30 Tuesday Jul 2013
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Not to worry…I haven’t given up on my miniature house project.
But, having just bought a ‘real-sized’ house, I’ve been spending the summer painting and sprucing it up…three hours away from my Victorian mini! So not a lot of miniature work being done.
But I’m itching to get back to it when I can in August.
Until then…be well.
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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So I’m finally back from all my national and international travels…and I’ve collected a fair amount of miniatures from various shops I visited along the way.
A Victorian bed set for one of the main bedrooms, along with a leather buckled suitcase:
A crib to add to the nursery, along with a “wicker” rocking chair and a Victorian corner etagere:
A billiard table and cue stand for the billiards room under the eaves:
A medley of goods for the nursery and the parlor:
More accessories for the kitchen and pantry:
And a handful of tiny treasures, including the prettiest little butter pot ever and a tiny thimble and sewing scissors for the sewing room.
I’m off again for a few days, but when I get back, I will get back to work on the house.
Till then…be well.
09 Thursday May 2013
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Finished putting up the rest of the nursery wallpaper tonight.
Then I glued in all the baseboards.
Next I re-sized the swan border and printed it out. Glued about half of it on (and smoothed out the wallpaper that was a bit lumpy in this photo).
I didn’t finish, but I got pretty close.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, and then I’ll be away for a little while on travels.
But here is the east side of the house for now…
…and here is the cat who will surely be up to no good until I come back.
Until then…good night.
08 Wednesday May 2013
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What with the flurry of the end of the semester, the onset of spring fever, and with buying an actual real-sized house, I’ve neglected the miniature house for a few weeks. But now that things have settled a little, I have a couple days to devote to it before I run off to summer adventures.
Tonight I finished the nursery floor:
Then I cut out the baseboards…
…glued in the last wall, and fixed the wall which was askew around the door, so I could add wallpaper and trim around the the entrance.
I painted the baseboards.
And decided to call it a night…still need to add the two last sections of wallpaper, add ceiling trim, create the swan border, deal with the windows, and finish the ceiling and lighting.
But for now…
…it seems the cat has finally discovered the dog and is about to torture him mercilessly.
Goodnight.
21 Sunday Apr 2013
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Throughout the day, I kept coming back to the nursery floor boards.
Measuring…cutting…staining…gluing…
…each and every board…
…until I almost got to the end of the room…
Not quite finished….but almost…
And with the ceiling laid on top…
…I think it will make a rather cheerful and cozy nursery.
Good night.
19 Friday Apr 2013
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More of the same tonight…
Little by little…board by board…
I think I might be around the halfway point…or almost…
Still the other half to go…maybe by the end of the weekend it’ll be done.
But for now…good night.
18 Thursday Apr 2013
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Back to the floorboards tonight. Went from here…
…to here.
I’ll get it finished, eventually, but it sure is slow progress…
Good night!
17 Wednesday Apr 2013
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So I’m back to working on the floorboards again.
Started like this…
Then some slow, meticulous work…
….to end up…
…here.
Still a long way to go.
For now, goodnight.
12 Friday Apr 2013
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Went back to work on the nursery floor tonight.
The plan this time was to be as careful as possible when cutting and aligning all the pieces…
Got one of the corners started, and I’m pretty pleased with the result…
I’ll work more on it after the weekend.
Good night.
09 Tuesday Apr 2013
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Went back to the nursery floor and realized I would need to pull up more of the floor boards (and repaint the sub-floor black) in order to fix the alignment problems…
Drew the design lines and noticed that more of the floor boards were off-kilter…
…so I pulled those up, too.
Drew a grid as the base of the pattern and found out all the boards would need to go…
…so I decided to start fresh from the beginning.
And so I began with a grid in the corner and built from there…
Hopefully it will work better this time…sorry I have no real progress to show in this post. Mostly regression, really.
Good night.
Victorian Mini 