My Miniature Madness Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 1 hour ago, Samusa said: Oh dear, I feel you might be heading to where I was a couple of weeks ago.. One of the only great things about livings somewhere with virtually no seasons.. is SAD isn't an issue.. I like your fix for it though Jodi! Amazing how a little mini shopping picks you up! If you have the room, the more projects the merrier I say. Just give those other kits a pep talk and tell them their time will come. Those papers look so pretty.. just the thing to give you some motivation. And, I don't know what you are talking about with needing a win.. girl, everthing you make is a win. You do fabulous work! I'm always in awe... do not doubt yourself! Here's some more hugs. (((hugs))) (((hugs))) (((hugs))) (((hugs))) Thank you my friend! If we live closer to each other, we could get into all kinds of mini trouble together! You've brightened my day and put a smile on my face! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueirishmoon Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Of course those papers go together! So long as they have just one color in common, you can mix and match patterns with abandon. Go to it and have fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 2 hours ago, Samusa said: Karin, are you anywhere near Park City? We go there every year for a ski trip. Cute emoji lol, yes we're just over the hill from PC That's cool that you get that opportunity every year, Utah has so much beauty, and such diverse beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 6 hours ago, havanaholly said: Get well soon, sweetheart, and mini thanks for adding Karin's flower tutorils to our pinned section! Thank you Holly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 5 hours ago, WyckedWood said: Cute emoji lol, yes we're just over the hill from PC That's cool that you get that opportunity every year, Utah has so much beauty, and such diverse beauty. Yes, we love it there Karin.. so much so, we hope to retire there one day. I'm a big fan of high desert terrain. But I do love the canyons as well.. so majestic. Paticularly the Cottonwood canyons. We often scoot over to Alta or Solitude for the day. Just to change it up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklepuppies Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 This morning I went to the Atlanta Miniature Show. That's always so much fun. There's a lady that makes the most amazing cakes and gingerbread houses. I bought a few things from her last year, and some more today. It was so hard to choose! But I did get a gingerbread house display, a tree, and a gingerbread spoon. I made a gingerbread house from a Buttercup years ago, but never filled it. I'm hoping these new goodies will motivate me. And to I help more, I bought a resin Santa and Mrs. Claus. I also found the cutest wallpaper, red stripes with candy canes hearts as a border. So Gingerbread Buttercup may get some new paper. I also visited Cindy Crane, and got a couple cute kits and papers for decoupage. And lastly, I got some nice wood trims, and dug through a box of vintage papers, and got a few neat things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgwyn Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Very cute, it sounds like you had fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Sounds fun, cute stuff too...so lucky to have a show near you..I'd settle for a shop, it's been years since I've had an opportunity to browse through a dollhouse shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Delightful finds @sparklepuppies. Looking forward to seeing the results of your motivation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklepuppies Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Haha! Thanks, me too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 As I work my way through the mountain of packing boxes, I'm finding several that are labeled Beacon Hill something: accessories, architectural elements, furnishings, etc. Plus wood sheets taped together, also marked Beacon Hill. I swear this house has been generating extra parts just to annoy me! Can't wait to get the craft room organized enough to clear a work surface and get back to it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I recently bought an ikea shelving/cubby hole unit thingy that has helped so much in organizing my craft room. Have fun Kathie I pulled out all of the doll kits I've been collecting lately...it's really surprising how much difference there is in size when these are all 1/12 adult females. I don't think I could even use them in the same house, there is such wild size difference. Kind of disappointing but live and learn. Anyway, started making up a Mrs Claus that I had promised to my Mom. It's a resin kit that I'm zero percent thrilled with. Will only be buying porcelain from now on. The resin is extremely challenging to paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 If you clean the resin with isopropyl alcohol to remove the oils from your hands you ought to be able to paint the resin with acrylics or oil paints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Thanks Holly, the kit gives instructions for cleaning and then instructions for painting in acrylic washes to achieve flesh tone. The problem I'm having is this is an older woman sculpt and the washes of acrylic are settling into her wrinkles and looking like pancake makeup even with a thin wash of color. What I would like to do is start over but I'm not sure how to remove what I've done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Crisis averted...I was able to use a nail polish remover wipe to remove all of the acrylic paint. Now back to square one.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Thin the acrylic paint, real old women's wrinkles show up because of shadows (as I see every time I look in a mirror), and the bit of pigment settling in the cracks shows that. I like to make my dolls from polymer clay because I can mold the skin pigment into the clay whilst I sculpt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grazhina Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I got a yen to do a front opening dollhouse to display some of my stash of furnishings. I saw Sid Cooke's Highgate doll house and fell in love, grit my teeth and checked to see what shipping was to the US. Shipping was over $300!. I decided that maybe I should get out my drawing board and start on my own version of a similar town house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, grazhina said: I got a yen to do a front opening dollhouse to display some of my stash of furnishings. I saw Sid Cooke's Highgate doll house and fell in love, grit my teeth and checked to see what shipping was to the US. Shipping was over $300!. I decided that maybe I should get out my drawing board and start on my own version of a similar town house. Considering what an awesome scratch builder you are, I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Grazhina I wish I had those kinds of skills, sounds like a neat project. Thanks for trying to help me Holly, my attempts today have gone better although I've gone through an entire package of single use fingernail polish remover wipes. I went back with a lighter touch, that's usually my problem with anything, I get too heavy handed. I switched to chalk pastels for skin tone and that was much better. One of my other problems is I take pictures with my phone and zoom in more than the human eye would ever see and obsess over tiny little imperfections and redo and redo...the wrinkles in her skin are catching everything...lashes, shadow etc...nothing is going on smoothly and gliding like it did for me on porcelain (Gertie, who also had wrinkles didn't give me this much trouble). I think I have her paint finished tho, pretty happy with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Well then. Once I get resettled I'll have plenty to do. I just pulled out my treasure stash. 14 kits unopened waiting for me. Gonna have to find a huge house in Mississippi. Lol. 2 unfinished kits. (One is a "bash" of 2 Tennyson houses that just stopped talking to me ). AND. I have enough "body parts" to build a really big house. Think Winchester mansion........ hum??? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 I visited Winchester mansion, so cool..would make a fun project. I loved the story of some of the grand rooms being closed off permanently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Lawanda, DH had a workshop built for me to have somewhere to build & make godawful messy (which it is) so Id have the house for the "finished" houses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thimble Hall Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Coming along nicely with my Sugarplum house for my woodcutter, the wood is much thinner than the Fairfield which surprised me, but I have a wood floor put in and am just thinking about ceilings right now 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 18 minutes ago, Jeannine said: ...Sugarplum house for my woodcutter, the wood is much thinner than the Fairfield... How strange! My Fairfields' wood was the same thickness as all the other Greenleaf kits I've built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grazhina Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 I spent the afternoon working on the plan for a Victorian style townhouse. Most of the time was trying to figure out what size the bay window should be. Spent a lot of time looking at dollhouse bay windows online, thinking it would be way easier to buy one than make it, but of course, none of them were quite right. Except for cutting little block houses, I've never had to do angled cuts on my band saw and I'm agonizing that I'll be cutting a lot of plywood into useless pieces because I can't get the angles just right. When you draw a 1"scale house plan on paper it looks soooo much bigger than you thought it would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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