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sorry did not say welcome to my new follower, so Hi and hope you enjoy my blog, unable to see my followers as for some reason they are not showing, will try again later, anyone else having this problem?

photos

Good morning all,
just a few photos as I promised, I still need to do a lot more to the upstairs hallway/library, I have got to make the floor, I may use cardboard cut into strips and stained, will try a bit first to see if I like It, I had brought some paper flooring which I painted with a varnish, but I did not like it, it looked like it was paper, so will be experimenting to see what I can do.

Yes the miniatures won, although I have cleaned out my kitchen cupboards and reorganised some of them, so I feel now that I am justified in working on my minis. well thats my excuse and I am sticking to it.

had a call from the hospital this morning and I am waiting for a echo scan appointment, hopefully that will be allright, I feel I am slowly recovering, still get very tired and have to take it easy, but I do feel a lot better than I did   a few weeks ago, see rambling again.
must stop that, my kids are always telling me that they get confused sometimes when we are talking because i will be talking about one thing and then talk about something else, must be the medication.

well enough here's the photos

upstairs hallway, stairs have not yet been fixed in place,
have got skirting/ coving and floor to do

entrance hall, without the stairs, the trunk still needs filling, and I want to make awalking stick holder
and maybe a few more bits

books made so far, just bits of balsa wood, cut to shape and covered with leather, some of the leather came from old purses and handbags, found very cheap in junk shops

happy weekend

Hi all
hope you have all had a good weekend, I have been busy working on my Victorian House, no pictures yet I'm afraid, will be adding some this coming week, so far I have decorated the upstairs hallway I am going to make this into a small library, so I have been making books from bits of balsa wood and covering them with leather, hence no pictures, me and my detail, hopefully tomorrow I can start to make the floor, we will see, my garden is calling out for attention, how is it when it rains weeds grow quickly, anyway we will see which wins tomorrow morning, with any luck it will be raining and that will make my mind up for me.
see you all soon

progress made with my house

 thought today I would put on some photos so you could see the progress I am making on   my Victorian house, this is my big project and I tend to do a bit at a time in between making my other miniatures,
so far I have completed the dining room, the kitchen and I am currently working on the entrance hall. for the hall I am currently making a large trunk, which I will be filling with clothes and other bits.
I have been working on this for nearly a year, this week I brought bits for the garden, I shall be having a garden next to it, but on eBay there was some bits that I could not resist, so they are in my box ready for when I build my garden.

I also made a bed. seem to have the bed bug at the moment. anyway this time I decided to make the bed itself. I am quite pleased with how it came out.

well enough of my rambling, look at the photos and see for your self.

the dining room

the hall

the kitchen

cook busy baking

my princess bed

bed forgot to post

oops in my excitement forgot to show bed,
thanks Norma, will try that it sounds easier than the way I did it.
hope you like this, I hand stitch all my work and you can remove the covers, I did stiffen the throw but it can be removed.

TUTORIAL,

In between resting I have been going into my work room and doing some more projects, I had a very tatty settee and chair that I had been looking at, I decided to give it a shabby chic look,
I forgot to take a photo of before, so I will try to describe it, it was a horrible brown colour with shaky legs, so I removed the old varnish, strengthened the legs, gave it all a base coat of white then painted it a light blue, it had a flat cushion, so i decided to make square cushions, i had never done this before but I was pleased with the end result.
below is a tutorial of how I made the cushions.

1. I measured the settee and chair, and made 3 box shapes from cardboard, I then covered the sides with my material, I did this to all the cushions,

2. I then sewed the top cover to the front of the cushion box.

I also filled the box shape with wadding.

3. I then stitched the material all round the sides and back to complete the cushion, I also added white braid to the seams to finish it off.

Showing all side stitched

finished cushions with white braid.

I hope you managed to understand how I did this, I am sure there is a easier way to do this.
I then finished off my settee and chair.

I hope you like it. i also finished off my bed, this started off as a gold bed, I repainted it black, leaving the knobs gold, I then made the covers and dressed the bed.

I am starting to feel much better now and I am gradually increasing the amount of time I spend in my work room, last week i had intended to put my bits on Ebay, but went out instead so hopefully this week end I will find the time.

 

Hi to my new followers, hope you enjoy my blog

Having another good day, must be the weather, have finished my owl school and my friend now wants to buy it, its difficult I find when selling to friends as I always feel I should let them have items cheaper, so I am trying to decide the best price,

also finished my baby shop, so now have enough to put on ebay this weekend,
pictures below of the shop, 

My little Yorkie, Freebie is feeling sorry for herself today she has had a haircut, sometimes she gets more pampering then me, she will be worse tomorrow I am going to bath her, that will be fun I get just as wet as she does.

anyway here are the pictures

well that's all for now, I have now got to decide what next to do, maybe I will work on my house for a change, see you all soon