Faith Bradford's Doll House, Revisited

I wish you all have a friend like my friend Patty.  Patty and I talk dollhouses and other things, and share lots, and convince each other we need a piece of Dolly Dear when...well...you know.  After I posted the last pictures, she realized she might have a baby walker that would work, and sent it to me.  Not only does it work, by golly, it is exact!!!!  Oh yay!!! Here's a long shot of the other side of the house- And here is today's project, lol. This is Faith's Drawing Room, decorated for Christmas.  Take a long look at the spinet.  I don't think it is red stain, and I think it only has 3 legs.  There is no good picture of it, but I have never seen anything like it for me to buy. I don't have much in the way of furniture for The Drawing Room, but I have the tree and presents- and a piano as a placeholder, and the fireplace...well, I do have a fair amount.  Need to start cutting the wallpaper!

Woo Hoo!  I am euphoric!  I bought a new laptop, and it only took me 4 weeks to find and remember the log-in for The Bradford House Blog.  Yay me!!!  It only took me 2 weeks to download the camera apps and figure them out, lol.  I still can't crop... Here are some photo updates: Night Nursery:  I took this photo a while ago, I now have the exact wardrobe in there.  The cradle is good enough for now (I did the gold paint), but I really need a baby walker instead of a play pen. I didn't seem to take a better photo of the library- and the ceiling light pieces are sitting here ready to be glued together.   Here's a shot of the house from standing back a little- Yes, I did put orange lights around it.  What can I say?  I got distracted by Halloween. My friend Patty sent me some perfect (or exact) accessories: A ship in a bottle The doll chair in Alice's room A Strombecker table for the Day...

Ahhh, the dog days of summer are over.  I really did just lie around for the month of August and in to September.  Now that the humidity and air quality is better, I've been working up a storm!   I primed the walls like Jodi suggested, then wallpapered the library.  I lucked in to a Lynnfield breakfront, with just a few wee flaws, and once I load it with books it will look wonderful.  With all of the furniture in front of it, you can't see the missing drawer!     I made 2 fl oor lamps from paper cups, like Faith did.  This one is not nearly as crooked as it looks here, although it is from a broken Strombecker (?) lamp.  The bubbles in the wallpaper the camera show are not visible to the naked eye, either.   I had the darker blue dotted swiss and used it instead of buying lighter.  Works well with the bedspreads.  You can see I found 2 matching Lynnfield/ Sonia Messer beds to use as placeholders....

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...