Out of the Closet!

 It may not look like much to you, but this is two complete days of hard work.

I should have taken a before photo.  You saw what was piled on the bed.  I whittled it down to this!

In the process, I weeded out even some fabric that I brought from our previous house...We have been here around 15 years. 

Does that tell you how bad the closet needed cleaning?

Now...Not today, but in the near future, I will clean out the closet in the computer room...It is a regular sized closet with double folding doors. 

It used to be April's room and there are still a few remnants from when she lived here...Long ago...

It has fabric, yarn, books, and other odds and ends...I am not looking forward to that one.

While I was cleaning out, I found these two bags that I started and haven't yet finished.  I am glad that I didn't.  Now I can put a pocket on them for my cell phone...Yup.  These were before I broke down and started carrying my cell phone in my purse.

I also found the start of a hand pieced quilt.  I am going to have to work on that one of these days.  It may change it's mind and want to be a pillow instead.

Today is the mini meeting, so I am taking it easy until then.  I dragged out this start of a rug.  There is a full pattern somewhere under rugs, from when I first designed it.  There are now 96 rug entries in the label section....Good luck finding it...I do know that it's there.  I just don't know where.  I am going to have to put in a new category...Rug Patterns.  But not right now.

I am going to put my feet up and stitch. 

By the way, the URL  for the bog coat entry, yesterday, was wrong.  It is http://caseymini.blogspot.com/2010/01/tessies-sewing-box.html Sorry about the mix up.  It is at the bottom of this entry.

See you tomorrow.

She's a Closet Diva....

No. Not the cat. Widget is a he. I just had to get the cute photo of the day out of the way first. This is what I have to contend with whenever I get my basket of Perle cotton out to work on needlepoint.

The "she" that I am referring to is.....Altogether now......Tessie!

I am starting on the second floor now. I have to finish the closet first because of the dividing wall between it and the bedroom. That wall is in two sections.

As soon as I got the rod installed in the back and the floor covering in place, she started loading up.

This is the person that seldom carries a purse/bag or ever wears shoes. She crammed five purses into the shelves and put eight pair of shoes on the rack at the bottom.

To her credit, for once she actually hung all of her aprons up. Well, not all. I should say, her most regularly worn aprons. It won't last. She will take them down, one at a time. She will wear said apron for a couple of days and then throw it in the annex. That's where aprons go to either die or get replaced in the closet by me.

She managed to squeeze in various other objects that have nothing to do with wearables....Unless you count the sock monkey that was made of her last pair of socks, before she started going barefoot........I think that was in about 1945.... See how she is holding the shopping bag just over the line? this is her idea of putting new things away. The next step will be to drop it straight down....There it will stay until someone takes the trouble to put it away. It won't be her...

OK the door is now in place. I did notice that the apron that she was wearing yesterday is nowhere in the closet....Off to a good start....

All was good until she got a look in the mirror a little while ago. White paint doesn't match red hair. You should have heard the howling and carrying on!

She is now with her private hair stylist....Remember the last time Zar got a hold of her head? Yup! The electric hair dryer is in play.

If you want to see what happened the first time she was talked into using it, go here. http://caseymini.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-morning-im-balthazar.html And this is how it was put together...
http://caseymini.blogspot.com/2010/06/every-girl-should-have-one.html

I am going to be brave and go see what Zar did to her hair this time. I also want to check to see if he is still alive and in one piece....

Then I am going back to work.

See you tomorrow.

Where Did the Sun Go?

The current temperature in Tucson is 36 degrees. It may get as high as 47 today. We desert rats don't like days like this.

I was out at 4:30 this morning to go get groceries. It was 32degrees. I beat the crowds, but not the temperature.

I decided that today would be the day that I had to clean out that closet that has all of the fabric stored inside. I seldom go into this one. At least not the left hand side. Whoever designed this was a complete idiot! It has double doors. That's good. The doors are to the far right hand side. That's bad.

About three and a half feet are virtually inaccessible. I don't know why they couldn't have put the doors in the middle. Most irritating....

So about once a year, I dive in and pull everything out. That's the only way it can be cleaned.

I won't bore you with the piles of stuff all over the floor. I did find, at the bottom of the back, an oak, curved glass room box that I have never done anything with. One of these days....It is very pretty and sits on cabriole legs that I found in a thrift shop. Someone, probably a high school shop student, made the frame for an oak footstool. Amazingly, it is the same dimensions as the box. It makes a nice occasional table when the two are put together.

