AHOY THERE!!!!
I haven't posted for a while as
I am still hard at work at finishing the garden of my cottage at #43 Green Dolphin Street, and will bring you an up-date on it very soon, meanwhile, I thought that I would distract you and tell you about 2 of my former doll's houses.
I know that I have made mention many times before, about one of my doll's house that the rats destroyed. That particular tragedy took place rather early during my 12 silent years, of non-mini-making. However, there were TWO doll's houses that the rats trashed. One of them was my very first doll's house, a Greenleaf "Jefferson" doll's house, (This saltbox kit was later re-named the Willow)
Mine was fully furnished, in an American Country style, in pinks and blues with country quilts as its theme. I later on gave this house and its entire contents to my friend, Pamela Grant. The same lady that made all of the incredible needlepoint cushions that I have shown you before, and a few of which currently reside in
#43 Green Dolphin Street. After the rat fiasco, Pam took that house under her wing and nursed that poor Jefferson back to health.
No regrets; as I know that my invalid house went to a good home.
but My other doll's house was my favorite it was the Greenleaf Glencroft entitled "At Home By the Sea". It was done up in a West Coast Vintage Nautical style, loaded with cabbage rose upholstery, paisley, gingham, stars and stripes, and based loosely on the REAL Life east coast home of a professional Interior Designer,
Betsy Speert.
( If you like cosy interior spaces with a leaning towards traditional, nautical, and cabbage rose prints, and if you have a good sense of humor, you should check out Betsy's interior design blog. )
"At Home By the Sea" ended up winning a First Place ribbon here at what is now, the West Coast Miniature Show, way back in the late 1990's and then Best In Show the following year in Seattle, Washington! :D
I was very proud of both doll's houses, but then when I moved into my current Real Life house, they were carelessly
stored and ignored
for many, many years,
moldering away inside my dark and dank garage, and it was during that time that those dastardly rats chose to strike and chewed them both to bits and then left behind their many mousey deposits.
( oh, those 2 poor defenseless doll's houses... )
After Pam came and rescued my country house, I finally made an effort to clean up the Nautical one. I restored all that I could salvage, cleaned, sanitized and then put it all away again. Just recently, I pulled out some of what has been lying hidden in boxes. I grouped some of them together with some fresh pieces that I have recently made. It was Lots of Fun, getting re-aquatinted with my seafaring toys again.The photos that I am about to present are just a pastiche of the more interesting bits and bobs that I have salvaged, saved and still continued to collect. Some are left overs from my old Glencroft, some are gifts and then some were hand-crafted not all that long ago. The theme is of course "By The Sea"
welcome aboard!
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