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Miniatures…
My house didn’t close this weekend like it was supposed to, so I spent today working on miniatures.
Friday I went to IKEA to get a new FIRA mini chest. These are the two I have now:
These are how the drawers are arranged:
This is the other box:
I also finished some mini food which I will try and get on etsy this week:
Hey Look…
It’s a halfway better looking template…
And I know I have ignored this blog for the past month and a half…maybe more…but life happens sometimes. I am trying to simplify everything in my life though so I have more time to do the things I want to do, rather than the things that just need done.
My new policy is that if I have some bit of clutter that I move around from place to place, and it doesn’t really have a place of its own, then it goes into a box to be donated. There is still clutter around, but it is mainly doll house and miniatures supplies/items/works in progress. I’ve even managed to kill off quite a few houseplants (odd for me) so there aren’t even as many of those to keep watered.
Ryan is coming home for a week, the first week of September. I am also taking a week off then.
Today Mom and I redid part of the kitchen. The landlady didn’t want the paneling painted, but I did get rid of the country blue wallpaper.
This is what my kitchen looks like now:
At least the side with the sink. The opposite wall has the refrigerator, microwave and a metal shelf with lots of glass jars and colored bowls on it. And that curtain material? It took -months- for me to find it, but I absolutely love it. Retro in muted colors. The painting you can sorta see over the stove is one I did in college, it is ribbon candy, I just never took it down after Christmas. The flowers are fresh cut zinnias.
Now I just need to get the rest of my house that clean…
As for this template, the blue text needs to go away. And those smiley faces…I assume those are new with the theme I was redoing, but they have to go. I’ll get to it soon. Really. I try anyway.
A new theme!
It’s all pink and red and February-ish. Maybe a little over the top, but it is fun for a short while. It’s only 10:40 on a Saturday morning and Gurney is driving me insane. I’ve spent a good deal of the morning yelling at him to stop whatever he is doing, but he doesn’t care, he thinks it is all in good fun. Oooh, if Ryan were home…then he’d listen. He is stir crazy with the weather and being inside. I haven’t taken him in the car anywhere because it is too cold to leave him in it while I run errands, and I haven’t left him outside for long periods of time because it has been so cold and icy. That added with the neighbor’s new chihuahua that they can’t control… That’s ticking me off. The thing is hardly bigger than two potatoes, if you let that get away from you, you have no business having a dog. So with the new one and their old one running around, Gurney along with all of the other large dogs around are being driven crazy. This weekend I have a to do list. Not all of them are household related things, i.e. one was to redo the theme on the website, and that is done. Some are miniature related. I need some grain of wheat bulbs, but I can’t find a local source for them unless Busy Beaver has some, but that ‘local’ is an hour away. If I run up there I might take Gurney with me…I could leave the car on there and he’d be within sight. Edit: I forgot to post this before I left the house this morning, I brought up my website to show mom the new design and my new post wasn’t here. Luckily, wordpress saves drafts. Gurney and I will shortly be on our way to Dayton.
Cluttery house…
Because of my normal lifestyle of leave, come home, drop everything, get new stuff, leave, come home, sleep, leave, etc. the state of my house has gotten a bit overwhelming. I worked on it most of the day til Mom called and wanted to go to Dayton. I mostly bought stuff to organize miniatures or things to make new miniatures (the second part of that of course just adds to the problem…). So, tonight until I go to bed, that’s what I will be working on.
Lazy, Lazy Weekend…
I really don’t feel like I accomplished a whole lot this weekend, but I am relaxed, and that’s saying something.
I spent most of my three days on the couch with the coffee table butted up to it gluing bricks on the doll house. Brick after brick after brick and I think I probably covered 12 square inches. There’s a point where I think, “Why on earth did I decide to do this?” Then I would get up the next morning and look at it and think, “Wow, that’s going to look good when it is done.” I also knocked out all the plexi glass windows because I found 1/16″ real glass at the dollar store in some picture frames.Saturday night we had a little surprise party for my aunt who turned 50.Mom cut my hair tonight. It now doesn’t even touch my shoulders and it feels so much lighter.Ryan bought a new motorcycle helmet and gloves tonight. His bike is being fixed. I didn’t worry about him before his accident, but now I think I will. He needs to get leather pants as well.
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