You may ask why I never did anything with it? Simple. It is a very awkward shaped box. The ceiling is high, but not high enough for a second story. I have argued with this box for years about what it is going to be. One of these days, I am going to win! For now, it is out of the way.


I found my stock of yarn. Some is going away now. Some is staying to be made into something or be finished.

The half sock to the left is a good example. I started designing Halloween socks a few years ago. Then I got down to the part that would logically be boring black.

The six year old's attention span wandered. I am going to leave these out where the six year old will see them and get a guilty conscience. they will get finished. My goal is next Halloween. Tessie says that they would look good with pointy toes and no shoes....

The crochet below the sock is a granny afghan that I started a few years ago also. That's another one that I am bound and determined to finish. I really like it, but it is so time consuming. Every square in it is different.

So far, I have found two candidates for the Chesterfield.

They are both fat quarters that April found at her favorite quilt shop. They are both quilt weight cotton. The first one is a kind of tweedy material that looks like upholster's fabric in miniature. I think that it will make great mini furniture.

The second one is my first choice so far. Cheaters sometimes win....This one would be easy to tuft. I could use the diamonds in the fabric as a guide. I would probably use every other dot.

So....While I clean, I talk to myself, answer myself and sometimes argue. That part I do with Tessie. She likes the last fabric and wants me to stop cleaning and start upholstering her couch.

The only problem is, I can't reach the door! Until the stuff is all put neatly back into the closet, I can't get out of the room!

The next step in the Chesterfield will be here tomorrow. I promise. Can someone slip a pizza under the door, so that I can keep cleaning?

See you tomorrow.

Something's Missing....

Yesterday I got very little done. I kept running back to the computer to see if Blogger was back where it should be....Nope....Over and over. They did have a message saying that they would put back Thursday's blogs that seemed to be making trouble. So far, they are still missing.

I am not looking forward to it, but I will try to re write it and attach it to the bottom of this one somehow if it doesn't show up.

The calamity scared me into doing something that I should have been doing all along. Walter gifted me with a "My Book". It's a memory thingy for saving a book when you are writing one....I am not, but I wanted it, so that I could save the blog entries if something happens. I spent most of the morning fiddling with that and saving a year and a half worth of blogs. I am going to have to go back through and do it so that only the blog itself and the comments are saved. Right now I have all of the stuff on the sidebar saved over and over. Wasted space. One copy of that would be sufficient.

So. Not a lot of minis got done. I did paint the outside of the Apron annex to match the outside of the townhouse.

Before it was even dry to the touch, Tessie was in there rearranging things. She now has all of the aprons and one nightgown squeezed into the top....Somewhere along the line, she managed to go shopping. The bottom is filled with boxes and bags full of stuff. I may have to nominate her for "Clean House" on the Style channel if she doesn't cut it out. Hmmmmm....I wonder if they do mini houses?

She did manage to get the doors closed with some pushing and shoving.....Then when they popped open again, she pulled out a couple of the boxes and tried standing on them to get up to the top.

She gave up after a few tries and declared that she needs a ladder or some folding stairs to get up there.....

I asked why she stuffed everything in there like that. She replied,"You know that I need room in the townhouse closet for my dress up clothes."

Actually, I didn't even know that she had dress up clothes....Please tell me that this is not a sign of things to come.

Before I quit for the day, I think that it was Minka that wanted to see the pomegranates as they progressed. I went out and took a couple of photos. Here are the next two stages.

The first one is where they have lost their petals. The front part starts shrinking down that the back starts filling up with the seeds....

Next, they start turning green and swelling. As you can see, we are going to have a bumper crop this year. I will probably take some of the smaller ones off, so that the larger ones will have room to grow. That's how you get the ones the size of grapefruit.

Now I am going to go do some more room cleaning.(Don't tell Tessie that I am really eating bonbons and reading Steven Tyler's new biography. It's really good so far.) I will probably be checking to see if the missing text has returned about every half hour.

See you tomorrow, hopefully with all of my entries in place.

Well....So far, no missing post.

An Apron Annex Is In Order......

