Old and New....

April and Amare were here this morning.  April was trying to find a photo of her when she was his age. In two of them, she was wearing shirts that he is now wearing.  I saved one because I embroidered it with Sesame Street characters.  That was her Oscar the Grouch shirt.  The other was one that Walter brought back from a national bowling tournament in 1976.  Unfortunately we didn't find the ones that she was looking for, but I found these.

Other oldies but goodies.  You have seen photos of the overall scene before. but I didn't know that I had close ups of some of the people.

April has claimed this scene and if she ever gets a home big enough for it, I will clean it up and give it to her.

Here are three of the very, very early dolls that I made for it.  I think that this was in 81 or 82. 

The camera and the director's chair of the script girl were from the Anaheim NAME National.  The building was a Ballhagen storefront.It was about the smallest one that they had and all that I could afford at the time.

Everything else in the scene was my work.  I still love the director, with that cigar in his hand, yelling, "Cut!".  He kind of reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock. 

I was quite proud of this one.  It was my first entry in the Tucson Miniature Show and it won Best of Show.

With April and Amare here, I didn't get a whole lot of minis made.

I did get the windows cut out of the outside of the tower...That's it.

Tessie and Zar came by to see what I was doing.  Zar speculated that the hole in the floor was not for a turntable....It was a drain, in case someone wanted to install a bathtub...???  Or maybe someone was too lazy to mop the floor and they could just flood it?

Anyway, I still haven't solved the window problem.  And another problem is in view.  the hinges and the lock by Tessie's head.  I am going to have to think of a way to hide them, without too much blockage of the scene.  And I thought that this was going to be easy....

So much for easy!

See you tomorrow.