An Update on Cora's house

Yesterday.... I had Big plans for what I wanted to do today..... But I'm still having some health issues and didn't wake up until after 3 this afternoon. And about the only thing I care to do is lie here and watch tv (btw.... we're, the bf and I, are watching What's Eating Gilbert Grape... one of our favorite movies.) ....So to bring myself out of my funk- I thought I'd share with you what I got done Thursday evening.....

If you remember..... Otis had been in here and had made a mess of the whole house. I think I have fixed this problem now.... but he's a smart cat and always finds away around what I've done.... So I've been putting the house back together.... but I've packed up a lot of the accessories until I can 'glue/stick' everything down.

So.... Here's the living room. The couch began as a pink couch and when Cora got her first dollhouse- we painted it black. Then when we built this house we decided to use this material- I'm still pleased with how it came out! The big cabinet on the right is one i had in my dollhouse as a kid... One day it will get filled, lol. Let's see.... I built the coffee table myself and the 'glass' end table in between the 2 chairs is actually an old fauctet knob.

And here's her naked dining room.... One day I'd like to repaint the table and cabinet cause they look horrible in pictures. In person it's not that bright.

In this house..... it's always Christmas, so I did put the tree and presents back in.

Here's one of the few mini paintings I have done..... It hangs in her dining room.

I also put the kitchen back together.... and kept everything in it. How would it be a pineapple kitchen with no pineapples? When I was cleaning.... it brought back lots of good memories on how everyone helped me to finish this room! I don't know if I can ever thank All of you enough!

The last room I put back together was the pink room. Otis had broke the bed so I had to glue it back together. One day.... I need to finish this room. I have so much to hang on the walls.... just haven't got around to it yet.

One of my favorite scenes in her house is this bed. I have a tray with nail stuff (cotton balls, nail polish and finger nail fillers) and then up front are a pair of pjs that once was a scrapbook sticker. I folded them up and wrapped a ribbon around them. The white blanket is one that my Mom made for this house.... and that dingy pillow in the back was one of my barbie pillows from when I was a kid. LOL... I really need to wash it, huh!

I'm hoping this summer we can finish this house..... but I'm afraid Cora has lost interest. She'll be 14 next week.... and well.... You know how that works.... Oh well.... I'll keep plugging away at it and one day she'll come back around. Right?

.....until next time...........

More Pictures

I hope you aren't tired of the flower pictures yet....
Here's a custom birdhouse I recently finished. It's a tiny birdhouse.... it's a little under 3/4 of an inch! I did a set of these, and while outside getting pictures.... Well, You know me... I had to play in the garden, too!

And here's a picture of the big order I just finished! Feels good to know it's done.... And you can see the different sizes of birdhouses I make, too! I like having them in all kinds of sizes:)

....and my other daylilies have started to bloom:) I've been growing these since I moved in- about 9 years now! I started with 3 bulbs... and now over 100 bloom at a time!

They're just beautiful! I told the bf if we ever get out of here.... I'm bring them with me!

Thought this picture was interesting..... I like the flower on the left... It hasn't opened up all the way yet... and it reminds me of a dancer. Daylilies are so interesting to me... I think it's so neat how they bloom for a day, and then die... And I'd swear each time you look at it, they look different. And then they're gone..... and then tomorrow another one will begin this dance, as I call it. I love the little things in life:)

Hope all is well out there...... I'm still dizzy here, lol. I guess I shouldn't laugh but what else can I do but suck it up. Now that I'm done with the 'big' orders.... I'm ready to move onto the new project.... and yet my body thinks it needs to stay in the bed. Man is this annoying!!

OK....

So Until Next Time!

Picture Time...

Thought I'd take the time to share some pictures with you....
First is a surprise gift send to me by Sonya! I am so happy to have these.... Now I just have to paint them and stop worrying about 'what if I mess them up'... Do you do that.... put stuff off because your afraid you might do something terrible to it?? I do.... I do know I want them all white to go in my cabinet.... But I'm thinking I might have to try an idea out with them, too.... It's top on my list of thins to do for myself:) Thank-you again Sonya for the beautiful minis you have sent me.


