New Additions

I acquired a Dura-Craft Newberg for a steal this week that I plan to put together for my girls. If you've been keeping track, I now have the Newberg, the San Franciscan, the Worthington, and the HBS Garage Kit. I missed the deadline for the garage kit by... oh, the project isn't even half finished.

I worked on it a bit this week as it's been promised to a forever home upon completion, and I cleaned my dollhouse table over this week and hung a new supply shelf.

Truthfully, I hung two shelves but since I can't reach the higher one without a step ladder, I put all the collectibles from a studio bookcase up there to make space for all my paints and varnish and things I need easy access to, but don't use often. 

So as soon as I finish a beading project I need to get done in the next few days, I'll be back to my houses with lots of time. 

Doorbell

I realize that I haven't posted here in forever and that is because, in short, everyone in my house has been disastrously, deathly sick and it's been the longest three months of my life. The houses are all exactly as they were when I last wrote, except the Worthington was moved to the basement to make room in the midst of all the chaos.

HBS has recently announced the Creatin' Contest kit for this year and... I hate it. It says two possible things to me and I'm afraid that 90 other people will have very similar ideas. So I'm going to pass unless I get some stroke of genius inspiration. I'm okay with not participating this year because I still have at least three other houses to work on, including last year's competition piece that I never finished. That piece has a forever home though and will be finished at some point. I will write a separate blog post about where that started and where it is now pretty soon.

Anyway, hopefully things will be rolling again soon.

It's alive!!!

After a couple days staring hopelessly at the Worthington, it's started telling me what it wants to be. It isn't whispering - it's shouting so loudly I can hardly think straight.

There is a famous chef married to a well-known author and they have a couple teenage kids. They bought the house for cheap and have spent the last few years restoring and modernizing the interior. A state-of-the-art kitchen with a bay window breakfast nook, an entertainment parlor with old-fashioned marble fireplace, a library with a fireplace and a book nook, a master suite, a guest suite, a rounded southern portico with widow's walk, a solarium, a small attic storage place, and a mud room / laundry room. I am kicking around the idea of a servant's staircase and a dumb waiter.


As for now, this is the color scheme and general idea for the kitchen.

Waiting in the wings...

I have plans to go pick up a new house tomorrow evening. This is the photo from the listing I found.

Some lovely people on the miniature forum kindly identified it for me as the Artply Worthington. It's about 4' wide and 29" high, so... big. I won't get to it for a while but... Maybe I'll have to bump the Victorian for this. I looked at the listing a few times and passed it by because I'm not a huge fan of Georgian mansions (because I'm a huge sucker for Victorians) and, quite frankly, I think the exterior is ghastly. But it's up for sale for $40, so... the worst that can happen is I'll ignore it and re-sell it in the future. But I'm finding that the more I look at it, the more it screams ideas at me and I'm getting really excited about it.

I've been hard at work on my HBS Creatin' Contest entry the last few days, but as it were, I can't show it. Truthfully, it may not be finished on time and I'm decidedly okay with that - plus it has a forever home in Florida as soon as I get it done and photographed so it's all good either way :-)

Also, I've been cutting egg carton bricks once in a while so I can build up my stash for my Victorian project, but that isn't anything to show just yet. 

So anyway, I just thought I'd drop in and update since I haven't been posting much. Thanks for stopping by :-)