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Getting Published: American Miniaturist Magazine Featured Article

Gosh, what an honor to have a featured article about my hand painted dollhouses published in the American Miniaturist Magazine! This article was in the Jan 2009 issue. I've included the article here, just click to enlarge to be able to read it better.



When I first started building dollhouses back in the '80's, I painted them the regular way. Just plain solid colors. But in the early '90's I learned (tole) decorative painting techniques and pretty much painted everything in sight. One day, the object in sight was one of my dollhouses. I thought, "Why not?" lol. So I've been artistically hand painting my dollhouses for several years now. I don't know if I could paint one "plain" again. I love cottages of any kind, and the more "quaint" the better. So far, I have built the dollhouses and then done all the decorative exterior painting. The Folk Art Cottage was the exception, because I wanted to do artistic painting on the interior walls. So those were painted before assembling the dollhouse. After I finish the Shabby Chic Dollhouse, I would like to paint wall murals inside the next house I build. I've got to decide on a theme, though. Any suggestions?

Since it's been months since I posted, I thought I would show the progress I have made on my Shabby Chic Cottage Hand Painted Dollhouse. I still need to complete the porch, add the trim and decorate inside, but haven't gotten around to that yet. I work on my miniatures in fits and starts because I do a lot of other crafts and like to switch around. Hope you enjoy the progress so far!

The slide show starts with the stage I am currently at, then goes to the beginning and shows some of the steps in the progress, to date.

If you'd like to see closeups of these pictures, you can visit my Flickr here.

FREE Pattern - How to make an Ornamental Fern

Always wondered how they make those cute little ferns for dollhouses? Here's a quick and easy way to make your own.

Dollhouse Halloween Decorative Room Screens and Pillows

I've been really busy getting ready for the holidays by designing some new dollhouse miniature room divider and dressing room screens. I've got about 11 total for and I think they turned out so cute! People are already shopping to decorate their dollhouses for Halloween and they seem to really like my screens and for that holiday.

I'm going to be adding some free miniature patterns and showing some really awesome, inspiring pictures of dollhouse decorating.

So stay tuned and check back often!

Website is up and running!

Finally, my miniature site is coming together and is somewhat presentable. I got a lot of product uploaded in the last few days but have a lot more to do. I got most the the loaded. Since Halloween is a popular holiday and collectors like to decorate for it.



I also got most of my hand painted dollhouse furniture uploaded, so I'll be putting some pics of those here,too.

I have about 300 more items to put on the website, which is by the way, located here, so it will take me at least another week to get everything uploaded. Once all that's done, I can get back to creating new stuff!

Hand Painted Country Rose Cottage

Since I obviously got sidetracked from painting on the Shabby Chic Cottage dollhouse I was posting about in June, I thought I would put up another slideshow for another house I did earlier. This one is my absolute favorite and I truly wish I had not sold it. Be sure to check out last months posts for more pics! Enjoy!

p.s. if the slideshow stalls or stops, just move your cursor and it will move again....... :)

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