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What are you at? This is it: Miniature mummers

Mamie Chaulk of Charlottetown, near Terra Nova Park, crafts one-of-a-kind mummers all year long.

Mamie Chaulk of Charlottetown, Newfoundland creates one-of-a-kind mummers

Mamie Chaulk's miniature mummers are posed in a dory on her back deck in Charlottetown, Newfoundland. (Courtesy Mamie and Les Chaulk )

Mamie Chaulk of Charlottetown, near Terra Nova National Park, craftsdoll-like mummers all year long.

Chaulk says she often dressed up as a mummer as a child,and creates the figuresin the style she remembers.

Chaulk says the outfits remind her of what she and her friends would wear while mummering as children. (Courtesy Mamie and Les Chaulk )

"I mummered with a stick [and]some of my friends might have [had] an accordion."

Chaulkalsoknits and sews the mummers' clothing herself.

Chaulk knits and sews all of the clothing, and makes the accessories herself. (Courtesy Mamie and Les Chaulk)

Chaulk said she sellsher miniature mummers to expatriate Newfoundlanders and Labradorians all over North America.

Everyone who has bought the mummers has said, 'I can't wait to get back to Newfoundland to do some mummering.'"

" I don't think they forgot their Newfoundland roots at all."

No two of Chaulk's mummers are alike.

"Everyone I make has a different look ... Iget a great kick out of doing them."

What are YOU at?Emailwam@cbc.ca and let us know. We'd love to do a feature on your interesting hobby.

Mamie Chaulk in her mummer workshop at her home in Charlottetown near Terra Nova Park. (Courtesy Mamie and Les Chaulk )