I've been working on a few different things lately; the folks got an old family piano restored, so I used dadas dollhouse piano tutorial as a base to make my version of it. Here is the original:

My version, staged in the parlor of the country house (Laurel bash):

A comparison of the one built straight from the tutorial, and the bashed model. I used dowel and foamboard, with cardstock overlay, to make the inset end-pieces. It took me a couple weekends to make, all told.

I didn't quite get the color right, but close. The country house finally got its porch planks installed:

To make a quilt for the country house, I spent a weekend trying something I've been meaning to try for years now-- English Paper Piecing (EPP), with 1/2"-sided hexagons. I mean to try smaller hexies next time; this one was just practice!

Here's what the back-side looks like, with all the papers still in.

Here I have removed all the papers.

I backed it with some very thin muslin that my mother had sent me. I didn't quilt it; I'll quilt the tinier one when I make it.

It is very time-consuming, not to say back-breaking, eye-twisting, and finger-stiffening!

The San Fran is coming along; I primed the inside:

The pieced-together walls are not flat and smooth on the inside, and so wallpaper won't lie nicely on them (instead you'll see every line). So I need to make cardboard templates to glue the wallpaper onto.

Clamping the third floor on (somehow something always get out of square!):

Here I am separating out the trims that will go over and under the exterior windows; must cut 30 of em!