 1: Shows the exterior of the house from the front and side as well as an open view showing all the rooms

Post card 2: James the valet unpacks luggage from the 1913 Model T ford

Post Card 3: Lady Elizabeth Harvey-Jones is having a fabulous dinner in the fabulous dining room!

Post Card 4: In the heart of the downstairs, cook Mavis Gathercole and Chef Dupree discuss how preparations for the special dinner tomorrow are going

Post Card 5: Two gentlemen make full use of the library facilities - by playing snooker, and another inspects the newspaper rather closely!

Post Card 6: One husband knows he has time to read the paper in bed before his wife is ready to go out!

Post Card 7: Both the butlers scullery and laundry/washroom are a hive of activity

Post Card 8: The Dining room is almost full to capacity and the waiters are busy!

Post Card 9:  In the grand Grand Hall Lady Nancy Saville is receiving Sir Michael Fosdyke. He is totally smitten with her, and has arrived with a stunning bouquet of irises and lilies, pleased with the gift, she gestures to him to sit next to her.

Post Card 10: Amy Helpston iis a great beauty, and sits on the window seat in the Lemon room with her dog Maisie, Maid Margaret is just about to tell a waiting guest, that she is dressing at the moment and will be some time.

This set compliments the UPSTAIRS and DOWNSTAIRS set of notecards featuring the glamourous time the guests are having and the less glamourous working life of the servants, and features some rooms and scenes not included in the note card packs. Both the card packs and the postcard set have FREE postage.

A pack of five blank notecards with envelopes, featuring scenes from the Downstairs life of the Featherstone Hall Hotel.

The cards show the staff hard at work to make the guests time as enjoyable as possible, and each scene is described in full on the back of each card.  

Card 1:James the valet removes luggage from the 1913 Model T Ford. 

Card 2: Felix the Butlers champion mouser has cornered a rat in the scullery, where valet Gervais is polishing shoes and boots before starting on the silver and glassware.

Card 3: . Oscar the Maitre d' Hotel is serving Dinner from a trolley

Card 4: In the laundry and washroom Katie the scullery maid is washing up the first batch of dinner dishes, while John pumps water to put some stained jackets in to soak.

Card 5: In the heart of the downstairs, cook Mavis Gathercole and Chef Dupree discuss how preparations for the special dinner tomorrow are going

This set compliments the UPSTAIRS set of cards featuring the glamourous time the guests are having. There is also a set of 10 postcards of the house available separately. Both the card packs and the postcard set have FREE postage.

A pack of five blank notecards with envelopes, featuring scenes from the Upstairs life of the Featherstone Hall Hotel.

The cards show the guests enjoying their stay and each scene is described in full on the back of each card.

Who wouldn't want to be a guest here?

Card 1: In the grand Grand Hall Lady Nancy Saville is receiving Sir Michael Fosdyke. He is totally smitten with her, and has arrived with a stunning bouquet of irises and lilies, pleased with the gift, she gestures to him to sit next to her.

Card 2: In the Duchesse suite, The Hon. Sarah Hookesmead she sits brushing her hair, while deciding which gown to wear.

Card 3: Two 'grande dames' exchange greetings in the gorgeous dining room while a string duo play in the conservatory overlooking the garden 

Card 4: Two gentlemen make full use of the library facilities - and play snooker! 

Card 5: One husband knows he has time to read the paper in bed before his wife is ready to go out!

This set compliments the DOWNSTAIRS set of cards featuring the less glamourous working life of the servants. There is also a set of 10 postcards of the house available separately. Both the card packs and the postcard set have FREE postage.

Library Bar

This gorgeous bar is the same beautiful hand carved quality item of furniture used in my Library/snooker room of the Featherstone Hall Hotel, and is dressed with the same range of bottles and accesories, but has a huge silver centrepiece of a fruit buffet, for guests to nibble on or add to their drinks, and the the left hand side of the counter top is given over to smokers accesories - turkish cigars, tobacco jars, a pipe and spill pot.

The lower central shelves are packed with glassware ready to use, and the the shelves above the counter hold liquers for the more exotic tastes of the hotel guests.

Meet EMMA! - Fancy half a pie?

Emma is one of the characters to be found in the FEATHERSTONE HALL HOTEL project I have just completed for the 200th issue for Dolls House & Miniature Scene Magazine - although she is called Mavis Gathercole there, and she is discussing tomorrows dinner with chef Linguine.

She wears a sage green dress with white apron and a red gingham tea over her shoulder.

Tucked into the top of the apron is a tasting spoon and on her belt are some keys.

She is holding a freshly baked pie with one slice already out and has a knife in her hand to cut another.

Arthur the footman was made to go in the reception hall of the hotel, but I just could not squeeze him in!

He is from my new series of dolls designed by international doll artist Marcia Blackstrom (recently featured in Dolls house & Miniature Scene Magazine)  and made by Falcon Miniatures with finishing details by Dee-Daw Designs.

He has the most fantastic face, and is wearing black trouses with black waistcoat and white shirt. He is just managing two large black real leather suitcases.

Please note this is quite a heavy doll so the postage reflects the extra weight.

This item will be sent registered First class royal mail, to ensure safe arrival of your purchase, or can be sent with next day delivery as an option - please e-mail me if you require this service before purchase.

Please Note: This item is the doll and two (attached) suitcases

I can send items Surface Mail to Australia, and Airsure to the USA and Europe. Please contact me for a price.

James the valet is the first person we see at the hotel, as he is unloading luggage from a 1913 model 't' ford. He also features inside the lower hallway carying in the luggage.

He is wearing a morning coat, and grey marl trouses with black waistcoat and white shirt. He is just managing two large brown real leather suitcases.

As its getting so close to christmas I have have included (UK) next day delivery in the postage cost, to ensure safe arrival of your purchase.

Please Note: This item is the doll and two (attached) suitcases- the car is not included!

I can send items Surface Mail to Australia, and Airsure to the USA and Europe. Please contact me for a price.