tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543111444481253842024-03-13T18:09:57.918+00:00Petite PursuitsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758633641846407748noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354311144448125384.post-1187580001320997642014-01-02T23:08:00.000+00:002014-01-02T23:08:13.173+00:00Long time, no blog.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last year I made my last blog post here on the 7th April, 2013. Why did I stop after that? I have no idea! I guess life just got in the way, as it does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But now, on the second day of 2014, I'm filled with all the well-intentioned goals that everyone else has: to start afresh, and stick to it! (we shall see ;) )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's how the rest of my 2013 went, in pictures:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Easter 2013 involved lots of delicious cupcakes with these cute little fluffy chickens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A lot of work went on in my sewing/dressing/closet/work room. These are my new shelves from Ikea, which I love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This made me laugh, A LOT. Both the original and the chicken version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So many beautiful sunsets last year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Lots of visits to beautiful places throughout Ireland too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But it was all in aid of my newly refurbished <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ie/shop/ShopFleurette" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I renamed it 'Fleurette' and started working on some cute hair accessories for it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The above are some of the hair bows I've made, I hope to work on lots more (including miniatures) for sale in 2014</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758633641846407748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354311144448125384.post-43632981936617956752013-04-07T23:15:00.000+01:002013-04-07T23:15:47.997+01:00DIY Crystal Chandelier<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had ordered crystal beads on Ebay in few different shapes. But the teardrop ones I was waiting on took WEEKS to arrive (from China, silly me), so when they finally got here I could finally start working on my light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Using the electrical fitting from the light I bought, I sewed/glued/tied/fixed the beads and findings around it until I had what resembled a 'crystal chandelier'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's been a shamefully long time since I've posted here. My job in 'real life' is taking up a lot of time at the moment (stupid rent/bills to be paid!!) and despite my best intentions to get my bum in gear, I have about twenty mini projects in mind, but none even <i>slightly</i> finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BUT! That said, here are a list of projects that I have started. (They stare at me from various corners of the room in their unfinished states, taunting me. Feckers.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1. New curtains for my boutique. <i>The fabric is waiting for me, cut out.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">2. A display stand for all my mini hats with a mirrored backdrop - a bit like a dressing table. <i>I started making this with a recent craft discovery I had: balsa wood! I never knew it was so soft and foamy (don't mock me!)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">3. Crystal lighting features for my boutique.<i> I have the beads, I have the findings....what's stopping me?? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm blaming this lack of enthusiasm on a lot of things, mainly the fact that it is SO COLD here in Ireland at the moment. Where are you, Spring?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And it's so hard to want to do crafty things when you're creeping from room to room swaddled in four jumpers, multiple pairs of socks and fleecy trousers, hugging the radiators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As I write, the wind is howling and beating branches against the windows, and although we don't have palm trees here, I imagine the view outside is something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Huge welcome to my new followers and sorry about the lack of posts. I'm really delighted to have you here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I designed the letters, envelopes and parcel wrappings on my computer first, using a vintage paper effect and though you can't really see them, there are true to the time, authentic postal stamps on the envelope and parcel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Excuse the overly dramatic post title; this is not the final anything. And at the rate I'm going, there will never be a 'final curtain' on my first dolls house project because I'm taking so long to do everything!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had to pull myself away from all the 'fun' stuff (hats, dresses, hat boxes, pretty things), and focus on the poor abandoned shell in my spare room, gathering dust. It has no lights and I've just lifted the carpets, so it's in a bit of a sorry state at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A few weeks ago I ordered a metre of crushed velvet online to make curtains for the boutique. On the screen it looked subtle and rich, a fawn coloured soft gold...but when it arrived I had to shield my eyes from the brassy glow it emitted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Then I gathered it in the middle with a length of tiny 3mm gold ribbon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And this was my nearly finished pair of curtains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So I'll see you then :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As it turns out, making hat boxes is an addictive process!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I went with the same millinery brand again because didn't you know? Elizabeth Harper hats are all the rage in Paris, dahling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> First of all, welcome to my new followers - it may seem like not a lot to somebody else, but six followers is a big deal to me. I thought I'd be alone here forever! