Well, my dollhouse renovation project is going slowly. Summertime: There are just too many happy diversions! Even so, I did power on to complete the first to-do item on my checklist: Stripping and refinishing the floors. After much research and anxiety about making *the right* decision, I decided to finish the floors with classic, orangey Bulls-Eye Amber Shellac. Bug poop! Yes: Bug poop, in its liquid form, looks great on my dollhouse floors. I LOVE how they turned out. I LOVE Amber Shellac!Heck yeah there is more →
Restoring and decorating my 1940s vintage dollhouse: My action plan
I’ve had my awesome circa-1940 vintage dollhouse for about six weeks now. I count that as one year in real-house time — and used those weeks to obsessively research and puzzle and quandary the approach to take take with the dollhouse. Now, I have begun my restoration process in earnest. Heck yeah there is more →
Vintage dollhouse experts: I need your advice — 3 questions
All this week, I have been overcome by an all-new mania: Miniature madness. To guide the remodel and decorating of this vintage dollhouse that I bought at a Lenox estate sale about a month ago, I launched my research in earnest this week. And in a flash, I was absolutely sucked into a whole new, wild and wonderful world! Like, seriously, I could not eat or sleep or do barely anything but search and research about the furnishings that can go into vintage dollhouses. I’m having So Much Fun, and I want to plow forward — but I have three important questions for seriously experienced dollhouse people. Can you help me? Heck yeah there is more →
Crushed to death under the weight of her own to-do list
aka “Do you want a cork for that whine?”
All my crazy is all my own fault. No matter which direction I turn, there are sirens calling, “Do this! Do that! You can do it! Take on another project! More! More! More!”Heck yeah there is more →
