Happy Holidays 2014

Happy Holidays!

I sincerely hope that 2015 brings everyone peace, good fortune and especially more cool minis and modern structures. I know that I have been missing from the miniature community for several months, but hope to return to building small worlds and reading the blogs. I started a new job this year at an interior design firm and it's been an amazing, challenging and busy ride. I guess because this new gig offers me a creative outlet, it has taken a bite out of my available time and focus on the 1:12. However, I'll be back. I know, I know--famous last words...

Sleeping In The Bennett House

 

 

The Goods: Bed is Orla Kiely; designer pillows are PRD; bolsters are Bespaq; chair is Reac Japan; art mural is David Choe; framed art is DCWV; All accessories are Ray Storey, brinca dada, Lundby, Re-Ment, AG Minis, miWorld, and random but common finds from hobby and craft stores.

Oh Deer...

 

I put together a restaurant dining room scene in the Bennett House. My oldest child and I cobbled together the awful "swanky" restaurant name = Sky Stag. It makes us chuckle.

Putting together the Bennett House was a bit of a challenge. Not because the parts weren't labeled. Not because the diagram of parts didn't always look like the parts. The only real issue I encountered while building this dollhouse was removing the paper mask from the acrylic windows. The stuff just would not come off. I first used professional remover...then I used standard sticky residue remover...then I had to just let the stuff soak in a bath of shea butter baby oil. And it was the oil bath that finally got the mask to relent.

After the oil bath, I was able to peel/roll the mask back in large sheets, but not all of it would come off completely. There are some places where the mask came into contact with the glue used to adhere the acrylic windows to the frame. I used tweezers to try and remove those stuck pieces. In the end, I was not able to get the clean finish that I would prefer. The local plastics shop said they could make me all new windows. If I keep this house, I may have to take them up on that offer.

The Goods: Stag head is Dotsan; seating pieces are Urban Girl Dollhouse and Brinca Dada covered in Restoration Hardware's Italian Vintage Baroque fabric; tables are Re-Ment and MegaHouse; all accessories are LiLu, PRD Miniatures, and common finds from hobby and craft stores.