Back to Miniatures

Time to Get Back to Mini Making

My arm is getting lots better and so I have gotten back to miniatures. I spent a lot of time yesterday working on a couple of small projects for the bathroom area. Here is the first one. Because of the way the walls are I decided the bathroom needed more privacy.... so..... I bought a screen. I just got an inexpensive plastic Oriental Design Screen.

This is the picture from the online store I bought it from.Y ou can see what it looked like before.

The pictures on the screen were ok but NOT what I wanted so I took out them out, covered them and put them back in. I am pretty happy with the results......

More Kitty pictures

Since I can't work on doll house much or practice my violin or lots of other things I thought I get some current pics of the cats and here they are.

Three kitties in the house make for lots of cat food consumed. The kitties don't often miss a meal.

When not eating Tuffy and Spooky like to climb into baskets. Here they are. They take turns in the same basket.

Roses are Red

For those of you who have been following my life lately you know that I had some minor surgery on my right hand... to deal with a few issues, probably resulting from too much work with my hands....

The surgery is over and I am on the recuperation side. I can almost use my right hand again, for typing a bit anyway.

The day before the surgery was our 43rd anniversary. Can hardly believe it. One interesting note on that... if I need to know how long I have been married I just have to check out the number of the super bowl. The flowers shown above are from my very special husband.

The weather was lousy on Anniversary Day so we didn't go out. Instead we stayed home and I cooked a nice meal.... Boeuf Bourgione or however you spell it. And now for Thurs, Fri. Sat. and Sun. night He gets to cook.

While not able to work on mini's I have been doing planning.... and collecting up stuff to use to decorate the doll house. And also getting ready to do things for the annual Quarter Connection On Line Convention. I have a couple of projects to do for that..... one will be a 1/4 scale Lincoln Bedroom. And I have to make 53 tiny things for the tote swap. So once I get full use of hand and arm back I shall be busy. I do know what I am going to make and have all the materials collected up. I will put a picture here after the convention, some time in March. Can't do it before cause we aren't supposed to tell in advance

Construction is taking a bit of a break

Well, I hoped to get the project finished before Jan. 29, the day I have to have surgery on my wrist.
But I didn't quite make it.... So..... I won't be doing much for a couple of days until the wrist tells me I can. I will know....

Don't not check up here though... I may be talking about other things. My left hand will still be able to type and even my right hand a bit since the surgery doesn't involve my fingers. We shall see.

I have started moving furniture into the house to see how it looks, I have ordered a few pieces I need and today I pulled out some fabrics from my stash to see what I can use for bed linens, curtains, maybe some pillows. I can at least do some planning.

Oh, and the weather today is really awful. It started out with snow, then sleet and freezing rain and then rain and now it seems to back to snow again. But the roads are clear thanks to a busy snow plow so that is good.

I will be able to move in soon.....

I got a lot of little details done on the doll house yesterday. Still seems to be a lot more but it is definitely coming to an end. I must add the corner trim, trim around the door and put on the front porch.
After that set up the room walls and move in the furniture.

I didn't get as much done as I had hoped yesterday cause I had another busy day in the shop. It was cold out but still nice so folks were out and about and some even had money....

Today I will continue to work. Hope to finish up by tonight.

Moving right along

Today I am beginning to put all the finishing touches on the house.
I am posting a picture showing where I am in the process.

I have put a bit of antiquing wash on the roof but it shows better in real life.
There are several more little things and I must finish the back roof shingles.... not too many of them. I need to touch up paint here and there and finish stenciling the front door and then putting on the porch. And finally putting up the rest of the "gingerbread." I am hopeful to finish up today. Yesterday was busy in my shop so I didn't get very much done.

I really need to finish this up in the next couple of days because I will be having some minor surgery on my right hand on Thursday and won't be able to do much for a few days afterwards. At least I don't think so but you never know.

The Shingles are nearly done

Here is a picture of the shingles in their almost finished state.

If you notice they are not really straight all the time.... a bit messy... I plan to age them too...... Don't want them to look all fancy and neat.... this is a cottage folks, not a mansion.

So here is the current state.... I plan to finish the roof, do the antiquing and then start adding trim this afternoon.

This has been the slowest part of the job so far. All the little fussy cuts and trying to make it look a little messy.... not that easy actually.