Thanksgiving week brings a dollhouse for the dollhouse and more

Thanksgiving week is upon us, and I will be hosting dinner this year, which

is pretty much the norm.  I have yet to set the table, but when I do I will bring out my

"good" camera and take some photos.  This year baby Reeve will join us all, and I just bought her

a booster seat so she can actually sit at the table instead of in her high chair.  She will bring

much joy to the celebration as all her uncles and aunts gather round.

Switching over to my dollhouse obsession, I have made much progress and will

share just a few highlights until I can write a full on dollhouse post.

 A friend gifted me an iron "faux bois" table for my potting room and I 

think it is the perfect addition.  On top of it is a French enamelware pitcher I 

created from paper and paint after fiddling around trying to copy an antique 

pitcher I picked up at Nora Murphy's book launch party in Connecticut last week.

So much to tell you, and the Nora story will be coming right after Thanksgiving,

as I dragged my pal Matthew Mead along to the party and then we went to Nora's house!

What a treat that was!!

 But I digress....

So the potting room has some rose prints on gilded

wood plaques that decorate the walls and an exact copy of 

my painted tarp that hangs over the utility sink!  I still need to do some trim around the 

window as you can see....but its the tiny embellishments that recreate special

things in my life that are extra fun to make for the dollhouse.

One thing I have been fantasizing about is having a dollhouse for the dollhouse.

After much deliberation, I decided to buy one instead of making a simple one.

Mostly because, well, I couldn't resist this amazing 1/144 scale teeny dollhouse!

 Incredibly elaborate, I found it online at Miniland.ca

There are several different styles of these extra tiny houses, and the scale

is what is correct for a dollhouse to be in a 1/12 scale house. Its 1/12 of 1/12th!!

Mind boggling to me....but this teeny house can open up and it can be decorated too,

which means quite likely at some point this 1/144 house will have a dollhouse of its own.

Imagine....it is NUTS. I know.

 So the dollhouse hallways are narrow and yet they needed something to make them

interesting.  The dollhouse fits perfectly there on display for the dollhouse residents to 

admire.  I created the curtain fabric using a color printer and fabric, printing off a pattern of

an Aubusson rug, then cutting it in half and stitching it up into a pair of panels. A copper wall

sconce was added to illuminate the dark hallway, so we could admire the fancy tiny dollhouse.

 The doorways were embellished with some frescos to add some pretty details and make it more 

fancy and yet still whimsical.  

After adding some printed designs I found online that were romantic, pretty 

and French looking, I handpainted  borders to give it a finished look.

I don't imagine a perfectly historical house.  It's got to have the wow and the whimsy

 and the shabby and the French and all the things I love. 

 That is what is so fun about decorating a dollhouse. 

 Its not real, so you can have anything you WANT!! 

 The next hallway task was to paint the unfinished dollhouse.  It ended up

looking like this, which I call "Very Versailles".

The gilding wax applied on the trim really gave it the wow factor

and it looks beautiful put back in the dollhouse landing on the second floor.

Warning: This blog will be containing a lot more dollhouse updates,

between Thanksgiving and Christmas!  

Until then, wishing all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving!