Finishing Touches

I am there except for the sign on the outside and a few little touches on the Rusty Needle. You don't get to see until tomorrow. That will be the grand reopening. I am baking cookies as we speak.
Until then I will let you browse through the mini shop next door.


I was mistaken about the house in the window. It is actually a resin piece. I was thinking it was metal. Wrong! It was still a raw piece that I had to do all of the painting on.


This is the interior of the shop. It is mostly a collector's shop. There are only a couple of buttercup kits for sale. The armoire at the back is about 1/8" scale. All of the metal minis that I bought for it were kind of an odd size. I made the scale fit the armoire.

There may soon be mayhem in the shop. There is a rather larger frog sitting on the counter. If he is real, the way that the dog is looking at him could indicate trouble......


This is a close up of the armoire. The headboard of the bed is a hinge from a Chinese box that I had that fell apart. I kept the hardware. Most of the rest of the furniture is metal miniatures.



Here is a shot of the back shelves. The houses with the thatched roofs on the top shelf are copies of real early American houses. The thatched roof on the bottom shelf is a copy of a Sweetheart cottage the I did in 1/12 scale. The lighthouse is sculpted from poly clay and painted. Some of the other ones are kits that a friend brought back from NAME nationals a few years running.The two in the center of the second shelf are little porcelain houses from England. The house on the bottom left is a straw house from China. It is an eclectic collection. A little bit of everything from all over.


I add to the stock from time to time when I find something I like. I don't think that this shop will ever be fully finished. It is just a collection that keeps growing.

Remember! Tomorrow is the grand reopening. I hope to see you there!