Thursday 10th May 2012

Today I received all my wallpapers and flooring I need for my dollhouse. They are gorgeous, and huge sheets, they look better in real life than on a computer screen. here are some of them:

These sheets are for the ceilings, they will be plain white with rosettes in the middle.

This is the roof paper:

This is the terracotta tiles for the wash room floor. This is a plastic 3D effect, its brilliant.

I have dry built part of the basement, dry built is where you put it together without glue, just so you know where the pieces go together. It interlocks into grooves, the masking tape was put there to hold it in place until I could get the next piece on:

The room on the left is going to be the Maid and Cooks room, the middle room is the kitchen and the right hand room is the washroom, where the washing was done, and where they preserved foods. The door on the outside wall was where the deliveries and servants entered.

I now have the undercoat and fine sandpaper, so I am hoping to paint it this weekend. I will need about 2 coats of undercoat with a sand each time. I have to leave the edges, bare MDF, so the glue will adhere to it properly. Once it is undercoated I will start wallpapering and putting the flooring on, and then I will paint the outside of the house. This is going to take me a long time, but I am going to have fun doing it. I can't wait to start on it.

Wednesday 2nd May 2012

It has certainly been a while since I last updated this blog. I have been busy with personal issues, and my knitting and sewing have taken a back seat for a while, though not long I hope.

I enrolled in a course with Open Colleges on 12th March 2012 for a Certificate IV in Small Business Management. I am hoping this will help when I am finally able to start our hobby business. I originally thought after I enrolled that maybe I had taken on too much, that this was over my head and I wouldn't understand it.....but I have been pleasantly surprised at how much I really like it. So far I have submitted 3 assignments and received 3 High Distinction's. I am just so gobsmacked by that, I just find it hard to believe. I have submitted my 4th assignment and I have 2 more completed and ready to submit. I am waiting for Workbook 3 in Study Period 3.

While I have breaks in my study, because I can get through it so fast, I thought I would do something else to keep me busy. So I bought myself a long awaited and much loved Dollhouse from The Dolls House Emporium. It was delivered on 27th April 2012:

The dollhouse:






I have also bought the dolls to live in the house (the Policeman will patrol the outside):




















I also bought these to go in it:

I had to buy a new table to place this huge dollhouse on, which I will pick up tomorrow. This weekend I will make a start at putting the dollhouse together.

So for a while this blog will consist of study updates and updates about the dollhouse. My two greatest past times at the moment.