{"id":20581,"date":"2023-11-04T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=20581"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T05:22:08","slug":"half-scale-at-auntie-ems-miniatures-in-glendale-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=20581","title":{"rendered":"Half scale at Auntie Em’s Miniatures in Glendale, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Geoff and I took a trip to Arizona. We spent a couple days in Sedona and also visited the Grand Canyon — which is, as you can see below, very big.<\/p>\n

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On our way back to the airport, I sweet-talked him into taking me to Auntie Em’s Miniatures in Glendale. We got there at 2:15 and needed to leave at 3:30. Plenty of time, right?<\/p>\n

I could have spent ALL DAY in this store.<\/p>\n

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Walking around looking at the houses on display, I noticed a few half scale.<\/p>\n


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This one is a Bauder-Pine shotgun house. There were plans for this house in the May 1995 Nutshell News. This one was built in a class.<\/p>\n

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If I hadn’t been about to get on an airplane, it would have come home with me.<\/p>\n

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And a couple of half scale shells. I don’t recognize either of these.<\/p>\n


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It was now 2:30 and I was worried about running out of time so I asked if they had a half scale section. The owner led me to this case. The top two shelves and left half of the bottom shelf were all half scale.<\/p>\n

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There was a good variety ranging from Bespaq to handmade stuff. A lot of kitchen accessories and food, some resin pieces, several of the raw wood Shenandoah Shaker furniture pieces. <\/p>\n

There was also a rack of half scale components and accessories.<\/p>\n

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Most of the furniture was inside its own little plastic box, stuck down with putty, which was perfect for stuffing into my suitcase because I didn’t have to worry about it getting crushed.<\/p>\n

I’ll show what I bought farther down in the post. But here’s one piece I didn’t buy.<\/p>\n

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I liked this southwestern table, but it was $40 and seemed like it wouldn’t be hard to make. I used that tile as the floor in my Orchid kitchen<\/a> a million years ago and think I have some left.<\/p>\n

These 1:12 porches also caught my eye.<\/p>\n


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I have one of these<\/a> (not finished yet) in half scale. I’m not really sure what to do with mine — which might have something to do with why it’s unfinished — so I enjoyed seeing two different takes.<\/p>\n


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And one more shot of some of the vintage dollhouses on display. There was plenty of 1:12 stuff there too, and half of the store is devoted to vintage toys and pedal cars, but I just didn’t have time to see it all. (It’s not a huge store, but there’s a lot crammed in!)<\/p>\n

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So here’s what I bought. These William Clinger chairs were $35 and $40. I’ve always loved the William Clinger chairs but didn’t want to pay the (usually much higher than this) prices on eBay. Well, now I have a couple!<\/p>\n

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They’re both signed (but the darker one is hard to read).<\/p>\n

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$20 for the shelves and $4 for the coal scuttle.<\/p>\n

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This one is signed CJ’s.<\/p>\n

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I have another CJ’s piece in my stash. I won’t necessarily use them together, but I like that they’re siblings (or at least first cousins).<\/p>\n

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Also got a few kits. The ‘1\/2″ Colonial’ kit on the left is a dollhouse for a dollhouse.<\/p>\n

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These are quarter scale window but I thought I could do something stained glass\u2013like with them in half scale.<\/p>\n

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The Garden of Delights<\/a> is a child-sized playhouse designed by Pam Junk. The larger one, which I already had, is a 1:12 playhouse that’s roughly half scale. The kit I bought at Auntie Em’s is half scale, which will make a roughly quarter scale house.<\/p>\n

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(I also have a quarter scale version of this kit that Pam gave me years ago. Someday I’ll assemble them and line them all up, just because.)<\/p>\n

Finally, there were several piles of booklets at the counter and I only had about ten minutes left on the clock. I quickly thumbed through them looking for needlework booklets. These were marked $1\/each but the owner gave them to me for free!<\/p>\n

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All in all — fun trip to Arizona, fun trip to Auntie Em’s. Wish I could have spent another hour there. I miss having a local mini shop.<\/p>\n

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