I should have known that it would come to this....Tessie announced, this morning, that she needed more closet space for her aprons. "It can't be in the townhouse. I would have to cut the size of the bedroom by at least half. I need a brand new space."...

I tried very hard to ignore her. It didn't work. I heard her rummaging around the workroom. The next thing I knew, she had commandeered a small hanging cabinet. Her idea being, that it would hang on the wall near the townhouse, so that she could easily reach the aprons.

"Come on! It will be easy!", and with that said, she whisked it away to the kitchen. In about half an hour, I had it wallpapered, floored and a pole arrangement, like the one in the townhouse closet installed.

It wasn't easy, what with Tessie trying to fill the closet before it was finished and Widget helping out any way he could....His idea of helping is pushing in to get his ears scratched.

I showed this before, but I will repeat. It is an easy way to install closet poles. I simply cut a couple of boards to stand at each end of the closet. I drilled a hole in each one. Then I cut a skewer the length of the closet space. I won't give measurements. Each closet is different.

After I finished installing the rod, I started making wire hangers. Bending them as fast as I could, I made enough to hang five more aprons.

That makes a total of eight hanging up now.

Tessie has lots more to hang. It looks like I will be making wire hangers at Wednesday Witches today. I also still have to sew fasteners to the waistbands.

"Casey!!! Help me with this door!". Heaven forbid that she would put down the aprons and open it herself....

OK...I opened the door. Now you can see what I am up against....Lots and lots more aprons to hang.....Very little space to hang them in....

I will try for some of the shorter ones to hang on the bottom floor.

Unfortunately, the top is already almost full. If she keeps it up, the annex is going to need another annex....and another.....and maybe even another.

I just hope that once this annex and the regular closet are stuffed, she will be satisfied....

Just dreaming again, I know.

See you tomorrow with a finished apron annex.

Hanging Up...

We are still working on the closet. This morning Tessie dragged out her big sewing box, where she currently keeps all of the aprons and other clothes.

By the time I arrived, she was blanketed in a mountain of clothing, mainly aprons.

She picked out eight pieces to hang.

When you hang mini clothes, they don't look right unless you pin them on a pin board and spray them with hairspray......Or Tessie's secret formula...

I caught a shot of Tessie and her trusty assistant, Zar working on that. Tessie had numerous bottles and jars scattered around the worktable. Zar stood patiently by with one of Nikki's http://nikkinikkinikki72.blogspot.com/ famous bloody candles. It seems that the candle is part of the formula. Very messy. I think that unscented, extra hold hairspray is simpler. And besides, it can be rinsed out when the clothing is needed again.

Currently, the clothes are drying on their hangers, so I can't really do any more today. Please notice that Tessie found the Christmas apron and her hat while we were sorting out.

She is ready for Christmas now....Even if I'm not....Back to work.

See you tomorrow.

In the Closet.....

The six year old mind strikes again...... This morning neither Tessie or I felt in the mood for more Christmas. We both wanted to do something different.

Tessie, aiding and abetting the six year old, slyly suggested working on the townhouse that we had both been ignoring for a while now.

How could I refuse? Tessie didn't screech or whine. She simply asked if we could work on her closet. I agreed at once.

Simple, quick project. Just what I needed.

Remember those nine compartment, dollar shadow boxes that I bought at Dollar Tree some time ago? I ran one through the saw and cut off three of the boxes.

The side that I cut off will go against the wall, so will never be seen.


Next I glued it to a removable wall. I still have to do the hallway and stairs behind the closet. When that is finished, I will be able to just slide the whole thing into place.

I cut and glued some half inch scale crown molding to the top and bottom edges on two sides.

Then I used chair rail molding to fancy up the front of the dividers and shelves.

Tessie insisted on painting the whole thing, wall and all, light ivory with Ceramcoat.

The six year old couldn't wait to see what it looked like. I slid it into place. Hey! It fits! The side wall isn't glued in yet either. Thus the crack.

Once I chase all of the animals out, I will pull it back out and put a second coat of paint on the shelves. Tessie lost interest after the first coat.

There will be some kind of hanging rack where Zar is standing when I am finished.

I imagine that before I am done Tessie will want more room for her clothes. You see, she seldom changes her clothes unless she gets new ones, but she has to have some place to store the ones that she doesn't wear. You know the philosophy. She says, "As soon as I get rid of any of them, I might decide that I want to wear them again......" She feels about clothes, the way that I feel about miniature supplies. Only mine reads "Never throw anything useful away." Why do you think that I have to do so much cleaning in the workroom?

