Grass and Decorating

Well everyone was really curious about the grass/fur so I'm torn. Do I lead with that and give everyone what they want or do I keep it until the end and make you read the rest of the post first?

I'm not good at this.  I'll just show you guys the grass so far.

I started with some golden brown fur I had.

Since the table the dollhouse is on is my only work surface I employed sophisticated methods to protect the dollhouse from any paint spatter.  Method shown above.

I have a bunch of different colored fur, mostly because I used to make teddy bears as a hobby and for gifts and I can't stop myself from buying fur when I find it in the remnants bin.

I started out painting it with watered down Folk Art Apple Green.  Mostly to take the sheen of the acrylic fur off the fibers and to give it a decent base coat.

So its a yellowish green which is better but not quite grassy.  I had to let it dry overnight and Sunday morning painted it with a mix of different greens.

Better color but now the paint has to dry again.  Which took until around six at night and its still damp in spots.

But I tried to comb it out a bit with the cat brush and got some semi decent results.

I'm going to let it dry completely and then try to brush it out more.  But I like the color.  To Be continued.

And now the rest of what I did.  Lots of decorating.

I started out with the mantle and fireplace.  A lot of these pieces are the goodies I got from one of the online shows.  The candlesticks are from HBS Miniatures and the painting is by Megan Balli. She's on Etsy but I can't remember the name of her shop and I bought the painting a few years ago.

I never notice until they're in pictures but I have fat fingers.  Fred Flintstone fingers.

 

I got a cute little sign that just fits on the empty wall space in the kitchen.

Since our home owner has a nice little wine rack I thought it was appropriate.

Then it was time to fill up the windowseat built ins.  Wow that's a lot of space.

Luckily I have a lot of books and tchotchkes to put on the shelves.  I made some magazines to go in the basket.

And I made a couple pairs of Pepper's Converse Hightop shoes.

I made a pair in blue too and forgot to take a closeup of them.  But they look good next to the magazines right?

I've got a little box of matches on the way for the fireplace and the cubby on the opposite side of the bench will have wood for the fireplace in it.  I need to find a branch or two and cut it down to fit in the cubby.

I had a bunch of books that I got to fill up the shelves.

A nice big shell, a pretty box, a little turtle and some wooden bowls.

I put the speakers up and a couple of pieces next to them and tested out how the whole thing looked in the house.

I also got a bunch of records.

Our home owner is a Bowie fan.  As everyone should be. :-)

I like how the records look in the little cubbies under the shelves.

I did a few other things but I didn't take pictures so I'll show you in a couple days.

One last thing I did was add a pull to the ladder so you don't have to be nine feet tall in order to reach it to pull it down.

So. Progress is good.  We like progress.

My board that I ordered for the base was supposed to arrive Friday and now they're saying Monday.  I'm really hoping it comes quick so I can get the house on it and work on landscaping a bit along with all the other odds and ends I need to do.

But the end is in sight.  I'm trying really hard to not panic.

How are all of you?