SusannaT Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 I got my copy today. :lol: This book is JAM PACKED with information and projects! I love how it is divided into sections by rooms: The Hallway, The Living Room, The Kitchen and The Bedroom. Very entertaining to read and I really enjoy the clear directions with lots of photos. Makes for less aggravating mistakes... wink wink. 40+ projects ranging from a cactus to a gas cooker. I know I will be using this book a lot. One of the first things I want to make is the refrigerator, and the cactus, shopping trolley, magazine rack, washboard and wringer, clothes rack, hessian oven gloves, kitchen canisters... heeeee....! Now if I only had more hours in the day. This working thing is cutting into my mini time. And while I do love the clean lines of the kitchen cupboards in the book, I still think that Mary likes her old furniture... her daughter however, is more the modern woman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 This sounds like a GREAT book! I just ordered one from BN.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymakesstuff2 Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Oooooooo Awwwwww I love the music from that time period! This is a book I will look into soon Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet2Dawn Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Where did you get the book might I ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Where did you get the book might I ask? Here is the listing on Amazon: Thirties & Forties Miniatures in 1:12 Scale by Jane Harrop (Paperback - Oct 1, 2007)Buy new: $19.95 $13.57 Available for Pre-orderEligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heidiiiii Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Here is her website! Jane Harrop Miniatures Love love that book.. want one but cant do that now.. Oh no...i looked! She has stuff for sale... Kits. Here is my mini christmas list for anyone that is interested..ROFL! the carpet sweeper artists easel set library steps doll cradle the miniature studio! the artist table I think that is about it. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallowell Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Wow, this looks like a must have to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdmom Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Great book. Great site. I'm going to try to do the online workshop http://sahmc.homestead.com/November.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missymew Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Looks like a "must have" book. Thanks for letting us know. -Susanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just One More Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Just ordered the book from Amazon but won't get it til October. I have a 1940's doll house I furnished from memory. This book looks like it will have lots of things I can make for it. The 40's was my favorite time. I love all the old movies like "Since You Went Away". Can't wait to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I have already asked DH to order it for me. I grew up during the '40s and it fascinates me now how much of that stuff is now considered "antique"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Holly, does this mean we are antiques too? I grew up in the 40's too. And remember it quite well. Those were good years though weren't they? I remember things with nostalgia and sadness that my own children didn't grow up then as well. It was a far simpler life in many ways. Wolfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Holly, does this mean we are antiques too? I grew up in the 40's too. And remember it quite well. Those were good years though weren't they? I remember things with nostalgia and sadness that my own children didn't grow up then as well. It was a far simpler life in many ways. Wolfie I sincerely hope so, seeing as antiques' value appreciates with advancing age. I don't miss a lot of things, like watching my DM & her mom breaking those little yellow capsules to dye the margarine yellow (because the dairy farmers' lobby got the USDA to forbid margarine manufacturers to color it to look like butter). We worked our butts off to keep our own children's lives as simple and uncluttered as ours were. I do miss the education we received and that I had to tutor our own kids to get them to that level, as well. But I can't imagine any members of subsequent generations willingly going back to a world without computers and i-phones and digital HDTV satellite connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Jane Harrop is excellent at making and distressing furniture, I will be getting this book too. I have attended her miniature classes for two years now and they will be starting again on the 18th September so I made sure I would be booked in for that. She's a lovely person too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusannaT Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 Anya... you are making me think of catching a flight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet2Dawn Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Okay book and a few of her kits on my wish list. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Ah yes, Holly, the great oleo. I do remember that. However we made our own butter as we lived on a farm just outside of Bangor and again Augusta, Maine. Mom did all that by hand in a small churn. Sometimes, I would love to go back. I can still smell mama's doughnuts frying, and her bread was to die for. She still made her own bread right up until a few weeks before she had to go into the nursing home. She was feisty at 96. I miss her homey foods she could whip up without a receipe. And my dad made the best dessert ever, butterscotch upsidedown pudding - a concoction I could never receate because he never measured anything just used his hands to measure. A few handfuls of this, a couple of that, 2 or 3 eggs, etc.. I sure would love to get my hands on that book though. It would probably make me cry. It would remind me of home so much. Wolfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmesue Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 You were lucky living on the farm, butter was rationed so Grandma stocked up every chance she got that she had the stamps & the grocer had the butter, for her holiday baking, and for everyday we had (yuck!) margarine. I want the book, too. I want to make the Lily into a Tuscan villa, and I think a post-WWII decor would work at least as will as As You Like It. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heidiiiii Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Okay, I was born in 1969 but both my parents were 46 when they had me so I so loved hearing their stories from back then. My mom called it Oleo even when it wasnt Oleo anymore. In the winte rmy mom would leave the milk delivery out a lil longer so it would freeze. Then she would pour off the cream on top. Her mom had a cow she was so proud of.. Dad lived on a chicken farm. He said you got a new pair of shoes in the fall and they lasted you until the summer and then you went barefoot. Both of them lived and grew up in the Boston area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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