A few more things I have accumulated recently...

Concord dresser and mirror and mugs from ebay, model ship from a thrift shop, and lamps from and antique shop. Anyone recognize the lamps?

and here's my making minis library, with a few new additions!

However, the MAIN new thing is still in the trunk of my car. It is a KIT. Yes, it is. It is a Walmer Mulberry kit, my FIRST EVER, so a new house is in the future for this neighborhood!
But...

 the table must be cleared!

I'm including this picture in case you ever need to make a mini VW engine.

Oh dear - I have quite a lot of catching up to do!

But now I have a lovely new computer to do it on! I'll begin with the pillow update. I haven't made a million - it just feels like it!

AND I'm afraid I have been in collecting mode and quite a few items have landed in our humble neighborhood...

a fashionable addition to the other Tomy furniture...

This Tomy kitchen sink, for example, a Valentine's present from the spouse...

inch by inch, room by room!







Didja notice the rugs under the pillows I made? They arrived in the mail from Turkey. Does that make them authentic?

Hey! - where have I been?

Well my computer has officially been retired! Just got a new one yesterday and reconfiguring everything - I hope to get a reasonable post up tomorrow WITH photos. 'K?

Stripping wallpaper - look what's under!

Emptied out Wensleydale cottage in order to start refurbishing and get some better pictures of details. 

 

 

 

 

TA-DA!!!

It has a strip of tape wrapped round to frame it, and some of the green paint came off with the  wallpaper, but pretty and sweet eh? Now I have to figure out a way to restore it!

roof and electrical system:

 

I think you can click and they'll pop-out bigger...

 

On the second floor there's another layer to the wall, between which the wires come down. On the first floor they were just wallpapered over...

I just like this picture, so I threw it in...

No - I haven't been been just lying around...

I have been lying around on PILLOWS!!!

So far I have made 10, and I am just going to keep going for a while. You can never have enough pillows, and I am sure my small dwellers will appreciate them...


I really like the bright yellow cushions in the
blue Ikea chair - as the spouse pointed out,
it's Ikea/Swedish colors too...
I have been hand-stitching them, finishing about 1 a day. I like hand stitching - I can carry it easily and just work on it wherever I happen to be.  At work, for instance...

and the stripey ones are made from my daughter's favorite corduroys when she was 4 years old - now I have a good way to keep those around forever!















 This was my first one: 

Here's another dollhouse...

I picked this one up at a thrift shop about 4 years ago for the kid and right now we have a grouping of TOMY furniture in it.

Some of the furniture is from the '70s Smaller Homes and Gardens set, and I am very fond of it...
the rug in the far room is Ikea, the lamp and tray are Fisher Price, and the flowers stuck in the top of the lamp are from an Angelina Ballerina set.

Today I feel like a story...

This one is kind of beat up and torn, but still beautiful!

You remember Watty Piper do you not? He wrote The Little Engine That Could.

 

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