A Porch with a Horrible Window

I have decided that choosing the Puritan for my first miniature house project was a REALLY BIG MISTAKE.  I should have started with, oh I don't know, a one room cottage.  Or at least a small kit house that came with all the components.

Over the past week or so I have been working on the porch.  I got all the siding on and painted.  Today I started working on the windows.  One of the things that makes this plan complicated is the fact that there is a triple window on the sunroom.  Since there aren't any triple windows to buy, I had to bash it.  I had a double window and a single window.  I cut one side off each.  The wood splintered when I cut it and the pieces did not fit together well.  Also, my double window was a smidge shorter than the single.  It looked terrible!

After some thought, I decided to cut off the top layer of trim on each piece.  I cut a new piece to replace what I cut off and to cover the gap.  Then I cut the pieces that went under the window off and replaced them with one solid piece.

There was a big gap on the inside that I had to fill with wood filler.  Hopefully once it's all painted it won't look too bad.

Painting and Flooring

The neighbor painted the outside of his house today.   He was pretty excited to get it done and eager to start building furniture.

My house is coming along.  All the rest of the exterior pieces have been cut.  They just need to be sanded, primed and  attached to the house with hinges.  I make it sound so easy, right?

I cut out a piece of hex tile for the bathroom floor.  When I bought it (on-line because there is not much available in 1/2" scale locally) the website did not state the tile measurements.  I was hoping for penny tile but they work out to be about 3".  I guess it will have to do.  I spread spackle mixed with gray paint over the whole thing to look like grout and then wiped it off.  It came out really grungy looking.  It would be perfect if that's the look I was going for!   However, none of the rest of the house has been aged or grunged.....

Bedcover

So today hubby but was wearing this shirt with this awesome teensy houndstooth-like print.

It's a relatively new shirt and I'm like nice shirt.  But I look closer, at the print.  I love houndstooth! So I say "Hey, when that shirt shrinks or gets stained or something, can I have it?"

Of course he wonders why.  I fess up.  " Because it would make an awesome print for my dollhouse!"  

And Lolly says "What would you do with it?  Make a table cloth out of it?"

"No," I replied.  "It would make an awesome bedcover!"

Hubby is all " It's not a bedcover!"

" Yes it is," I replied.  "With pink sheets."

And he says "It's a shirt!"

"Okay," I say. "well the next time you wear that to work, remember, it's a bedcover.  With pink sheets."

I mean really - can't you just PICTURE it?  So I offered to do his laundry for him next week.  I don't know why he said no....

Knitty Griity Hat

The ladies at my local yarn store showed me how to seam my hat from Knitty Gritty.  I followed the  directions to knit a hat for an infant, but I guess my stitches are big because it came out child-sized.

I took a short Knitty Gritty break to crochet a toy for the cat.  I think he liked it.

Big Changes in Little Houses

Well, the house next door went up for sale.  I was told that Lolly decided she doesn't want to own a house.  And if she decides she wants one, it will be a modern one. Her little brother was eager to take over and has already painted all the rooms.

The Puritan has been in the shop since last weekend waiting for the rest of the roof and the dormers.  I had placed an order with Superior Dollhouse for windows and another door and it was all wrong!  I don't know what I was thinking.  I ordered 3 single windows instead of 1 and no doubles. Which may be okay because it turns out I may need more doubles than I thought.  I was thinking the house only has a dormer on the front but it might have one on the back too.  Also, the door doesn't fit the door opening.  I'm not sure why.  I believe the door I already have, and the one I just received are both Houseworks doors but one is narrower than the other.  By the time I finish this house, I will have enough extra windows and doors for another house!  Unfortunately, I don't think Hubby will have time to build another one any time soon!

 

I did do one little project when Lolly had the air-dry clay out yesterday.  I made a little fairy tree sculpture.  It is 5/8" tall, which is teeny but actually probably too big for the house.  That would be the equivalent of 1 1/2 feet tall!

 

 

Another mini room done!

I finally got the wallpaper sized correctly and printed out.  I had used Modge Podge before and it yellowed the paper so this time I used a spray Krylon sealer.  The wallpaper was printed on a thicker paper so I used Aleene's Tacky Glue to glue it in.  I cut all the trim, painted and installed it.  Another room done!

I also got the door trim for two of the hallway doors done.

And painted the bathroom a pale pink.

 

Window Mullions

It was another early morning yesterday, but thankfully not a 4:00 am morning!
I worked on window mullions.  Working with those tiny pieces was a challenge!  I got three windows done.

That is the dining room window but they all look the same.

Inside view.

While I was doing that, Lolly started painting the interior of her house.  I liked the color she chose for her living room!

After that I made the mistake of trying to fix the wallpaper in one of the upstairs bedrooms.  I had put it down with double-sided tape and it wasn't sticking in one section.  I tried to pull it up to glue it down instead and ended up tearing the paper from 3 different walls!  So then I went to reprint it only to realize I had never saved the file when I did it the first time.  I don't have a good program for resizing and editing pictures, or maybe I just don't know how to use what I have.  So I spent a good hour resizing and printing and still never came up with the right size.