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Vanessa Wales
Vanessa Wales was born in 1950 in the town of Bromley in Kent.
She left school at the age of fifteen and started work in Hatton Garden training to be a Diamond Sorter.
After a ye...view moreVanessa Wales was born in 1950 in the town of Bromley in Kent.
She left school at the age of fifteen and started work in Hatton Garden training to be a Diamond Sorter.
After a year she left to start an apprenticeship in hairdressing.
She married in 1969 , and had two daughters.
In 1981 she opened her first salon in Erith Kent, and two years later having become a single parent went on to open another salon in Bexleyheath.
After re- marrying she sold her businesses had two more children and settled down to domestic life.
It was not long before she became restless, so with the help of her friend Sue they both became dolls house miniaturists, making tiny period hats for dolls houses, selling them all over the world through fairs and even supplying them to Hamleys the famous toy store in London.
When asked to write an article for the Dolls House World magazine, Vanessa jumped at the chance and after completing the first one, became a regular writer for the magazine .
In 1997 she moved again to the west country and worked in a residential home as an activities organiser. Part of her remit was to produce a monthly newsletter for the residents, containing stories about some of their lives.
She now lives in Dorset with her husband with family nearby.
This is her first book.view less
Books by Vanessa Wales
My Beautiful Daughter: An Inspirational True Story About a Daughters Fight to Conquer Her Drug Addiction Through the Eyes of Her Mother.