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I cannot imagine ballet at 82! (Me) I would qiggle a metal putty knife blade under that window frame and keep tapping the handle with a hammer until the frame comes off. Then I'd sand that raised mess around where the frame was. If the frame doesn't survive, see about finding some 1/4" x 1/8" strip wood to make a better replacement. This is where a magnetic gluing jig comes in handy.
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For a while the hubs and I were drinking apple cider vinegar to help control the bad cholesterol, Two tablespoons in a small glass of apple juice will not burn your throat or make your kidneys mqad at you, but we found out it also comes in capsules, so we don't drink it ny more.
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The Off-Season: what do you do during nice weather?
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Neither the hubs nor I are gardeners, although I used to enjoy planting and tending veggies; but the local deer put the kibosh on that when we moved here. The neighbors warned us, so I just had my little compost pile going until I noticed it wasn't getting any bigger; the deer had decided it was their personal smorgasbord, so now everything goes into the garbage bag. When the weather turns nice we mostly hike a mile or two (at our age and after all my recent medical stuff it's what I can do) and later on we'll head to one of our local beaches and hike in the sand. -
Mistakes are the way we learn new skills when no other teacher is available.
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Welcome to the little family.
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Welcome to the little family, Lynn. Lots of our members have built or are building the Beacon Hill and will be able to share pointers with you.
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Arielle, never NEVER post your personal contact information on line where spammers can harvest it. People can contact you through our internal messaging feature. At the top of the page there's a little envelope icon; when a number appears beside it you will have a message. If you click on the three little dots at the top right of the box your post is in you should get an "edit" option in the drop down box that you can use to remove your email address from your post.
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Considering regular Barbies are 1:6 scale, you'd be absolutely right! I was pleasantly surprised to run across the three I found in 1:12.
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Kami, the first part of the sentece was next to the photo; I fixed it. It's a "stained glass" insert in that door, not Barbie; she's up in the attic/ nursery with the baby.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that 1:12 is loosely applied because they are dollhouses. In real life there are large and small extremes, but it's worse in miniature. This is why I wound up making nearly everything that goes into my houses (including upholstered furniture; old polyester neckties work really well for this). The 1:12 armchair my 1:12 Ken is sitting in doesn't show up too well: I found that the tie I used for my 1:24 Knowle settee worked just fine: I had enough of the tie to upholster two armchairs, but the second one doesn't show up at all. I found 1:12 Barbies in a local doll shop. The lady in front of the settee is one of my polymer clay and pipe cleaner concoctions. I dress my dolls myself, and the books with patterns fit scale 1:12 dolls.
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Welcome to the little family, Kate. The Building Team built and blogged the Glencroft back in 2005. I don't wire any of my houses, either; when I was a little girl most dollhouses weren't wired for lights, although my Keystone had a strategically placed appliance-type light bulb centrally located over the stairwell on the second floor that I could plug in if I wanted light when I played with it, which wasn't all that often because of where the wall outlet was in my room.
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You have five posts now, so you can make an album of your build.
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Ooo, "beating it into submission"; that sounds like great fun! Oh, and once the insert is dry on its frame I glue the frame to the wall with the wood glue and hold it in placde with painters' tape.
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Since it's mdf, in addition to the wood glue your friend might want to flip the house onto its wall tops and tack a few nails around the edges of the floors into the walls. One of the reasons I like tab & slot houses is that the floors fit into the walls.
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Since you have a pristine, NEW kit "for parts", if it were I, I would trace around the kit parts to make parts for any needing replacement on the "unstrategically built" house and save the pristine new parts to "strategically" (and correctly) build a pristine, NEW Harrison for myself and donate the rehab to Toys for Tots or some other charity.
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