Faith Bradford's Doll House, Revisited

I am excited to reveal a 97% finished  laundry.  The first photo is from Mr. Bird's book, the second photo is my reconstruction.   Oops, right now I will go turn the mangle around. I need a bigger laundry basket, about 3 inches at the bottom.  I need a true vintage bike, and a big white bowl for the blanket chest.  I need a wide angle lens, too, lol.  There is an ironing board back in the corner, but I need a longer one so you can see the top.  I need to cut a piece of the flooring into a rug, but see below,  Last but not least, I need a washboard for the sink.  You'd think they would be a dime a dozen, but I can't find one with a metal 'board'. ALL GOOD!!! The bad and the ugly go together. We have had more humidity at my house in Maine than I can remember.  The heat has not been intolerable, but the humidity is over-powering.  Look what has happened- There are 3 rooms using the same wallpaper, and t...

Took some photos today of the Third and Fourth floors.  For these rooms it is pretty much sewing textiles and filling in details.  Enjoy!

I will need 3 of these, but then 2 more that are just the lower part.  I have looked and looked and I have no idea what this lamp is made from.     Nurses room in my house is 14 inches wide.  Knowing that the camera and book pages distort, I think the widest part of the light fixture- at the join- is 1/8 the width of the room.  That makes the openings of the 2 items glued together somewhere in the 1.75- 2 inch diameter. I looked at dollhouse compotes for the piece attached to the ceiling, but they are too small.  There is such a thing as egg cups for dolls, but they didn't feel right.  Regular sized egg cups are too big, I think. The bottom half looks like the top to a baby bottle, but a real baby bottle wouldn't have the sticking up (or in this case sticking down) part. What the heck are these things???? Help!  Any ideas?

I am moving along slowly in the hot weather.  I was going to show you how I made some of the lights- but really?  You probably just want to see pictures- One fake pearl glued to one silver pony bead then the plastic bead painted silver.  Black cord and thin jewelry chain glued to pony bead.  Measured in room, then cut and a silver bead cap slid on- with the cup portion facing the ceiling.  Wax mushed in to cup, tacky glue around the edges, prayers said, then pushed onto beam. Here are some more of the upper rooms-   Christopher and Robin's overhead light is a plastic vitamin jar lid with a vintage dollhouse light bulb set in a hole in the middle, then painted with gold paint.  It took 2 coats of gold since the gold sort of separated on the plastic.  Faith probably had it easier since she no doubt used metal lids. Lots more to be done in the attic... I have to go to the builder waving dollar bills to see if I can entic...