A Living Room for a Doll

This is the living room area.

I have a slightly larger table in the garage which may hold a few more pieces of doll sized furniture.
Considering all the stuff I still have in my stash, there will need to be more room.
I thought of putting the doll sized bookcase over here, but it seemed to get lost among all the other books.
See that cute little globe bank? Didn't everyone have one of those when they were a child? While antique shopping on Tuesday I saw two of them. They were asking $24 a piece. Mine is a thrift store find - so.., yay!
Once I get the school room together it will go on the desk.
I also came across an old cutting board that I have in my work room.  It's all banged up on one side from being hammered on, but I think with the right legs it will make a great school room table!

This chair is the one made from a wooden box.
She sits very well on this.
I'm hoping to make a few more of these for when her friends come to visit.
Which is why I shall need a slightly larger table to set them on.
And the couch does seem to be holding up.  Famke accidentally sat on it while we were arranging things, and nothing happened to it.  So, there may be some truth to Grand Rapids having stellar furniture makers.
I'm still pondering adding trim to some of the pieces.  I don't want any of it to be TOO fussy.
As they are presently, if something falls off it's easy to put it back together.  I have to remember that my GOAL is for this to be for the grand kids.
NOT ME.  I occasionally forget that.  (sigh...)

For the living room to be complete, she shall need a basket of magazines.  That should be fun to make!

 I found this piece of Ralph Lauren in my stash.  I think Famke might like this one.  At her next sleep-over I'm hoping we can make a couch for her to bring home to her doll.

Well that is all for now.

There is still the kitchen/dining area to set up, and then the school room!

But I probably should not do it all in one week.

I need to live with it all for a bit to determine what works and what doesn't.

And I keep telling myself that I do not want to over do it.

But, um.., I do not think I know how to not over do things.

Nope.

So it will be a learning experience for me.

Wish me luck!

And On Tuesday...

Just ONE video of the birthday festivities and then I shall be on to other things...

This morning was errand morning.  First stop was to the Secretary of State office so I could renew my waaay past due drivers license.  Thankfully I've had no need to drive since June 1st, so it wasn't a problem. The problem was that I look quite a bit more than eight years older in my picture.  Then it was off to the bank to have some important papers notarized, and on to the post office to over-night the papers.  Amazingly it all took under an hour to accomplish.

So of course there was more morning to use up, so we went to what used to be one of our favorite haunts.  Hmm.  Things are changing there.  Not sure what to think about it.  It's not that I didn't find things, it was just much more of a hunt to do so.  Oh, well.  If things never changed I'd complain about that too.  Because that's what I do.

Even after meandering around there we still had more morning left, so we went to my favorite local thrift store.  I found a vintage linen table runner and an interesting piece of fabric.  That's all.

And since it was now afternoon and THGGM was off today we went for lunch at Olive Garden.  I won't need to eat again until Friday.  Mmmm.

For the rest of the afternoon I played with Feintsje while THGGM, Daughter, and the three big kids went swimming at Millennium Park.  It was such a beautiful summer day.  Quite possibly the best one so far.  But, I think Feintsje and I had just as much fun as they did.  I believe the game was that he was going off to work, walked out the door forgetting to give me a kiss, and then had to run laughing back to me to give me one.  I really liked that game!  But then when he went out the door again, he didn't know what he was supposed to do (probably because the directors of pretend play in his life were not present to give him orders) so he'd come back with a gilded piece of fruit, hand it to me and plop down until it was time to go to work again.  Then we watched Caillou on the computer.  In French.  Feintsje really seemed to like that.

THGGM came home exhausted from a) eating too much at Olive Garden and b) floating around in a lake all afternoon - but I had plans.  So off we went to Barnes and Noble where I replaced my broken reading light and purchased the August edition of Country Living British Edition.  It did not disappoint.  Never does.

So now I shall have a brighter light to read "Grant Takes Command" by.  The Federals are getting closer to moving in on Richmond.  While at Barnes and Noble I perused the Civil War books.  Not sure if I'll continue in that direction or pick up something with less heft to read once summer has ended.  Since I've also been watching some of the History Channel's series on Ancient Aliens, my dreams have been extremely weird lately.

While at Barnes and Noble I also read all of the Sandra Boynton board books that I do not own, just in case you thought I had gone off the deep end in my daily reading.

That was my day.  What did you do?

Thursday's Craft

Jonge and I made these leafy trees from coffee filters dyed with food coloring.

We HAD to do this since almost all of the trees in our yard still have green leaves. It IS fall, isn't it?

Famke crafted with us, but she didn't want to follow OUR plan. Famke marches to a different drummer. I would post a picture of her art work, but it didn't photograph well. Famke experiences great joy from cutting 3x5 cards into teeny-tiny triangles and rectangles barely visible to the naked eye. But it gives her much happiness, which seems to me to be what art should do!

Maybe soon I can post a picture of our newly painted/wallpapered bathroom. Tomorrow I'm making a sink skirt and a window valance out of a length of blue and white ticking I found in my stash in the basement. At least that's the plan.

It's always good to have a plan, you know.