Boy-oh-boy, time is getting away from me. Well I have been piddling around with both the Willowcrest and the San Fran, because I want to get them in the mail for Christmas; I finished routing the lighting in the Willowcrest, including a lightbulb in the bathroom closet (this is before I glued in the piece that encloses the closet):

I also finished up the kitchen, using my paint-sand mixture leftover from the Buttercup. I am very disappointed in the tiny-yellow-checked cloth; I was very tickled when I found it at Joann's and didn't look closely enough when I was buying it, because this is NOT 100%-cotton...! I tried four different kinds of Aileen's tacky, and quick-grab barely manages to tack the cloth to itself. It fought me every step of the way. Very disappointing, but a lesson-learned to always check the fine print...

Also finally got around to buying some more quarter-round and assembled my base; glued the house on and have been affixing porch trim pieces. Also here is what the attic room looks like so far; need to trim up the stairwell but I have been having trouble telling apart my trim for the Willowcrest and for the San Fran and have been mixing them up because the off-white paint colors are so similar...! (So I think I accidentally stole Willowcrest stairwell trim pieces for the San Fran.)

So now the San Fran: I finally figured out what to do about all the wiring that was billowing out the back; I drilled some holes in the MDF of the back base and stuffed everything in under the house. Very much neater now. There is a slot that you can put your finger in to switch on the power strip.

I went back and forth about the green room curtains-- I had prepared the long olive-green drape pieces about a year ago, but in arranging them from the pelmet with spray starch, they wrinkled up really easily. (Had the same problem with this cloth in the Westville parlor drape assemblies-- it's really thin cloth.) So I made some runners to hide the wrinklies and add some visual interest-- I think I need to tack those upper runners down a bit so they don't stick out so much.

The living room is one of my favorite rooms in this house-- partly because I spent so much time and stained wood on it...!

I am waffling about the window treatments in the rest of the house. If I get too crazy with them, it'll hide my "stained-glass" that I spent SO much time on, not to mention it'll be difficult to run the window sashes up and down (the lower ones do move- they're not fixed in place). What to do, what to do...

Well while I ponder on that, I will get busy finishing the base of the San Fran, and the shingling on the Willowcrest. Have got to get that shingling over with already.