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    cycling, hiking, kayaking, doll & mini making, needlearts

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  1. Invest in blue painters' tape or beige masking tape and dry fit your house first, taping it together before you glue or nail anything, and spend time looking at it (and conversing with it, to find out what it wants to become). I usually prime the parts I will want to paint or paper later and stain what I want to stain. Since I tend to build from the ground up, I decorate the interior of the first floor before progressing to the second floor. I don't electrify my houses, since I build them for myself to play with, but having the house in dry fit will h elp you decide h ow you'll want to run your wiring as you and the house decide how it wants to be lighted.
  2. There are some nice 1:24 lampshade printies on the Small Stuff Digest's printmini site: https://www.printmini.com/printables/lamps/lamphq.html https://www.printmini.com/printables/lamps/lampptn.html https://www.printmini.com/printables/lamps/shades.html https://www.printmini.com/printables/lamps/shadesptn.html
  3. How do we learn things if we don't make mistakes? And a belt sander helps a whole lot...
  4. There is part of the Florida Trail that begins at a big, friendly sign about three miles east of Pensacola /Beach that goes through the dunes on the Sound side of the road, one of the few places people are allowed to walk the dunes in Florida. About halfway there;s an abandoned fish hatchery that a nesting pair of bald eagles have claimed and they like to check out hikers. There's also a primitive campground nearby. There's a campground at Ft Pickens with RV and tent sites. One of our old hiking buddies, Sandra Friend, has written some good trail guides for Florida.
  5. Sanding the worst parts might make you feel better in the long run, and I tend to zone out doing repetitive routine stuff like that and have conversations with the house. By all means dry fit to see where you might not have to sand as much.
  6. Yes, Kami, that's the book. There are full-sized patterns for the dolls' body parts and for clothes. For hands, feet and faces I like this one by James Carrington: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/112-scale-character-figures-for-the-dolls-house_james-carrington/875236/item/8400750/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=low_vol_f%2fm%2fs_standard_shopping_customer_aquisition&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=688842569242&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw48-vBhBbEiwAzqrZVBZDVkB0Cc-fRMztzPr9mgbxBZPc9iEr1vYqKPfPD0H2xtrgUpIKKhoCDNwQAvD_BwE#idiq=8400750&edition=3273970
  7. Kami, Sue Heaser has a great book for making dolls from polymer clay. I use chenille pipe stems to joint mine to make them poseable.
  8. Michele, the Building Team built and blogged the Glencroft back in 2005, so once someone can find their instructions and get them to you you'll have some suggestions for building it.
  9. It's the same rule that buttered bread always lands butter side down...
  10. If you have one of those nice paper cutters you could invest in some inexpensive poster board and whack out all the siding your heart desires. Once it's glued down and painted,it will look good. I slathered the exterior of mine with joint compound.
  11. The builder could have bashed it (thinking of Judith here). I used to want a Foxhall until I started getting my hands on more Greenleaf kits after joining the building team.
  12. I used to pray for patience when my sons were little, and had the chance to attend a school for prayer shortly after, where the Franciscan brother teaching the course mentioned, right off the bat, that God ansers prayer by giving us opportunities to acquire whatever we pray for... OOPS! I now have LOTS of patience with most things.
  13. If you use the square columns you can build a serving bar between them to divide the kitchen from the living/ great room.
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