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Bee

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  1. 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.
  2. thrown into drawers, shoeboxes, a couple of vintage breadboxes, pushed into the rooms of a neglected dollhouse--- i need help!
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. she's beautiful-- congratulations. the six daughters of george III were: augusta sophia charlotte elizabeth mary amelia
  6. 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?
  7. 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.
  8. oh lisa, you are living the dream. congratulations!
  9. 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!
  10. 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.
  11. Bee

    dust!

    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.
  12. 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!"
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
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