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These above are my finished hat boxes which I am currently trying to sort out a video or pictures to show you the assembly process. Technology is hating me at the moment though, so it might be a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I designed the boxes 'from scratch'; I had seen a few downloads online but they weren't the look I was going for so I decided to stop being lazy and just do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Being a graphic designer by day has its uses! I've designed the template in a way that I can change up the background pattern with very little hassle, so I've great plans for a whole range of designer hat boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I printed my template on heavy, linen effect board which gave a beautiful texture to the design. My mini millinery brand is 'Elizabeth Harper Millinery', a name I plucked out of the sky which works to add a realistic look to the boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spring can't come any sooner as far as I'm concerned. The dark evenings and shortage of daylight hours makes photographing anything a chore. Thankfully, Photoshop is my friend and I've been able to lighten my pictures so they don't look as dreary as they did to begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But back to the good stuff! My original plan for my first dolls house project (the Jubilee Terrace soon to be a ladies boutique) was to fill it with an array of lovely things like hats, gowns, parasols, gloves and perfume.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've tried ordering miniature wooden hat stands (like the one on the left) from online stores a couple of times, but they always seem to be sold out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After a couple of failed orders, I've given in. I need lots of hat stands....so why not make them myself?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The finished hat stand, after a couple coats of metallic gold spray paint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While I'm working on some more DIY goodies for my boutique, I decided to play around with some of the bits and pieces I received for Christmas to create a kitchen dresser scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's something about a cake stand filled with a yummy selection of desserts that is irresistible to me. It might also be the reason why I have a growing collection of tiered cake stands that are amassing at the end of my dining table in 'real life'. If only I filled them with delicious cakes as enthusiastically as I filled this miniature one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wanted the cake stand to tie-in with the gold trimmed tea set from my previous post, so I got out the Judson's Gold Paint and set about changing the trim from pink to gold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last year I received a beautiful gift from my mother, a gold trimmed china tea set on a tray. The set is by Reutter of Germany and beautifully made in real china, so it's nice and weighty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I can't wait to work it into a dolls house setting, but for the moment I am contenting myself by doing mini photo shoots with it.</span></div>
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Both were made from scraps of fabric and lace I had lying around, using a mixture of fabric glue and hand sewing to fix them in place. I've had the mannequin and hat stand for ages, waiting to be clothed, and now I've finally started I can't wait to do more!</div>
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Mannequin and hat stand were both purchased from <a href="http://www.maplestreet.co.uk/">Maple Street</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My work in progress, the Jubilee Terrace Shop Front, has been abandoned over the Christmas period, due in part to the new dollhouse kit and selection of beautiful accessories I received as gifts. I have them laid out for admiring and haven't touched them yet, but I'll write more about them later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In my mind I imagine this shop is the dream of an ambitious lady, intent on bringing the fashions of London and Paris to her own town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love the style of the building, the fact that it looks 'small town', and is simple in it's interior layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This house isn't nearly as intricate and detailed as houses from the Dolls House Emporium, but I think it is a sweet starter kit for a beginner like me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The red brick effect is printed paper, and isn't as 'red' as it looks in the pictures - but is more of a rust/natural redbrick colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The house came with unglazed windows, which in hindsight, had I been more organised I could have bought glazed windows to replace the ones already in it. But ah well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As it is, I've put perspex panes into the two front display windows, and left the others unglazed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The kit came with these frames and lintels, which I painted white. They are quite basic though, so I hope the window boxes and the future addition of elaborate drapes will disguise the simplicity and lack of window panes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The window boxes started out as an experiment and ended up as a success and are made from heavy grey card painted in a brown 'wood stain' colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I layered strips of the card to achieve the authentic wood paneled effect, and the flowers used were purchased from an online craft store years ago and never used until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All three windows on the second and third floors have these same window boxes. Thankfully, they have taken the bare look from the windows on the exterior view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The roof is my favourite part of the project so far, and I had so much fun trying to make it as authentic-looking as I could.