More work on shop

I managed to "take the day off" from the house and my real shop and do some things for dress shoppe.
I drove over to the next town and visited the Mini shop.... Wee Home Shoppe It is such a great shop because the owner is a wonderful lady and a friend. She carries all scales.
It is the place where we hold our monthly meetings of the Susquehanna Mini Makers, a N.A.M.E
mini club. I managed to spend quite a bit of money while I was there and here is what I bought.After shopping I rushed home to do some more work on the dress shoppe. I pulled out the counter I was going to use and filled it with the bolts of fabric and laces. Then On top I put a little hat I had made from a kit that I bought from someone who's name I can't find at the moment .... and a vase (a bead actually) filled with feathers. I imagine there will be a few more things on the top of the counter. Just not sure what yet.
Next I pulled out a couple of kits I had recently put together. One is boots in a shoe box, the other is slippers in a shoe box. They were both from Ann Vanture's Paper Minis She is a great source for paper printie kits for doll houses and dolls as well.






The final thing I added to today's work is a small
display I got in a swap or exchange.... I don't remember which. It is a cute display of hat and dressing table items. I just loved it and decided I would find a place in the shop. I think the shop is changing from a dress shop to a ladies modiste... where she can buy a variety of items for herself.

OUCH!!!

I had some time yesterday so I headed up to my studio to work on my UFO (miniature shop).
I set out to make shelves to hold all the hat boxes I had made..... Somewhere along the way I managed to try to slice the top of my pointer finger..... thankfully it wasn't too bad. I still managed to get them cut out and painted. But it needed a bandage for awhile which was too bad because shortly after this happened I had a violin lesson. It made handling the bow a bit awkward...... but hey, I probably still handle the bow a bit awkwardly anyway... it was only my fourth lesson.

I shall live though.

I plan to finish the shelving today and get it into the shop. That will feel good to have that done.

Time away from doll houses to do an antique show

Since I own an antique shop I occasionally do antique shows. This week we did a three day show in a nearby town as part of their festival. It was VERY hot every day so we were thankful to be inside where it was cool!!! And probably got lots of customers because of that too. Below is a picture of half of our space. The other picture didn't turn out decent enough to post. But you can get the idea from this I hope.

A few things are added

Over the weekend I did find a bit of time to work on few of the little items for the shop. The dress shop may now become a hat shoppe as well. I found some little kits to make hats and I finished off these little hat boxes and some items to make hats are now on little bolts, ready to be used by the shop owners. And I made up these dress forms too. They were from a kit I have had for a long time.

I hope I can get going on the hat kits soon.

Day 2 of Back to Miniatures

Last night I went up into my art and crafting studio and pulled out all the things that I have collected for this new shop..... What a mess....

So today my project will be to sort it all out and perhaps even begin to finish up some of the items. I know there are hats to be made, hat boxes to finish, fabric to put on cards and some mannequins to make. That should actually take up the next two days.

Meanwhile though I have to tend to my Real Life antique shop today. Perhaps I can do this between customers....

I have worked on projects like that before. Some of my customers ask me about the minis if I am not working on anything while they are there.

Back to Miniatures

I belong to a fun miniature and doll house group called GSOLFOT.... We have just been issued a challenge to FINISH a project that has been sitting around unfinished for awhile. WELL, I have a LOT of those.

The first one I thought of was a Doll House Dress Shop which I started several years ago. Actually most of the stuff to go inside is in bags here and there.... so I have dug it all out and starting tonight I plan to FINISH it. We shall see if I really do but since I am putting it here perhaps it will encourage me to really do it.
This picture shows how far I have gotten, better than nothing I guess.

This evening I will take a picture of all the "stuff" and add it here.... and then attempt to show the progress.

I am definitely a proud Sockee.

Twinkle Twinkle Little star

Today was my second violin (fiddle) lesson and I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star... well sort of.... perhaps a bit more practice will be necessary. I remember when we went to see our kids recitals and concerts when they were very young. I am sure they were better..... but practice will make perfect I hope. At least I made some music with my violin.