The Dollhouse Blog

I have not been able to finish painting the Duma Key project since it has been rainy the last week or so and this week doesn’t look much better. As I sit here at my desk looking out at Eight in the morning it is as dark as evening out there. *sigh* Hopefully this won’t last much longer and I can get my air brush back out and finish painting the walls and assemble the room. It’s killing me. All I do it surf through online miniature shops daydreaming about my projects and thinking I may need budgeting software in order to afford to get what I want. Myabe the sun will come out tomorrow.

I have been wanting to join a local miniature group but I can’t seem to find one around here. I can’t even seem to find a local shop. It’s like trying to find information on medicare supplements. It is confusing. There are a lot of online shops out there, but so many are out of the country and I really don’t want to pay the shipping costs. It looks like a lot of people make their miniatures and I suppose this is something I will have to consider doing. Hopefully once I have my credit card paid off I can actually put some money into my hobby.

I’m not sure if window blinds are very “Key West” style. I need to do more research, but I have them in my home and I am considering looking for some for my project. I will also need dishes and probably some silverware as all of the cabinets and drawers work in the cabinet set I bought. I am not sure if I will have room for a small breakfast table or not. I hope I do, then I can have it set up with place settings and a centerpiece. I could even redecorate the table for each holiday!

I have saved our last bag of Baby’s Coffee so I can use it as a model. I want to make a miniature one for my Key West Kitchen. I already have the coffee maker. I just need to make the miniature bag which isn’t as easy as it sounds. I think I may even use part of the real bag itself to make it more realistic. The hard part will be making a label small enough.

What is Baby’s Coffee? It is the best in the world and it is roasted in Key West. And no, this post is not sponsored by them (I wish). It is part of the reason we love Key West so much. Lots of coffees hit your system like a colon cleanse product, but not Baby’s. It is smooth and flavorful. It is going to be one of those little details that makes the room truely Key West!

I don’t have the time and money to do and buy all of my ideas that I keep getting for my projects! But here are some thoughts on Duma Key. I have been listening to it again to get ideas. I want to blog about these before I forget!

It will be two rooms. The front room will be a sitting room and small. Maybe just a couch or a couple of chairs. Something in a Florida rent-a-house style but no teak outdoor furniture. The carpet in that room needs to be a pale blue (as per the book the living room of Big Pink has blue carpet and the studio is actually upstairs, but I don’t have an upstairs to work with). The room known in the book as Little Pink (the studio) will be fairly empty. Just the easel, a chair (straight back?) and a treadmill if I can find it. The room panel already has a double window in it, but I may need to cut it out to make it bigger to match the description. I am also thinking about getting two small girl dolls to dress up as the twins.

Well, I failed. When I took the clamps off of the walls for the Duma Key room they fell apart. The glue didn’t hold. I guess I used the wrong glue. I used some Elmer’s wood glue, but I guess I need something stronger. It was what I had so I tried it. At least I wasn’t trying to hang a speaker mount! Does anyone have any suggestions?