Speaking of the workroom. It is already starting to pile up again. I should go pick things up in there.

See you tomorrow.

But....There's a Hole in the Wall!!!

This morning I decided that I need a better plan for the workroom. I am actually using it now, but the organizing of the place is complete chaos. I have some of the same things in three different boxes, in three different places. It just doesn't work.

So....I went to work on one bookcase. It is the one that I have to look at when I am working. If nothing else, I needed a better view.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I didn't take a before photo....This is the after. I went through every box and cleaned them out. I relabeled most of it. I still have some labels to make, but after I do that, this one bookcase will be much more efficient.

As I said, I cleaned every box, even the miniature corner box on the second shelf. It really needed doing.

Here's the after shot of that one. Remember to poke the photos.

I was on a kick of doing small boxes with armoires and closets in them a while ago and this is one of my favorites.

As soon as I finished, Tessie moved in for the kill. She has commissioned me to make her a round beaded bag like the one that she is pointing at in the photo. However.....She doesn't like blue. She will pick out the beads as I make it. It sounds like a tutorial is coming.

She watched me for a while. She zealously pointed out every little speck of dirt and anything out of place as I went.

Finally, when I couldn't stand it anymore, I turned around and told her, in a voice that was a little too loud, "Go clean your own room!"

She stomped her feet and disappeared. I kept hearing clunks and a lot of banging.....Wait a minute....The noise was coming from the computer room... That's not her room! It's ours!

Remember the "secret" storage room that she has behind the wall in there? Yup....She was cleaning, with the help of Zar. His eyes looked a bit glazed over, like he was not exactly sure why he was there.

They have pulled the whole room out of the wall! Tessie turned and calmly said, "Don't worry about the hole. It's not very big. You can patch it in no time."

I gritted my teeth and hissed at her, "Fix it, and fix it NOW!"

Thank goodness for her zapping capabilities. I blinked my eyes and the hole was gone, but so was the room that she was working on. Before she could knock a hole in another wall, I yelled at her to put it in the workroom on a shelf.

Amazing! She followed instructions. I went into the workroom. Granted, there was a pile of debris on the floor in front of the book shelf....What was on the shelf, was now on the floor and Tessie had centered that awful storage room on a most prominent shelf.

At least it wasn't one that I had already finished cleaning. It should be interesting to see what she has stowed away in that room. When she finishes, I might just have to set it up as a bedroom. As I remember, that was the intent for the box before she stole it and zapped it into the wall.

I wonder how long her job on the wall is going to last? After all, most of her fix it zaps are only temporary and wear off after a while.

I need to go back to work now.....Only 5 more shelf units to go....Then there's the closet..... and the desk....

See you tomorrow.

Still Digging

I know that this is getting boring for you. I am still cleaning. I probably will be until the end of time at the rate I am going.

While I was cleaning I found 3 cases with stuff left over from the last show/sale I did a couple of years ago. My daughter and I talked each other into doing it. I told her I would do it if she would help. She is actually pretty good at miniatures when she puts her mind to it.

We were both into fashion big time back then. I have been interested since taking history of fashion classes in college and she as a Librarian at an art college here in town. The college was heavy into teaching fashion. She has gone on to the county library system, but is still interested.

We sold quite a bit, but still had some left over. I plan to make an accessory shop eventually. I am thinking of reviving an old twenties leather hatbox that I had made into a hat shop at one time. I used it as a display at shows. I was selling hats.....Logical? It has gotten beaten up over the years and is way up on a high plant shelf that I call my attic.

Anyway, these are some of the things that I will be putting in it.

First there are the hats. I am going to have to make a decision on what era to go with. Probably Victorian. The mid to late Victorian had the widest selection of different shapes being worn at the same time.

The three top hats you see here are all made of velvet ribbon. It's the kind you see in flower arrangements and such. The roses and bows are all silk and some of the lace is silk.

The yellow one on the bottom left is made of straw braid. The nice thing about that is you can make the brim in different shapes just by pulling a wee thread that runs the length of the side of the braid.

