New member old doll's house maker

[Sara in the country]

I have been making things for doll's houses since I received my first home made one when I was 7. I've since made many more and forts and barns. Troll houses, when trolls were first in fashion way back when, mouse houses when mice had to be made by hand, GI Joe forts for the ones that were the size of Ken dolls, Barns small enough for matchbox sized cars and standard issue dollhouses.

I am working on a number of projects including turning a vintage dollhouse, (unknown maker) into a haunted house. Trying to muscle my way through Victoria's Farmhouse, (honestly I think putting together a Greenleaf with no instructions is easier,) and formulating plans to make a McKinley for a local charity.

I participate in private miniature swaps four times a year and manage our small farm since I'm retired and my hubby isn't. So between chores I make miniature stuff.

I'm spending my evenings putting fake stones on the haunted dollhouse. It's not as hard as it was when I started many days ago but since it's a three story full room size house I am guessing that it's repetition that's making it go faster. Sorta like putting a jigsaw puzzle together without a picture to look at.

I found the forums, blogs and such after talking with Greenleaf. I was so relieved when they told me the inside dimensions of the under house storage boxes. Since the McKinley is for charity I am not sure who will end up with it. I wanted to light it up but not have to have them worry about where to find a plug and I didn't want the new owner to have to worry about tiny hands wanting to play with the tranformer in the plug.

Sara

[havanaholly]

Welcome to the little family, Sunshine (I love your name!).

[shannonc60]

Hello and welcome to the forum! Sounds like you are pretty busy with your minis and farm! We look forward to seeing progress photos.

[Sara in the country]

I don't have a facebook page or a web site. Is there a place here to upload photos? I've got some pictures of my mini 4th of July display I made for the library. Complete with beer keg, knitting in progress, little ones with popcycles and fire works. I also have pictures of the doll's house that's transforming into the haunted house. I'd like to see if anyone recognizes it. I am pretty sure it's a late 40s to 60s based on wall paper and flooring. I am sure it's a kit as it's got the tab and slot construction. Some one rehabs parts of it as I had to dig the door hinges out from between the original plywood and exterior balsa.

Sara

[Mid-life madness]

Hi Sara, welcome to the formum.

If you see your Icon (with your name). Very top of page  at right. To the left of it is the word create.,. Click it, and a pull down menu will appear, select gallery image and you will be on the way to making an album. You will probably have  to resize your pictures. I use  http://www.picresize.com/

Good luck

[jbnmini]

Welcome!   You do sound quite busy!  Looking forward to seeing pics of your projects. 

 

[WyckedWood]

Welcome, glad you found us. The only time I have to resize pictures is to post them in a thread, but I've never had to resize to post to the gallery, I take pictures with my phone...not sure if that makes a difference. 

[mesp2k]

Hey Sara