Blogging Still......

Where Have They Gone.....?

You Might not remember, Dear Readers, the condition of The Lovely Old Dollhouse when I first began to re-build it way back in 2009, before I had even discovered the world of Miniatures on the internet and had no clue about blogs! The above picture shows it shortly after I had begun the rebuilding. I had decided to add a few fireplaces and had begun to rebuild the stairs and then discovered electrical lights at a miniatures store nearby.... and my world was changed! It was not long before I was searching for mini lighting on the internet and stumbled upon the world of blogs.... miniaturists from all over the World at one's fingertips! I was smitten! And only a little while later, with the help of my tech savvy sons, I started this blog... my own contribution to this fascinating international exchange had begun! You might wonder why I am suddenly waxing nostalgic here.... and it is for two reasons. One is that a blogger I admire and who had not posted in a long time, posted again the other day... Helene at Pubdolls.... (please go on over and say Hi to her! ).... and she mentioned that she would have to have a look to see what I had been up to in her absence from blogging! My first reaction was to cringe..... how could Anybody Possibly review all of my... how many years is it now.... Eight years of loooong posts? It would not be possible! And then I realized the eighth Anniversary of this blog had recently passed... Eight years and I am still blogging! Helene had last posted in 2011.... and I was still building.... well... what was I working on in 2011? Oh, the years have been flying by! I think I was working on the Cupboard House.....

Which is literally an old cupboard that I am retrofitting to be a Dollshouse.

I ran into some technical snags with wiring

 and glue and wood shrinkage and have.... um....

 put it on the back burner.... for now.... 

while I figure those things out!

But I have not forgotten it!

And then in 2012.... 

I got all swept up in the Wedding of Pollyanna and Arthur..... 

 

You might not remember how many costumes

 I had to make to get Everybody ready!

And they barely fit into the Chapel of The Castle Dollhouse.....

And there was a Reception afterwards too!

And before the dust had even settled....

I began to work on the landscape for The Folly Dollhouse... 

and got swept into The Treehouse Project.....

Which as some of you might not know,

 is a Tree that stands on The Folly landscape.... 

that has rooms inside it which are the home of the Rats

 and are built in 1:48 scale....

And I became enchanted with the smaller scale....

Can you see the furniture at Belle's feet? 

And every now and then when the sun is shining on it 

I have a peek inside the Tree House....

 

 Samuel Whiskers is a bit surprised.....

 

Do you even remember this Parlor......

With the Gods cavorting in the clouds on the ceiling...?

Or the Library.... 

with all those Treasures and Paintings.... 

I know, it is a Mess and so hard to see....

I will have to get in there and put things to rights...

And the Bedroom too... 

with that Divine Pagoda bed... 

with the embroidered curtains....

And the Tree House Nursery... 

where we got side-tracked.... 

years and years ago....

Well, I think it was because I had to Tell a Few Stories....

 

I had to build a Conservatory.....

I had to build a Park.... 

that could even be visited on a rainy day......

And years and years go flying by!

I am still working on painting the Castle Ceiling.....

Someday it will be finished!

But for now, every so often when the sun is shining right... 

I can get good pictures....

It is dark in the Castle and you have to

 get down on your knees and look up.....

Those Saints are Very Patient!

Because, as some of you might know... 

I get side-tracked... 

and might have to take a year or two building only in 1:144th scale.....

 starting with the roombox on the shelf in The Folly Parlor!

(Do you see it there...?)

Oh, Dear Readers, I am afraid it is not Possible to review it all!

And did I forget to mention a Project or Two.....

The Cloud Palace is not yet done......

Nor Hardwick Hall.... 

Nor the Castle itself....!

And here I am ..... promising to make more....

Shrubs for The Folly garden.......

 

 Which I did manage to get mostly painted....

(the first shrub, that is....)

And more tiny Lilac blossoms!

Now there are three!

And here you can see the mostly painted shrub by The Folly.....

Still a Looong way to go, Dear Readers!

Yes, I don't know where the years go....

But I am blogging still!