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Rosalind

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About Rosalind

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    Greater Houston, TX
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    I do a variety of crafts, including mostly knitting, crochet, sewing and -- tada! -- dollhouse miniatures. I played with a large, old dollhouse as a child, and began making various little things for it early on. I did no minis for many years, but in 2001 I bought a decrepit Pierce house at a garage sale and began fixing it up. It's still a WIP, but as I got interested, I bought the Jefferson kit and 3 more garage sale 'fixer uppers'. It's been and on again, off again hobby, and I've recently come back to it because while knitting a boring item I began a tiny sweater on the side. The boring project isn't done, but so far I've made 3 sweaters, a cardigan and a couple of little hats. While this was going on, a little voice kept calling to me from the closet where the Jefferson was stored: "Either do it, or get rid of it!" There's is no way I could just give up on it, so it came out of the closet and is spread all over the craft room at the moment.

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  1. Havanaholly, Thanks -- love your pictures! I've used that kind of spackle in my real house just to fill up nail holes before painting, but I'm not very good with it. It usually seems to crumble off and gets all over things while I'm working with it, but it is easy to clean up. Since it's premixed, it seems as though it might be more expensive to use than the dollhouse stucco. Is it possibly more flexible when dry, so that I'd be able to put the house together after doing the walls? This is an aside, but while doing some research on Colonial houses, I found an actual 18th Century NY state tavern for sale, described as "largely unchanged". The real estate agent has some pictures that you might find interesting, with plaster work, and all: http://www.nutshellrealty.com/mls-details-...al-20091992.php (I have no affiliation with this company.) I don't know how long this will be available to view, but the building sure looks like the Jefferson dollhouse on the outside, only with 5 windows across instead of 3. There's a square chimney in the middle, just as the kit has, but before I saw this I bashed my chimney into two, one for each end of the roof. Also, I plan to cover my house with egg carton "stone", even though the kit is so old it includes clapboards. I did google up some actual vintage Colonial houses built of stone, and plenty of them with twin chimneys.
  2. It's been a long time since anyone posted here, but I wanted to thank everyone for the great suggestions. I have a question about the use of baby powder. When my kids were babies (31+ years ago!) baby powder was made of a mineral substance, talc. Since that time, there have been a lot of questions about whether talc is a possible cancer risk. Johnson baby powder and (I assume) other popular brands no longer have any talc in them. The main ingredient these days is cornstarch, and I'm wondering if it wouldn't have a tendency to cause yellowing over time. To anyone thinking of using sand and paint, it's important to note that if you live near the seashore, that kind of sand has salt which might react with your other substances in unexpected ways. I have had a little experience in the "full scale" house using drywall mud, and it's cheap -- especially since I have more than half a gallon of it still usable. My question about that is: would it have a tendency to crack? I am in the middle of putting together a Jefferson dollhouse kit that was in the back of a closet for several years - alas. To make this colonial style house authentically pre-Revolutionary, I've learned that it would be more typical for it to have plastered walls rather than wallpaper. So I'm hoping to create a plaster look on the inside, which would be much easier to do before putting the house together, but since the boards flex some, I'm afraid if I use drywall mud, of for that matter, dollhouse stucco, the material might just fall off in chunks when I go to assemble the parts. Does anyone have any experience with that? I'm guessing that the tissue paper idea would be more durable for this situation, but I'm nervous about being able to make it look anything like plaster. My avatar is the fireplace from the Jefferson kit, which I have covered with egg carton "stone".
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