The other two are made of #24 congress cloth. The crowns are wet and stretched over either a bead or a dowel end, wrapped with a rubber band and left to dry into the right shape. The brims are then cut to fit the crown and glued on. These also have silk trim. The yellow one has tiny feathers.

Next we go to the shoe department. Once again I shall have to make a choice of dates. The high button shoes and the mules on top of the lowboy would all fit the Victorian era. They are made from patterns I designed. They are trimmed in silk and lace and have tiny no hole beads down the side for buttons.

The rest of the shoes on the floor are all modern. My daughter made the flip flops and the slippers. I made the blue sandals the alligator heels and the purses.

Somehow I ended up with all of the leftovers, hers as well as mine. Mind you, I am not complaining. I can use them in all kinds of scenes. She knows that she is welcome to come over to what she calls "The Mom Store" whenever she needs anything for crafts or miniatures.

I am thinking that there will have to be two stores tho. One will be Victorian and one modern.

Last we have the bag and purse department. This bunch is mine. They are mostly modern in design. This is another argument for two shops, as I see it.

Some of these were not for sale and will never be repeated. The drawstring bag on top actually opens.

Two of the purses on the floor have kidskin gloves and scarves hanging out of the top.

The black leather satchel also opens and is lined.

The small navy and white one at the bottom is made of a scrap of an antique silk kimono. The handle on that is real gold. That one is one of the ones that you will have to fight me for. I'm keeping it.

The ridiculous thing is, I will have to make more to fill the stores. Here we go again!

Back to the big bad world......See you tomorrow.

Progress.....I think.

This morning the real world crept in. I spent the morning in the front yard with my husband trimming the big mesquite tree and raking up needles. Not nearly as much fun as minis, but then what is?

I did make a little progress on the Colonial Kitchen box. Here's proof.

I built the hearth out of foam core. I won't bother you with photos of the first coat of gesso that I put on the walls and both sides of this. It would be literally like watching paint dry. Just take my word for it.

I will show you, instead, a couple of costumes that I have made. They are a part of a series that I am doing on historic dress. That was one of my fields of interest when I was in college.

This first one is a walking dress from 1895. It was copied from an illustration from Harper's Bazaar that year.

I made each dress with accessories from the same illustration.

I added a hand drawn sketch of how the clothes would have been worn to the back of the box.

The hat is straw with silk roses.

The parasol is silk.

The second one is from the 1840s. It's a Promenade Dress(fancy name for another walking dress) from 1840.

The interesting thing about this one is that the collar of the dress is actually made of a scrap of fabric, I believe from a nightgown, from 1840! I bought a box of antique lace and fabric. I was lucky enough to get parts of what was probably a wedding nightgown. It was hand made(before the invention of the sewing machine in 1849) and hand embroidered with the lady's initials and the date. You can see a scan of the embroidery at the bottom, in front of the dress.

This is one of my favorite pieces just because of that scrap of fabric. Someone must have really loved that nightgown to save the pieces for over 150 years.

OK, I have stalled you long enough for today. I am going to go collapse now.

See you tomorrow.

Taking the Day Off......

I decided to start working on the bed for the Mystery House this morning. It is going slow. I decided on a Clairebell brass bed that I have been saving for a long time. I have had it for almost 20 years and never dressed it. I would say it's about time I used it. I have the bed skirt pleated. Until I get further along I'm afraid you will just have to look at something else.

This is a close up of one of my armoires. I think that I mentioned it in one of the other entries.This one was great fun to fill. I made the sheet sets simply by cutting and folding. I tied each set with silk ribbon to match and finished each one off with a silk rose.

If you want to try your hand at making some,just use light weight cotton and remember what Martha Stuart always tells us to do with real sheets and towels. There should be no edges showing......Always fold the material towards the center so that all you see is folds. Fold all of the side edges towards the center and then fold all of the ends of that long piece to the center. No edges showing.


The blankets are just folded material. The same folding technique was used on those. Thanks Martha!

The perfume bottles are beads with jewelry findings for lids.

The hat was a handwoven Mexican import in wild colors. I painted it and decorated it with silk roses.

Mr. Toad is behaving himself today. He got into the brandy snifter last night.....


The second one was a purchased armoire. I simply painted it black and attached a jewelry finding to fancy it up.


I covered the inside of the doors with lace.


