Ok so a bit of a slow start here for me at my blog, but I have had a long holiday and that was really nice! :)
So the best news since last time is that I've got TWO new houses! My first ones actually!
I whished for a Dremel tool kit this christmas, for my future doll house building projects, and I got one!! Hurra!! I was soo eager to have time to try it out when I left my parents place after christmas, and wondering where to start.. wine boxes maybe.. I was not sure. But I didn't have to wonder for long. As I came home and entered my livingroom/work room there this new object was standing on the floor, a dolls house!! Wow!
It was a christmas gift from my good friend Katti, the least crafty (pyssliga) person I know! She had taken the time to find me this shelf as a base, searched the flea markets and internet for things to put in there, glued up wall papers in some of the rooms and designed half of the house! Wow! I did not expect that! I was really touched! And, she admitted she had had a lot of fun doing it and a new found insight in my interest that before had been totally wierd to her! haha.
Anyways. I got it with the intention that I could do what ever I wanted with it and now with my new Dremel, my fingers are itching to get started and my mind is spinning with questions about what kind of house I will make of this.
I have yet only had time to strip it to the core; take down the wall papers and cleaned it out (whitch felt quite bad considering the time and effort my friend had put into it.. but, I want to make it my own project, from scratch.. so.. it had to be done).
So now I'm laying the plans for the house. What kind of house? What era? In what invironment will it be set? City, forest, country side? Who will live in it? And so on..
I'll come back to these plans later as I go.
But now for the other house! :)
I was working a week in Trollhättan on a movie shoot in january. And as I drove by a second hand store one day I saw a dolls house piled high upon the vast mix of furniture, krinkets, gadgets and stuff that crammed the store from floor to ceiling. So, I just had to go there!
And to my surprise, I not only found what I was looking for, I also found three other dolls houses! wow! And they were all entirely different. The one I scoped in the window was not the one that finally followed me home.. what I found was this yellow house with a removable ceiling and otherwise all intact walls. I liked it because of the different design, the swedishy cottage look to it (that also reminded me of my grandparent's old house in Finland) and the robust foundation.
It is a bit roughfly built. The entrance door is not openable (or whatever you call that) and I also suspected a bit larger than 1:12th scale, which I try to work with. But all and all a very good base to renovate from and I got it at a very good price too!
So now I have two projects to do!
Oh, I wish I was retired! Whith no other obligation than to spend my time on my hobbies!
