Who's Doll House Is It Anyway?

                                                                                                                                                    2-2-2012
     Well hello! Here it is only a few days into a brand spanking new month. So how the heck are you all doing? It's almost 6:00 PM, the sky a pale baby blue, streaked with fading criss-crossed jet trails that look as though some modernistic artist had gone a little bonkers and just drew squiggly lines randomly here and there. It is fast approaching the dinner hour.
      I look around my cosy living room, draw the curtains, and watch my husband as he tinkers with yet another idea for the doll house's insides. He decided, that it had to have a flat-screen TV above the fireplace. With his son-in-law's (Aaron) suggest of putting Stan's favorite TV series M*A*S*H on the thing, buzzing in his brain. My hubby proceeded to make a perfect tiny flat-screen TV with a still shot of Hawkeye and Colonel Potter in the 4077's Mess tent. Right now at the angle I'm sitting at, there's a faint flicker on the tiny screen that makes it look like the darn thing is on. Just a reflection of the kitchen fan, but it sure could fool your senses for a minute. Right now he's in the kitchen where the light is better, creating his latest. Speakers for each side of the fireplace so that the little people who will eventually inhabit "Pelican's Perch" will have all the basic necessities.
     I have uploaded some of the newest pictures of out little creations. Hay if you can't have things exactly like you want in real life, why not in miniature? I made the braided oval rag rug by hand, after I found a catalog that had them for about $10.00 and they weren't even real, just printed on paper. Took me awhile to do the little rug, as I've never made one before. I used knitting yarn and braided it. The braiding was worse than sewing it together. I cut lengths of yarn 9 pieces total, then wrapped it around a folding chair leg, so that I had three strands of 3 each and then braided those together. I must have looked like a big demented human spider type woman as I had yards and yards of knitting yarn spread all over the floor, as I would braid about an inch, push the chair away with my foot, then start straighten out the yarn, pulling each 3 strand through the tangles to another pile. When the tension would slack a little, I would push the chair farther away again, then do it all again, over and over. But after all that's said and done.... I kinda liked the finished product,. What do you think?

 

Flat screen TV. Logs are real misquite.

 

 

kitchen isn't finished and the rug really doesn't belong there.

 

 

give you a better idea as to the color..

If it was life size it would be a 4 1/2 ft X 71/2 ft.

 

 

The floor tiles Aaron put in the Conservatory

 



      Well, my children, night has closed its's dark fingers around our home and I will stop writing for tonight. Tomorrow is annother day and I plan on taking more pictures and writing a few more things...  for now, goodnight, God bless, and pleasent dreams!