A SAD, SAD DAY

I just heard that Paul Newman died yesterday. He was my favorite actor for years and years.
And I always loved the fact that he and Joanne Woodward were still together after all these
years, unlike so many Hollywood stars. Of course he lived in Ct. rather than Hollywood, maybe that was why.

Here is a link to the story I read.....

A Big Change of Pace

From reading my past blog you may know we follow NASCAR and have been to some races. But last night we headed to a track where careers for NASCAR could actually start. This is where the very young begin..... several were just 5 years old. Though there were oldies too who just like to race.

We went to the Greenwood Valley Action Track It was a bit of a drive over a lot of back roads but thanks to Map Quest we found it easily.

We got there a bit early and managed to see all the practice runs, all of the heats and several of the feature races. We didn't stay for all the the features but enough. The track is dusty and you can smell all the gas fumes..... But it appeared that all the drivers and families were having a great time.

The food was pretty good too..... Cheeseburgers, Chili dogs, fries and some really terrific ice cream. We left a good bit of money in the concession stand but it was worth it.

Don't know if we will go back to this track but may try some of the others in our area. It is a fun way to spend an evening.

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.