Only time for a fast update, but I would hate for my little blog to feel neglected - so here goes...

I have been putting more effort into my dollhouse.  It is finally ready to be erected, but I could use an extra pair of hands, so I am stuck in a 'holding pattern', waiting for my fiancee to find the time (and patience) to help me.  He's wonderful, but like a ferret - either 90 mph or asleep!  HAHAHA, I can't wait to tell him I just wrote that - he will laugh so hard!!!  Seriously though, painting porch railing is b.o.r.i.n.g.  Windows, too.  Don't get me wrong, doing anything with my dollhouse is for me like being on holiday, but I just had to put that out there.  Anyone else feel the same way?

I have been making a few minis, though.  I made up a couple batches of bread loaves, 6 pizzas, and a couple of iced cakes with matching slices, one in pink and the other, lavender.  They have pretty sprinkles all over.  OOooh, quick tip for making good icing:  use about half TLS and half corn starch!  I was having trouble getting my icing thick enough to look, well, like icing - all lumpy and swirly.  I decided to risk it and it worked!!!  Yaaaay!  I had plenty left, so I made up some chocolate truffles with lavender crosses and swirls.  Using a toothpick, that icing really held together to make a loooong thin string for decorating the tiny candies!

Oh yes, I made a sofa using directions from this link! It was easy, and turned out great!  I thank my fiancee's mom for buying me the fabric...  It has taken me a while to decide what I wanted to make with it, but a sofa was a great option because the pattern and color  (pale green with hearts and stripes) fit into my ideas for the living area of my dollhouse.  I want to make it sort of 1950's country-ish...  Cute, but not cutesy.  I happened to have some dark green fabric that looks good next to the sofa, so I think it will be made into a chair.....hmmmm.

Now, I need to make an inventory of what miniatures I have ready to sell, and what miniatures I wish to add.  I think I am about ready to open up shop on Etsy!!!  Wish me luck.  My goal is to make enough money to merely keep making miniatures - break even, if you will.  Of course it would be nice to make a little more so that I can dress my dollhouse with pretty furnishings.  Oh yeah, I have a couple of roomboxes in my head that are screaming to be made...  Gosh, am I obsessed, or what?