Life takes too much time from my minies...

This week is totally crazy, Kara has ringette practice every evening as does Ron have hockey and tomorrow my brother has his 50th birthday party and Sunday I'm going to a dog show, wishing to get a CAC and CACIB to our CAO bitch - no time for minies, mrrr.

Well, I've got something done, but they are going to Jody at Beach Blossom Hill, so can't put picks of them here, otherwise it would ruin the suprise. And saying this, Jody, don't except anything great, as my mini crafting skills are still in their baby shoes :D

But I want (and will) get something done this weekend, just have a slight problem with the Bakkery - can't decide to which era it belongs. Any suggestions ladies? There is electrical lights and running water so it has to be fairly modern, but how modern? Should I have a retro 50's fridge? Then I would need a bathroom. Or could it be in the beginning of 20th century? (did they have running water at that point all over Europe?)

I won't be doing any exact period as my wallpaper isn't for sure suitable for the older times, but I still want the basics to be right. So, what do you suggest, fridge and toilet or running water, outhouse and washstand? Where did the bakers store their cream and milk before fridges? I know, I'm really bad in history... History of interior decoration is much more my thing (I'm also a interior decorator as profession) but at least now I don't want to do any strict replicas of one era, just to have the basics right.

And I want an accent color to the bedroom, which is now red and off white, light turqoisishs light blue or yellow? In real life I would go for the turqoise but should I widen my color world and use yellow, which I don't have in real life anywhere? Isn't this difficult :D My friend Hanne who has also a dollhouse probably thinks that I'm really difficult as I call her (almost daily) and nag about the basic things -" if I have the sink here, the bathroom has to be situated close to it, but if I have the bathroom then the oven is going to be in wrong place as I can't put the chimney above it... nag, nag, nag. As I know how you build houses, do the plumbing, the electricity etc. it's sometimes really difficult for me to "let go" and free my mind with the dollhouses from the real life construction restrictions. Some "mistakes" I can bear, but the still, the nag-nag-me can't yet let it go - tell me about it, how difficult you can do things to yourself :D

Now off to stables,

Ira

Welcome Lize :)

Nice to have you here,

Ira

Welcome Lena and Jody :)

Really nice to have you guys here and OMG, over 50 followers :) It probably should be time to have a give away, but as I haven't mastered any mini crafts yet, you'll have to wait - I have tons of ideas what to do, but the realization is the problem - minis are quite (hugely) difficult to do. So, I'll wait until I can do something so well that somebody would actually be happy to receive it :D

Ira

Welcome Allie, Paky, The Sunny Hours, Teresa and Sylvia :)

Welcome to my blog, really nice to have you here in my miniworld :)

Ira

I am SO HAPPY!!!!!

I just got an email from Josje - I won her wonderful trunk in her giveaway!!!!! :D

This really made my day, which has been a bit awful - the winter has been so hars that we run out of oil last night and I just noticed that the main fuse has burned. Now we will be freezing for a few days before we get more oil...

But who cares, I have a beautiful chest! :D

Finally, Bakkery is glued together!

This Bakkery will be my practice-house as I've made soooo many mistakes with it, so please, don't look too closely :) The upstairs floor turned out nicely but the other two are really crappy, I'll do them over at some point - at least now if I want to do some tiling on the floor, I will buy ready made tiles now on. The tiling and lino floor are made of paint color samples, the store keeper is probably wondering how come the white and red samples are so popular... :D

It will be filled with stuff so you can't see the mistakes in the structure :D And I've found my most hated construction thing - stairs. I can tell you that they were a big pain to get fit in the house and one baluster had to be left out.

There's still tons of things missing like the skirting board, dadorails on the stairs, ceiling mouldings, lights - and in top of that the exterior... At least I've finally decided how it's going to look - dark gray ceiling, off whitish gray palstered stone, dark gray or black window frames. We'll see what kind of nightmare it's going to be...

Floor

The Bakkery's 2nd floors flooring is done!

Next project is to do tile flooring to the 1st floor and redo the shop areas floor as the paper looks so unreal and crappy.

I would be so happy if I could glue the house together this weekend.

Welcome Marit and Hissunkissun :)

Nice to have you here,

Ira

An idea for a new house...

or to be more precise, a roombox. We have 5 dogs of which 3 are Rhodesian Ridgebacks. One of them is called Gumu, but we also call him Mr. Pumppulsson. To you, who don't know the breed, I can tell you that Ridgebacks are probably the most greedy dog breed, they have bottomless stomachs and do anything to get some food. And food is anything that remotely seems like food. The only thing they won't eat are canned mushrooms - I think that there hase to be something seriously wrong with them, should I pass them also?

So, I would love to have a Mr. Pumppulsson's meat store with a miniature Gumu inside having his stomach full, blood dripping from his lips and chewed bones scattered on the floor. On the door there would be a sign - "Closed due owner ate everything" Now I just have to find some affordable dollmaker who could make a good replica of Mr. Pumppulsson, isn't he cute?

As a small boy

Very strange sleeping

or he's passed out and I have really bad feet... :D

Being nice to little brother

He really needs his own meat store, although I assume he would appreciate a real one much more :D

See ya!

New things for the houses

The kids had stolen the batteries from my camera so I couldn't take any pics until going to the store. Here are my new things, some of it I'm not sure in which house it's going, but I'm sure that everything will find its place :) Here's some of the stuff, there's more small things but I don't want to unpack them as I'm really good in loosing things :D

These tiny shells are so cute :)

I have made a bed, still needs some paintwork and matress etc.

And here are some real cupcakes which I did for my sons birthday and I can assure you that they were good, especially the icing - just normal vanilla-butter icing, but soooo good :)