The sheets in this one are the same as the other one. There's a secret to the sheets. At one time I was thinking of doing a bed and bath store. I made sheet sets until I was blue in the face. Then I decided I didn't want to do that. Thus I had filler for the armoires.

My daughter made the zebra striped bag. Yes. She actually does minis once in a while.

The beaded bags and the necklaces on the doors are made with #15 and smaller beads. The top one is flat circular peyote stitch and the bottom two are round peyote stitch.


The necklaces are done on fine wire and finished with a hook clasp. They can actually be worn by the fashionable 5" lady.


The wicker basket on the floor has all of the goodies for m'lady to have a fabulous spa treatment. The larger jars are really filled with bath salts.

The shoes are simple mules. One of these days I am going to have to do a tutorial on them. Very easy.





That's it for today. Back to the bed.

There will be a slight pause......

This is going to be a short entry today. Real life is interfering. I had to make lasagna for real, not the mini kind.

Here's something to keep you busy.

This is my pet alligator, Friskie. I had to name him that because of the name on the bowl It seems to fit his personality tho. He is kind of like George. You will see him wander into a scene from time to time. I didn't make him. I do love him tho. He just seems to add something to the scene.

I also have a pet toad. You can see him in this photo in his little basket by the right leg of the armoire. I didn't make the toad but I did make the armoire. It was the project at an Arizona State day several years ago. I made most everything else in the scene. Oops! Not the little carved wooden jar by the left foot of the armoire. It was handcarved in India. It opens to store secrets.

Anyway, I thought I would stall you with cute pets until I can get back to work tomorrow.

I am, at present, cleaning up the quilt shop. WOW! You guys really know how to party!! OK. Who stuffed the jelly roll into the button bowl???

See you tomorrow.

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!

I Tried!

Honest I did. I cut little pieces of brick. I glued. I got to 3" above the finish line and then guess what? Yup. I got distracted. LOST........No I wasn't wandering around in the dark. I was watching the TV show. I don't think it was worth the 3" I didn't finish. Oh well. There is always today.

Lets see if I can distract you so that you don't notice I didn't finish the wall..... Do you like mini purses and bags? This was a bunch that I did for a mini show a couple of years ago.....

Some of them actually open. The drawstring works on the striped one. The cream colored one on the floor to the left has a matching wallet with money inside.

That didn't do it? Darn!

Purses with shoes that match?

The turquoise one is front is silk. The other one with the matching shoes is real suede.

No?

You all are hard to sidetrack!

Just lots of shoes? These were all made for the same show as the purses etc. above.

Somehow I don't think this is working. I give you 14 pair of shoes and a couple of purses to boot(no pun intended) and you still want to see progress on the bricks.

I give up! Back to the bricks. See you tomorrow.

Sidetracked.....

I didn't get anything done on the 9$ house today. More important things to do. I had to meet my daughter for coffee and go shopping at the antique mall.

It used to be she wasn't particularly interested in antiques. Now that she is a serious grownup, she had changed. Now we haggle over who gets what. It is much more fun this way. When she was younger it was "Oh mom......Do we have to look at this?". Now It is "Oh Mom!!! Look at this!!!!". Yup. Definitely more fun.

Anyway, I will just fill in with a bit of eye candy for you to look at. This is a closet that I built a couple of years ago.

I built it while my daughter was working as the librarian at a design college here. They are heavy into fashion design and she had the job of choosing all of the new books for the library. I have a background in fashion from college days and loved all of the books that she was finding. I started making mini clothes on hangers. I had done a lot of purses and shoes before so I had plenty of those to put in it. The hatboxes were from a site on the net. The rest of it is all my own work. Oh! Except for the beat up doc martins on the floor. They are from England.

After I had some of the clothes in it, but before it was finished, she claimed it. No arguing. She got it when it was done.

Here is a closeup of a few of the things inside.

The hangers are plastic coated paperclips.The beige pantsuit is an actual pattern from Mc Calls or Simplicity. The turquoise sweater is made from a sock.

Theoretically, they could all be put on mini dolls. They probably never will be tho. The closet will stay neat and tidy, unlike my own, forever and ever.

I am going to try to put a new entry on here every day. Sometimes old. S ometimes new. We shall see how long that lasts........

Please drop by and check things out. Comments are always welcome.

See You Tomorrow.