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The 'slates' are again made from the same grey card as the window boxes. I first cut them to size, and used a round cornering machine, generally used for card crafts, to round off the bottom two corners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I then glued these slates onto strips of the same card, spray painted them black and let them dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When they were dry I used a piece of sponge dipped in grey paint to give the aged, realistic look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I love the end result. Next to the red bricks, the roof looks fantastic, and the uneven painting makes it look like a 'real roof.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The texture is also brilliant. The card dried to a hard finish, so it was perfect for overhangs on the roof edge and above the roof window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The kit came with a door which I stained in a dark wood effect also, and I added the brass knocker, purchased online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The door wasn't a great fit for the doorway given, so I've had to leave it open, glued in place. I like the welcoming open door effect it has now though, giving you a peep inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I continued the red brick effect all around the window fittings too, as you can see from the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is in the interior view of the first two floors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you can see the layout is basic, with a single room per floor and a stairs complete with bannisters, newel posts, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've carpeted the entire house in cream plush stick on fabric, and the wallpaper is in shades of gold and cream, with a border and separate lower section to create some depth instead of a repeated print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next on the list is to install my lighting, which, I should have done originally before all these other bits, but you live and learn I suppose!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have purchased these chandeliers for the three floors as I want to do them as separate 'departments', but each with the same look and appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I would have loved to purchase more elaborate light fittings, but I couldn't afford most of the really spectacular ones I had seen. But after thinking about it, I don't think the owner of this establishment would have been able to afford them either!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, this is what I have done so far with my first kit build. I have been looking through other blogs for inspiration and am bowled over by the beautiful creations others have made, the imagination and expertise is just astounding. I can't wait to dig in and find more advice and fantastic pictures to fawn over, not to mention blogging my dollhouse creations of 2013.</span></div>
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Before I forget to say it, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Other dolls house collectors may share with me the feeling I sometimes have; that maybe a grown adult shouldn't have a guilt-inducing collection of dollhouse paraphernalia, or that maybe I should have grown up and stopped playing with them long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But it has been a love of mine for as far back as I can remember, instilled in me by my fantastically imaginative and creative older sisters who could concoct a dolls house palace from only a chiffon scarf draped across a tabletop (true story!), or a chic miniature boutique complete with feathered hats on stands and dressed mannequins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Throughout my teenage years I hid the truth, terrified that one of my peers would discover my mortifying love for anything miniature-related or find out that my bedtime reading of choice was the Dolls House Emporium annual catalogue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Years later, I finally gave into the obsession and asked for a dolls house kit for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My bemused boyfriend obliged and I got the Jubilee Terrace shop unit kit, from the <a href="http://www.dollshouseworkshop.com/">Dolls House Workshop</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But inexperienced and over-enthusiastic as I was, I immediately glued the whole thing together and proceeded to paint it entirely white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Looking back now I have no idea why I did it; I was left with a character-less wooden shell, like a white bookshelf with doors and windows. The house itself was beautiful, well made and thought-out, with intricate carved newel posts and bannisters, but I had botched it up completely in my haste to put it together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Feeling utterly disappointed I put the house aside, hiding it in the spare room as a a monument to my dollhouse failure after years of wishing for one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And it stayed there, hidden away for years until only a couple of months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know what came over me; it might have been the desire to work on a new craft project, the inability to accept dollhouse failure, or my husband (the 'bemused boyfriend' of years ago) being sick of constantly falling over it in the spare room that prompted me to try and attempt it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With renewed vigor I attacked the house, intent on 'doing it properly' this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have wallpapered, carpeted, slated a roof, glazed windows and painted a front door, but my vision is far from complete. I intend on recreating the boutique that lingers in my memories from years ago, complete with feathered hats and dressed mannequins, and I intend on documenting my progress here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you have ever looked at the BBC's latest series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vhpsv">'The Paradise'</a> and loved the style of the time, the design of dress and atmosphere of the Ladies Department, you will understand the look I am trying to recreate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It could go horribly wrong or wonderfully right, but either way, would you like to join me? </span></div>
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