KathieB

This house was built around 1850 in the Garden District of New Orleans and is inhabited by a doctor and his wife, both free people of color. The rooms are not large. Part of the challenge of this build is to find furnishings delicate enough to fit the scale.

This is the 1860s cottage of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Priestess of New Orleans, and her daughter, Marie Glapion.

Built ca. 1948-50

Shadyside Pottery is a one-man operation that consists of two rooms: a small display shop and the studio. Outside is a woodburning kiln. With the exception of the porcelain pots, glaze bottles, trash cans, and the sink, everything is handmade.

The shop is primitive, as is the whole operation. The potter's focus is making pots. There's no sales counter; he'll make change out of his apron pocket if a customer should happen to buy a pot.

The studio is small but efficient. The moist clay in boxes comes in through the garage doors. The wedging table is next to the clay. The potter's wheel is behind the ware shelves. Extra bats for the wheel are below the wedging table. The worktable behind the wheel holds some hand-built pieces. Slip molds on the shelf above the wedging table are used to make several copies of one design. One pot is ready to come off the wheel. Another is on the glazing bench. It will join the pot on the shelf to await the next firing.

Wood for fuel and bricks to seal the kiln are piled nearby.

After a hiatus of 5 years, this Washington 2.0 kit morphed from a pristine farmhouse to a haunted house.

The Beacon Hill will be home to a f.m.c. (free man of color) doctor and his lovely wife in New Orleans in the mid-19th century.

Guides for making it "look real"

In 2005, before Katrina, our then 10-year-old chose a jungle theme for her bedroom. A few months later we evacuated and never again lived in that house, but she did enjoy it while it lasted.

My first doll house.