It's a small world: Illawarra women and their ridiculously awesome doll's houses

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Updated September 28 2021 - 11:36am, first published May 7 2021 - 7:30pm
Chris Dodds with her handmade fairy cottage, which took a year to make. Photo: Robert Peet
Chris Dodds with her handmade fairy cottage, which took a year to make. Photo: Robert Peet

Welcome to the deeply immersive world of miniatures, a hobby that's enjoying a renaissance of sorts due to the pandemic. Not necessarily for kids, it's unapologetic fun for adults.

Over lunch one day, Chris Dodds' niece saw a photo of the magical cardboard dollhouse Chris had made her granddaughter and coveted one for her own young daughter. Maybe they could get together over the weekend to make it, she suggested.

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Tareyn Varley

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For the past 15 years I've been toiling away behind the scenes on story ideas, web production, headline writing, home page editing and social media management. I'm passionate about passing the mic to Illawarra residents who find themselves with no power and no voice.

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