Hello everyone.  I hope you are having a good summer despite our restrictions.  I have been working a lot in my gardens and battling the ever present weeds, working on my dollhouse and stitching my dollhouse rug to keep myself busy. 

​This morning, I was reading some posts on my online group "CampOn" and came across a wonderful post about another miniature show in England that is being held online this year.  Here is the link: https://miniatura.co.uk/makers/
Each vendor has put a link onto the site and you contact them each to purchase something from them.  The site is still being added to so check back often! 

​As a bit of eye candy for you, here is a photo of the progress I have made on my dollhouse so far...

Today marks the beginning of my fourth week of social distancing and isolation due to Covid-19 and we haven't been able to have our Miniature meetings.  I thought today, I would post some photos of my current miniature project as I have been using the "home time" to work on it.  This is the Leon Gothic Mansion in 1/12th scale.  I purchased it last year from The Little Dollhouse Company.  My plan is for it to become a Beachfront mansion and I will be incorporating everything that I have learned about miniature house building and landscaping so far.  The photo above and below are compilations of my progress to date.
The above photo shows the dry assembly of the house without the turret and my finishing of the first and second floors.  The wood flooring is made up of narrow strips of veneer which I cut out and glued onto painter's quality matboard (it doesn't warp as much as regular matboard).  In the Library, I will be making a window seat and a corner shelf to fill in the right hand corner of the room.  The flooring in the bathroom and sewing room are peel and stick tiles that I found at my local Dollar Store.  All of the wallpapers in the house were printed on my computer.
In the photo below, you can see the Kid's room and Master Bedroom/Sitting room of the third floor, along with the turret, gazebo I plan to have attach to the porch, and the beginning of the siding on the house.  I am currently working on the Master bedroom/Sitting room.  The flooring in this room was made with coffee stir sticks which I lightly stained and varnished.  The flooring in the Kid's room is a fine blanket cloth with a very low pile to look like carpet.  In the Wizard's loft, I have put down tongue depressors as the flooring and stained it dark.  I have left it rough and un-sanded but have put on one coat of sealant to protect the wood.  That stained glass window in the front door were designed by my daughter Cheryl and I painted them using Gallery Glass paint.

I would love to see and post photos of other projects everyone in our club is doing during this time, so please send me photos and a write-up of what you are doing and I can post them here for everyone to see.  During this time that we can't get together, it would be great to see what you are all up to and give us all some wonderful eye candy!
Stay safe and I hope to see everyone soon. 🙂

Our February meeting was devoted to working on our Kitchen in a Cupboard projects.  Progress is being made by everyone and it is fun seeing the different ideas each person has regarding the finishing of them.  One member has even put a little mouse in her kitchen!  See if you can find it when we put them on display at our show in May.
While we were working on our cupboards, we also discussed what we would like to do next year.  The consensus seemed to be that we wished to do several small projects that may lead to a larger one at the end of the year.  For example, one member suggested making flowers then putting them into a flower cart.  We will be open to more suggestions from everyone in future meetings.
Pat M suggested an idea for the "Make and take" table at our show that was well received by those there. 

We also had a visit from a person who had attended our meetings in the past and hope to be able to come to some meetings as her schedule allowed.  Welcome Pat.  We wish to say Hi and hope you are recovering well to Marg L, who had shoulder surgery at the beginning of February.  Our next meeting will be on March 16th.  Hope to see everyone there.

This morning I was reading posts on my online miniature group CampOn and came across an article about a woman in New Zealand who has built a beautiful house.  I liked the article so much that I wanted to share it with you.  Here is the link to the article and a short video interview.  New Zealand Dollhouse    Hope you enjoy it! ​🙂

Welcome back to the members after Christmas.  We had a very productive meeting on Monday Jan 20th and were able to get quite a bit done on the Kitchen in a Cupboard project.  Here is Sue M showing one of her cupboards after it has been glued.
Janet announced that we have reserved Puslinch for October 4th, 2020 for the Miniature Bazaar this year.  Looking forward to seeing everyone again and having a wonderful shopping experience.
Contracts will be going out soon for the May show in Fergus and I will be posting it on the website as soon as I receive it.
This meeting we had a visitor who was very keen to learn about minis. Welcome Jeannette (hope I spelled it correctly), we really enjoyed talking to you and hope to see you again next month.

Below is Sue B's kitchen in progress.  Sue decided to do a modern kitchen and has a microwave and refrigerator! For door handles, she found wide staples in the scrapbooking section that have an embossed design on them.  They look great!

Our next meeting will be Monday February 10th (a week earlier than usual due to Family Day on the 17th).  I will be there to help anyone who needs help with their project and I look forward to seeing what everyone is doing with theirs.