Next is a birdhouse that I thought I was going to love. I found these really cute cupcake stickers at Toys-R-Us.... but they just don't show up on the birdhouses like I want them to. I've tried painting different colors, and the white seems to work best.... Maybe if I keep looking I can find better stickers:) This birdhouse is not even close to be finished.... I have to sand out that hole.. add a roof... and age it... Then we will see if I feel like it's 'sellable'.


Then there's the item's I've recently ordered to start a new project. As soon as I saw this I thought of a garden fountain... I plan on making a mold of this... and then use the cast to make some wall fountains... But we will see.... I sure do have a lot of Stuff on my 'to try' list!


These I swear were meant to be mine. I stalk Etsy for certain items that I can re-purpose and use in my miniatures. And I have been trying to find a bust for some time. So when these game pieces popped up, I couldn't help myself. I want to do some white... and some stone... And there's that blue one- I was using this color for something else and didn't want to throw away the extra paint I had.... so one got painted.


And last but not least... I wanted to show you what I have to put up with. This is me.... trying to get some 'work' done on the laptop. That is Otis.... Who doesn't care what I'm doing. He looks small in the picture- but he's not. I can barely see over or around him... and his butt will rest on the keyboard and type a conversation all on it's own. I have to fight him to get him to get down... and then he tries so hard to come back! Some times it's just easier to let him sit there!


You can't tell from me yacking away.... but I'm dizzy! Now I'm normally dizzy due to the change in my blood pressure when I move, but this is crazy. And I am so over it. Now that I've said it out loud, maybe it will just go away! I don't like feeling like I'm on a boat! Needless to say... I haven't got much done. I did re-organize my Etsy page... I now have shop sections:) But that's about it. Just been laying here waiting for the room to stop spinning. And thinking about all the things I could be doing....... *sigh*

until next time....

Behind as always!

There's just not enough hours in the days anymore.... I just don't know where it is that the time goes....

I was able to get some things listed in Etsy today... and thought Id drop off some eye-candy for you guys.

I sure am grateful for the plants I have.....
but today I was thinking I need to find some tiny, tiny plants..... something that flowers and is easy to grow.... it would just give me more photo ops in the garden.

I do like the blue against the brick... especially with that little plant growing up through it:)

But my favorites are the pictures I took with the blackberries:) You wouldn't believe how many we have! I can't wait to taste the first one! Yum!

I know.... I know.... I'm getting really far behind over here in my posts.... And with kids getting out of school this week, I'm realizing my time is going to go by even quicker. I tried to hide in the living room today to get a little 'work' done, and next thing I knew all of the kids and the bf were in the living room with me yacking away about that darn PS3.... Made me realize I'm going to have to rethink my working environment.... trying to get anything done in the middle of the family is just not going to work, lol. ...sigh...

Ok.... Hopefully my next post will be soon...

Until next Time:)

Just a quick pic

Thought I'd show you the difference between the 2 sizes of signs I make. I make them all different sizes..... but the width is always the same for both. I ran across this phrase "BAKED FRESH DAILY" and thought they'd make some neat signs..... and then I made some bread signs... and some bakery signs... and a few others. My goal is to have them listed by the end of the weekend:) Good news is I already have them photographed:)


I also want to get another blog post up this weekend about my recent purchases and a surprise gift I received! And I need to catch up on my comments. I was able to comment on a few blogs the other day..... but it is still not letting me comment on everyones! **Ara- is your reading this- The recent photo of Arabella in the dollhouse is AMAZING! I loved it so much I sent a link to my Mother, so she could see it too! She's just beautiful Ara!!!

Ok.... see ya later!

Until Next Time...

My day in a nutshell...

Started out my day with an easy doctor appt- Just my 6 month follow-up with my Primary care doc to 'catch him up' on what I haven't been doing:) This month is actually a little busy in the dr department... Nothing serious... Just my routine exams.

