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I put pictures of the finished roombox in my gallery. I love how it came out.

I haven't posted much lately; the girls are finally back in school (with its own dramas and 3 different school runs daily) and I'm studying part-time as well (psychology - I guess I may venture into the "dollhouse addiction" field hehehehe. How does Dr Dollhouse sound?). After much soul-searching, I gave away my half-built puzzle house to my DH friend Mary, as it was irritating me beyond belief and the quality was very poor. Yay for me for de-cluttering! My roombox shopping mall idea is morphing into a full-scale mall.... I found all these amazing miniature wire garden furniture pieces, gazebos, swings, trellis fences, round benches around trees.... sigh. The ladies at the craft store thought I was nuts: first I bought about $150 worth (which Mary promptly bought from me), so I had to go back to buy the rest - literally, there is almost nothing left! I am now considering placing the 9 Ikea boxes all facing outward, in a large rectangle shape. The inner empty section will become a courtyard. So each box needs a door cut out of the back wall to reach the courtyard area. That will give me some more scope to decorate those outer walls too. I guess I'll need a large wooden base to build everything on. I want to glue velcro strips underneath each box to keep them in position. Then I can decorate the courtyard garden with grass, trees and all the furniture. I also found a children's modular playground (just about 1:12 scale) - 3 different styles/colours (naturally, I just HAD to buy them all). This can also go in the courtyard section. And I found some really cute 1:12 scale plastic prams (in the cheap supermarket toy section of all places). They are horrible neon colours, I may paint them silver for the pipe sections. These can go in the baby accessory shop. The box with the most goodies so far, is the nightclub: I have a bunch of little pink square speakers (for iPods), black and pink checkerboard felt for the floor and pink giftwrap (handmade paper) with silver glitter circles and a little disco ball. I just don't know how I'm going to get any people made with all the crazy stuff happening. At least if I get the mall in a workable shape, it may tell me what kind of people it wants: the detailed resin figures on Amazon or more relaxed figures with real clothing. And then I was innocently browsing on Amazon the other night, looking over the 500+ items on my "saved for later" list and .... BAM! There was a HUGE discount on a Lily dollhouse..... I just couldn't resist unfortunately! The Dubai couriers delivered her this morning. My bemused husband had to accept it, as I was at the girls' piano lessons. Luckily I had sold some of my stock of artist canvases and that paid for the shipping - no way I could sneak THIS one into the house hehehehehe. Cue Pinterest and all the gorgeous paint jobs in New Orleans - I'm very excited about this one. Decor-wise: Interview with a Vampire style or more French Quarter in the 1800's? Have any of you built a Lily? There isn't much out there in Google-land. Now I have my beady eye on Amazon in case a Brimbles Mercantile shows up with a mark-down hahahahaha! I will have to start uploading some pictures of my crazy finds in the supermarket toy sections - all plastic, but so cheap and irresistible!

Hello~ My mother owned a dollhouse store for a good many years, and still has several of her favorite setups left over. She's hoping to move on, this year, to a well-earned retirement with the love of her life- but they'll be downsizing to living in an RV, and obviously she can't take the miniatures and dollhouses with her! I'm looking for someone who can direct me to a place where we could donate these items, or who would be willing to purchase them? These finished products are lovingly made, complete and fully furnished, and include: *Two mercantile stores (one in an antique box featured in the burning of the train station scene, from Gone With the Wind) *Greenleaf Pierce Victorian dollhouse, 36x24 L-shape house (Built 1986, exterior recently redone in hand-pounded slate) *A Christmas-theme dollhouse (fully furnished) *A Native-American campsite diorama, in a closed box (roombox) *English drawing room in a Chinese glass box (roombox) *A half-inch scale beach house *A men's home-office roombox (w/ mahogany and wingback chairs) If anyone is interested in seeing pictures, or can direct me to an interested third-party, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks~