The last step for the kitbashed sink cabinet is to add the countertop. I started by cutting 3/16″ x 1″ strip wood to fit on the left and right of the sink. When I put these in the nook to see how they fit, the piece on the left skewed so the right corner is […]
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The kitchen sink cabinet I’m making from two Cassidy Creations Oak Washstand kits has decorative trim under the center cabinets (lined up under the sink). At the bottom of the left and right sides, I’d planned to put a plain piece of wood flush with the front of the cabinet. But this looks weird to […]
Let’s get back to the sink cabinet bashed out of two Cassidy Creations washstands. Here’s where I left off: Normally, the sides of the washstand are made by attaching long skinny pieces to thin rectangles. I had planned to use the thin rectangles for the cabinet doors, but since they’re slightly too long, I decided […]
Back in 2023, I bashed several Cassidy Creations kits into kitchen cabinets for the Mansard Victorian. The lowers and uppers are made from two kitchen cupboard kits, a changing table, and a wardrobe, with a sea captain’s chest for the hood. I have a Cassidy Creations sink in the bump-out. I’m getting ready to hook […]
I posted a picture of my rocking chair on the Half Scale Miniatures Facebook group and got a suggestion to spread out the legs more so the chair wouldn’t look top-heavy. This hadn’t occurred to me, but it seems obvious in hindsight. I wiggled the legs off and removed the stretcher bars, to replace them […]
When I posted about the Mansard Victorian’s nursery, I left off wondering if the William Clinger rocking chair was a good fit for this room. I’ve had my eye on this comfy-looking JBM rocking chair, but it’s expensive. It seemed like it would go well with the nursery furniture, but I didn’t want to buy […]
With the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom finally finished, I can now move on to the rooms on either side of it: a bedroom on the left and a nursery on the right. I started with the nursery because the electrical will be a little less complicated. (But only a little.) I originally bought an assembled Cassidy […]
Immediately after I posted my last entry, I decided I couldn’t live with this awful corner after all and I started thinking about how I could fix it. Turns out it wasn’t that hard. I started by laying the wallpaper/wainscot piece for the right wall (which wasn’t glued in yet) on top of a new […]
Fourteen months after I started the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom by kitbashing Cassidy Creations kits into a linen closet, I’ve finally hit the home stretch with this little room. Something that was holding me up was my indecision over whether I should finish the area behind the bathroom door. The door is set in a false […]
Multiple people have asked me recently what I’m working on mini-wise, and I’ve said I’m working on nothing, and it’s because of Daisy. She’s around 17 months old now (the vet actually adjusted her age a few months younger than we thought she was), and she’s doing well with training, but she still has a […]
I was recently trolling eBay, as I far too frequently do, and came across an auction for a half scale bed and two Windsor chairs for $23 Buy It Now. The bed was meh, but those chairs looked suspiciously like William Clinger chairs. Even if they weren’t, they looked nice enough to take a chance […]
I’ve been working on the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom for way too long. I started it last April when I bashed two Cassidy Creations kits into a linen closet and then dropped off over the summer when Momma’s Kitchen (and a new dog) diverted my attention. In September I got back to it for a little […]
Yikes, it’s been a while. I haven’t been working on anything lately, which depresses me because it’s been almost a year since I started the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom… at this rate that house will be finished in 2040 or so! But I also need to finish posting about the dog vignette I made for Christmas […]
To electrify the dog roombox, I used LEDs and supplies from Creative Reproductions 2 Scale and Evan Designs. The roombox has two can lights and a flickering Log ‘n Flame. I got warm white can lights (they also come in pure white). The log includes a circuit board and multiple LEDs that blink at different […]
While I was (secretly) working on the dog roombox to give to Geoff for Christmas, the weather got cold and he got the platform down out of the garage so Daisy can lie by the fire. She likes splooting on it… …but she likes staring into the fireplace even more. With the false ceiling and […]
When I bought the shadow box from PinkSeagullDesigns, I had an option to get it painted or unpainted. The painted ones looked nice and I would have liked to save myself some time, but none of the colors offered were quite what I had in mind, so I got the unpainted one. I unscrewed the […]
When I ordered my miniature dogs from Lucy Francis, I sent her reference photos and measurements for Daisy (as best I was able to get them on a wiggly puppy, without Geoff’s help) and some I had for Rosy from when my sister knit her a sweater years ago. The dogs’ sizes came out good […]
Squeezing in one last post for 2024! The blog has been neglected lately because I have been hard at work on a secret project. I surprised Geoff with this roombox for Christmas. I’ve been wanting to make this vignette since our sweet girl Rosy died last year at the age of fifteen. Not long after […]
Sometimes instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour, I stay up late scrolling through eBay and Etsy looking for interesting half scale stuff. The best finds are the ones where the seller doesn’t know what they have. Last week I randomly searched Etsy for “1:24 window” because once like two years ago there […]
Today’s post is a mishmash. In the past few weeks I’ve made a few great purchases and I want to show them off. First up, we have the Sugar and Tea canisters that match Momma’s Kitchen! I’m so excited to have found these. I got an email from Diane Siegler, who reads my blog, saying […]
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