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don't use saran wrap. try good (heavy) weight clear plastic drop cloth or sheeting you can buy for about $6. at walmart around the paint dept. and cut off what you need.
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thrown into drawers, shoeboxes, a couple of vintage breadboxes, pushed into the rooms of a neglected dollhouse--- i need help!
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holly, every few months i get an order of 3 lbs of honey-filled hard candy and 1 lb of bit o honeys from http://www.carolscandycorner.com/. if i buy a smaller quantity then i am too greedy to share!
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good luck. your description of your grandmother's refrigerator brought to mind the one we had when i was a little girl (in the 1950s.) good trip back.
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she's beautiful-- congratulations. the six daughters of george III were: augusta sophia charlotte elizabeth mary amelia
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really really REALLY nice. i love your house anyway, especially the kitchen and bathroom (and imho most bathrooms are boring!) why is your house named mary kay?
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i'm just beginning "funeral games" by mary renault, pub 1981. i thought i had read all her alexander the great novels, then i found this one.
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oh lisa, you are living the dream. congratulations!
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i love 'em, too. even if they make a goof they'll correct it. their latest catalog was in the mail yesterday with a rgt model of monticello. i am no longer building-- and the scale is wrong for me-- but it is soooo tempting!
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so sweet. they give us so much love.
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i'm afraid i have nothing to add except to repeat maybe a cap or bonnet? i'm in the same boat with a few dolls who have had unfortunate accidents themselves. sherlock holmes needs his head glued back on. my buxom lady needs a dress and new hair before she joins the bordello. i'm handicapped and very limited in what i can do. years ago, when i was hale & hearty, i used to travel thru north carolina for my job. outside one town-- i don't remember which-- there was a business with the sign "doll hospital." inside a wonderful middle-aged lady, like mrs. santa claus, presided with ill-fated dolls she had cleaned, dressed, repaired, refurbrished, restrung, repainted, rewigged, etc. long gone, i'm sure, but i wish i knew where i could find the like again.
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dust... my enemy i also buy the rolls of clear plastic drop cloth from the home stores. my dhs sit on chests of drawers and face the wall, backs open. i cut the plastic so it hangs a few inches too long, then close this edge in the top drawer of the chest so that the plastic sheet is anchored. this keeps more dust out. i live on a fairly busy street so i still have to dust at least every 3 months. everything comes out. i swiffer the floors and walls, then sweep the corners and trim with a cheap paintbrush broom. wooden furniture and decorations are cleaned with a soft brush, upholstery with a hard brush. i hate dust.
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well, i don't think "adventurous" is the right word. i prefer to do mostly victorian/edwardian because that is what i like to do. one of my dhs is a brothel; another dh belongs to a gentleman who is an importer of fine porcelain. is an importer of fine porcelain less adventurous than a fairytale character? what if that fairytale character lives in a 5-room house with all the mod. cons., a kitchen-livingroom-2 bedrooms & bath arrangement, and a set of stairs between floors because he can't hike his little fairytale heinie upstairs without one? wellll, my importer of fine porcelain FLIES upstairs and doesn't even have a bathroom. none of my houses have bathrooms anymore. THAT'S "adventurous!"
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Happy 4th of July! i've hung out the flag, put a red & white striped vinyl tablecloth on the diningroom table, and got out the star-spangled paper napkins. hamburgers, fries & cokes for dinner. simple and easy. it looks like it's going to be a pretty day here.
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my side is the inside. for me, a dollhouse is a dolls' house. i have 10-20 people per house and i like to see them, stage little dramas. i would also like to see the outside of my houses more but they are too big & awkward to move, so they just face the wall.