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Hello, Shellie has this house for sale now. She just listed it in her email newsletter for $5,000 OBO. I've seen it and it's huge and lovely. Out of my price range at the moment.

HI Erin! I love Re-Ment too. Scale-wise it's mostly closer to 1:6 playscale, but I don't let that stop me. Some of the foods are really easy to mix in, like fish, breads, baked goods. There are also other great brands that are similar to Rement like Megahouse, Bandai, T is for Candy...EBay is a good place to track those down. Enjoy! Jenny

A while back I was looking at some of those roomboxes. One of the ebay sellers had links to some Youtube-like videos (it was not actually Youtube). The videos were all in Chinese, but it was clear enough to see what you needed to do. I have no clue who that seller was and I didn't bookmark the channel. Maybe try searching to see what you're getting in to?

Hi Briana! I'm going to the San Jose show. I've been dying to go for years, and this time I'm going with a brand new baby in tow! I just reserved the hotel room using the group rate...don't forget to do that. It's $100 less per night than any other online site I found. I'm also planning on doing the coppersmithing workshop. It looks pretty good!

Hi Holly, I sent you a PM about the house. Jenny

Please share when you can It's always fun to see how things turn out for different people.

I think have one of these hiding in a closet. I'll take a look tonight.

MDF is rough on saws. Definitely use power tools, do it outside, and wear a mask so you don't sniff the saw dust.

Hi Lilith, I have made both houses by GL and RGT. As mentioned before the GL houses are thinner plywood, but the tab-slot construction can be awkward if they are cut slightly off. The RGT houses come in smooth or milled MDF or plywood. They are heavy! I like a lot of the RGT houses just for their design. Both have their pros and cons. I've been making houses for my kids and it really comes down to sturdiness for me. The heavy RGT house is going to stay on the table for my daughter (who can be a bit rough). It won't get knocked over and broken trim like my Willowcrest. Good luck choosing!

What fantastic news! Thanks for letting us all know.

Hi Emily, another thing you can try is to paint the wall a base color then glue crumpled tissue paper on top. I'm using this to simulate stucco on my modern house build. I made sure to have big creases but it's easy to smooth it more to look closer to textured drywall. I used Mod Podge so it has some light sheen, but you could easily apply flat interior latex paint on top if you want. Here's an example from my build. Good luck!

Yes, any info on Jack Chasteen would be appreciated. I bought a lovely signed half scale bed on Ebay a while back. It's just the frame so I'll have to come up with bedding. But it looks like really good wood, maybe cherry or light mahogany or some exotic that is in that color family.

All the crazy junk from the wallpaper lady is exactly why I end up doing things myself. I'm not a total perfectionist, but I'm close. Also I prefer to botch something myself than pay someone else to screw it up for me. If it's really that bad, you could fire her midway and take over yourself.

I miss film canisters. I used to work at a 1-hour photo shop in school and I loved the smell of film! The other day I was thinking about using the gray Kodak tops for barstools.

With all the talk about Shapeways, maybe someone can design a couple nice contemporary toilets (compact, elongated, tankless, etc) that can be 3D printed? Hello to any CAD designers out there!

I don't like how most of things out of plastic look like junky plastic. Or things with labels are often blurry and crooked. My daughter actually found a pretty good fish bowl at Michaels, after sifting through the ones that had huge (out of scale) bubbles, deformed fish, or cracked glass bowls.

I second Kelly's vote for a 1:12 Fairfield kit. I love that one. As for shingles and siding, I'm kind of split. It seems like there are true kid-friendly beginner kits and those (Primrose, Orchid, so on) are great to have everything you need in one box. On the other hand, the rest of the houses seem to work out well enough without the shingles or siding included since so many of us use different finishing techniques. I like the idea of having a completer or upgrade finishing set to go along with the basic house set, then we could choose different shingles, such as fishscale or square or another shape.

I'm certainly no paperclay expert, but I've been using it lately for a modern house as exterior and carving it to look like brick. I found the coolest thing at Michaels though. They have some fondant molds in the cake decorating aisle. I found one that looks like brick in a running bond pattern. It's just a tad on the small size and not to scale, but I'm thinking of using it on my next project. It may be small enough to pass as subway tile. This is what the mold looks like: http://www.gartnerstudios.com/shop/dufftm-brick-woodgraintexture-tiles.html

Thanks to everyone for sharing the photos. I have a Willowcrest and the kitchen it very similar to the BH. I've been putting off adding curtains and extra details for years and seeing these are giving me some oomph to just do it.

Lucky you! Good luck rehabbing it!

Yes to what everyone else has said. As for spray glue, don't use it. I tried it, but it was not good. Once the paper sticks, it's stuck, There is no adjusting it once it touches and I've even had it lose its stick after a few years so I have some peeling corners. Ugh.