Start of a new week.

Well, after some lawn mowing and laundry I had a wonderful find!  I found the windows to the dollhouse!  A totally unexpected place too- a huge pile of papers!!!

Now I just need some wood stain for the window frames!

Taken Apart-Now What?

Well I got that little piece of dollhouse furniture taken apart...now what will I do with it?  It is going to take some work to make it into a useable piece of furniture but I will figure something out.  It is a lot like the rest of the full size furniture in my sewing room.  Put together or remade into something else.  Remember those crates I had and my Dad put those old mismatched shutters on them for door?  And they turned out so cool.

I also cut some more of those jeans up.

A "Litttle" Sewing

Finally got the dollhouse curtains made!  Made a little green valance for the childs room today.  It is only hanging up temporaily as I am still unable to locate my windows to install!  I know I put them into an envelope and I just can't find them.  So they are up with some sticky tac for the time being. I would like to make a small quilt to hang on the wall next to the window.

This somewhat blurry photo is of the little chalkboard that I painted and added 3 dimensional stars to.  It will hang opposite the window on the wall next to the door. (I need to make some chalk for it.)

I also made the curtain for the kitchen.  It too is hung temporarily for the same reason.

This is an "ice chest" that I bought years ago and will attempt to make it into another cabinet/shelf for the sewing room.  I will keep you up on the progress I make with "bashing" it.

Time Flies

Well, it has been 2 weeks since I last posted!  Two weeks on the new job and still haven't figured out how to make the small amount of time at home work for me.  I have been doing a few things along the way.  Went on a weekend to Breezy Point.  Learned what a bildge pump was and how it works.

Saw another watertower in the shape of a bobber (is this one that you have Carol?).

Bought curtain fabric for the dollhouse childs room and kitchen.

I also have been cleaning and located a few more pieces that I had for the dollhouse.

Finished a small counted cross stitch piece at work during my lunch breaks.

And sewed together some upholstery samples that were too pretty to throw away.

I might make this into a fall table runner.

and then there is Pete...

Making a bed

First day of being fully employed again!  Didn't have much time tonight to do too much so I worked on making some linens for the toddler bed.  I would like to have an actual quilt on this bed but that will have to wait.  For the time being there is a mattress with a sheet, pillow and a "coverlet".  Not sure if the coverlet should be tucked in or hanging out...

Happy July 4th!

Did a bunch of yard work and made a little time for minitatures!  Painted the drawer handles and feet green (a couple of coats) and cut matching pieces of wallpaper to line the drawers in the dresser.

 Also, cut some 18" fat quarters and rolled them up and put them in a basket for the sewing room.  Found this little 3 legged "tipping" table for the house that I had made (simple and out of "punch out" plastic).

First Coat...

Got the first coat of paint on today.  Might have to do something different around those drawer pulls as the pink is still showing through.

Endings and Beginnings

After a storm tonight I bet there was a rainbow somewhere.  My folks are without power but we are fine.  There is truth that Friday is the best day of the weekend.  The entire 3 days loom ahead filled with anticipation and possibilities.  The house is decorated with buntings and flags ready to celebrate the 4th of July.  Instead of a movie I dug into my numerous boxes of dollhouse this and that.  I found the little dresser I bought on sale for the childrens room and the punch out snap together toddlers bed.  Here they are before anything is done to them.  I think I have my work cut out for me! The dresser colors have to be changed and the bed has to be painted and bedding made.

Busy Day.

My last day of  "underemployment" and I made good use of it. Drove to the folks house and my Mom and I pinned 3 of my quilt tops at her church.

This evening I worked on cutting fabric and filling the fabric cupboard for the sewingroom in the dollhouse.  I think that it turned out well.  The pieces are all cut to the size of one yard in miniature!

It was a good last day off.

Dollhouse Lights

Here are a couple of photos of the dollhouse with the lights turned on.

Aren't the lights just fabulous?!

Underemployed but productive, Tuesday

No paid work today but 8 hours working hard on the dollhouse has paid off!  All 5 rooms are ceiling and wallpapered!  I found the paper for the kitchen at Archivers and the dark green in the 3rd floor at Archivers to go with the print green paper I already had!
Pete was near all day too. 

All papered up!

My electrician, Micaela is installing 4 ceiling lights and a fireplace insert as I blog!!

How exciting is this!  Plus it has been raining for the last 2 hours or so-

 a lovely Tuesday afterall.

Monday Update

Lots of time has past and a lot has been accomplished.  Micaela and I finished the fence this weekend!!! Yeah!  Now we can do some camping.  Half of the fence that was broken has now been repaired and rebuilt and the 2nd half we will do this fall.

With the electricity in the house (thanks to Micaela) it was now time for me to get busy.  I flipped the house over and applied ceiling paper to all of the rooms.

Pete of course, was near as always.

Then I began to paper the rooms.

Master bedroom (in Mary Engelbreit paper with a border!), childs room with star paper, and the livingroom with a lovely, colonial print.  That is all so far...

If you look at the blog of 3/29/11 you will see a photo of the kitchen of the "someday" dollhouse.  Finally have all of the electrical pieces purchased and Micaela is going to do the wiring!!  Here is a photo of the entire backside of the unfinished house.

The plan is as follows: 3rd floor sewing/craft/storage room, 2nd floor master bedroom and childs room, 1st floor livingroom and kitchen.  I am going to "electrify" the fireplace so we put it in place to see where the wiring should go.

Oh, this wallpaper will be replaced by a more appropriate "period" wallpaper that I just purchased!  All of the furniture in this room is going to be handmade.

I also did some sewing tonight on the 2nd camping quilt.

One more day of unemployment.

Did an airport run with the folks this morning.  Easy to do not being employed...Got another set of pieces ready to be sewn into a "giant" block for the next camping quilt (and strung another string of beads).

Gave a second coat of paint to the small wall in the workshop so that is done.  Pulled out this mirror (from the workshop) which has a dresser that we are using as a TV stand.  Cleaned it up (thinking I would get rid of it) and I am not ready to part with it.  Decided to try something different and set it on the mantel.  I think it is really too big and too dark but Michael wants to leave it there for a while.  I think it would be cute back on the dresser and used in a guest room(someday).

Tonight I began to do some serious thinking about the dollhouse and where electrical outlets should go and how many.  I really have to figure out where furniture is going to go too.  So I dug out the kitchen furniture and figured out the placement.  Here is what the rough plan looks like in there.  It is an old fashioned kitchen.  I wonder if I could make a set of shelves to put by the cupboard for more storage.....

I could only locate this big chest for the studio on the 3rd level. 

Also met a friend at a little thrift shop this afternoon...

A reason to keep a neat sewingroom

Another day of underemployment.  Beautiful rain today and wonderful promise of spring.  Did lots today.  Planned electrical wiring of the dollhouse with Micaela.  She gave me a coupon for my birthday to wire the dollhouse before she leaves for Yellowstone in June.  We read the directions today and I have a list of things I have to do/figure out/purchase before the job can be done.  We had egg salad sandwiches for lunch.  She left to work on items for her next sale.  I turned to the last church quilt for this year.  Got the first border on it.  Tonight while picking up some piles look what I found

So, I made a nice bit of work for myself.  I had so little of the border fabric left but found with the 2 extra strips a little bit more.  Hopefully, there will be enough to add on.  Geeze....

Also worked on the secret project.

Also strung 2 more strands of beads and look how nicely they go with my fabric!

Now I just looked at the photo of the quilt top and I have made

 a sewing mistake too.   Can you spot it?

For goodness sake, I am going to have to redo that entire top....