I was also able to take advantage of the weather and got the rest of my pictures taken. This is the custom order I'm working on right now. It's for a lady named Kim Hammond in Texas. She makes dollhouses and roomboxes for people and had asked me to help her with some birdhouses for a Garden Shop. When I asked her about colors, she told me she had some paint samples, and sent them to me. When I first saw them I had to laugh... there were so many.... So I put them into color groups and stapled them to a sheet of paper. It has been So helpful! And so inspiring:) This is what I sent her this afternoon...... (I'm almost done with everything... Just have to finish a little here and there.

Thought I'd show you so you could see my thought process sometimes.... Once I had this.... I took another sheet of paper and put dots of all the colors I had... then I was able to color match things better.

I was also able to get the rest of the birdhouses photographed. I will get those listed within the next few days. My sleep schedule is a little off right now... took a nap this afternoon... and didn't wake up till 1 AM. It is now 3:24 AM and I'm thinking I might need a another nap before the sun comes up? lol

Anyways... Here's on of the single houses I made. These white stickers are hard to photograph... the seem to wash out in the sun. So I put it in the shade and took a picture.

My bf earlier made a comment to me about how old they look. And that's exactly what I was going for:) Takes a lot of sanding to make that brand new wood look like it's been around forever!

And while playing around this week, I made this. I used a fence post, turned upside down... and then added a doorknob.... Now I'm thinking I might of put the door knob on upside down- lol... But I like it better like this. I only made one of these; I gotta get more doorknobs before I can make more.


I spent some time out front hanging out with the kitties..... and we watched this little guy crawl over our tree stump.... (It's that white thing?!)

Love that micro function on the camera.... makes it look like he's crawling through a forest and in reality it's just a moss covered tree stump:)


Freddy made it outside earlier this week, and I have not even been able to get close to him, until today. I guess he finally remembered he was a pet and not some feral kitty anymore and spent quite a bit of time rubbing all over me. However.... both me and the bf agree..... he has a different look in his eyes now- wonder if he meet a girl kitty on his little expedition?

Even Boogs visited. Boogs loves being outside.... but he's not to fond of his brother. Fred is bossy and Boogs is really really docile. And I think Fred bullies him because of this.

Needless to say... It's been a very productive, uneventful day. :)

Oh..... remember I told you my sister sent me a laptop:) I was a complete dumb ass and forgot to put the cord away one night... and guess who ate it? Yup! That Otis..... Ask me if I wanted to strangle him!!! Cost me sixty something dollars to get a new one! That Damn Cat!! -But now that I have the laptop back, I can start surfing blog world again:) Now if I could only get google to let me comment Everytime. ((It's really annoying when you type a long comment.... and then it won't let you post it!))

Well.... it's now 4:13 and I think I might of just got my second wind..... man!


Until Next Time!

Kitty Teeth and Mini Birdhouses

I just love when you look over and see kitty teeth.... They're just sooo cute:)

As you can see.... Wilbur is keeping me company.

I've been busy making birdhouses. I'm working on a custom order, so while I had the materials out.... I made some for my shop, too. I've also come across some new nail stickers.... and thought we'd have time for a photo montage....

Starting with this set of green houses with green flowers.... These are flat on the back so they can easily be attached to the wall.

As I was coming back inside... I saw that my tea-rose bush had one bloom... So I decided to use it as a back drop.... Here's a teal blue house with a yellow butterfly.... Love the pink against the blue:)

Here's a little blue house with a white hibiscus flower.

Or what about the blue against this orange day lily?

Even this little green birdhouse with it's red butterfly looks good in this flower:)

Out blackberries are coming in... in abundance! this year.... I can't wait to eat one!

...and as you can see, I have hid another birdhouse in there..... I like playing around with these kind of pictures!


And last but not least.... My hosta plants.... I love when they're blooming like this! And I really like the blue birdhouse against the white flowers....

My goal is to have these listed this weekend... First I gotta take some normal pictures, lol.

So...
until next time.......