New build!

 About 6 years ago, I found this adorable wretched Witch doll and her vanity on ebay. (I have no idea who the artist is but, if anyone does, please leave me a comment).

I have been meaning to create her the perfect living quarters and have been trying to come up with ideas for her home. I decided to create a take on a Romanian traditional cottage. 

The top 2 stories are made from the Real Good Toys Light Keepers house, and the bottom floor is a custom build. 

It's 1:12 scale. 

More to come!

Did I actually forget to post the finished photos!?

 

This side of the house is the only access point to the jail and laboratory via a cave carved into the mountain. 

The right side of the house with stairs that lead to the structure.

A sneak peek.

 Wiring breaks, and all kinds of hiccups keep me behind in schedule but, it's inches away from being completed!

Almost done!

 I'm hustling like mad. If all goes well, I think the structure and foundation just might be done in a

week or 2! Keeping my fingers crossed.

Meet Fionn Gwenlan, the Zombie hunting Witch

 

All the pieces of the new Zombie Hunting Witche's Halloween House

 It's a huge undertaking but, I'm about 60% done with it! This is entirely a scratch build except for the addition. 

A sneak peek from the Halloween house

 

I realised Halloween was fast approaching...

How could a miniaturist not have a creepy Halloween dollhouse!?
I decided to take a break from the candy shop to get the witches cottage going. Hopefully, she will be done by 10/31!
The kitchen additions interior, and most of the exterior is finished as well as the dungeon. This house is a custom build with the exception of the little addition structure.

1st floor assembled and lights are on!

It took what seemed like forever to paint the porch rails, with all those tiny little holes that I had to get into with a micro paint brush but, they are done, which allowed me to finally assemble the 1st floor.

For the interior lighting, I used canned lights which I have learned to love. The exterior lights are a bunch of 12v bi-pins which gave off a lot of light but, once installed, they barely give off a glow so, I'm brainstorming ways to add more lighting the the exterior.

There will be custom shelves made for the 1st and 2nd floors which will house a good number of candy jars, and chocolates so, the crown molding and baseboards are going to have to wait until after the shelves have been installed.

The house build, itself is a breeze but, the interior furnishings and goodies are all custom, and handmade which sets the completion time back quite a ways. As always, I wish it it finished already!!

On to the next floor's siding and windows!

The beginning of the ice cream counter

This is the base of the ice cream counter which will be housed on the 2nd floor with the cotton candy machine and the popcorn machine. The top of the ice cream counter will have 2" high plexiglass, and sliding rear door. This counter holds 24 small ice cream containers/tubs that I've been working on in between painting and flooring.

1st floor flooring is in!

Flooring the porch on the Abriana

I adore working on perfectly square dollhouses. It's an absolute rarity to find one so, when I do, I can play with flooring styles like this that present little challenges. I'll carry this pattern similarly on the interior as well.

The beginning of The Laughing Lollipop

Now that I'm at the end stages of building the Hannah dollhouse, I was itching to begin another. I needed something fun and lighthearted to create before I start on the new incarnation of a haunted house.
A while back I bought this dollhouse kit called The Abriana 1:12th scale, and at the time, I was leaning toward the structure becoming a shop. It has all the fancy trim, character, and size for shop, and for me, it's kind of an odd structure for a dwelling so, I decided to make it a magical sweet shop, with a cute little German looking witch as proprietor that I got from Oberon's Wood in Whales.

It's a very nice, easy build that has perfect fitting pieces, and the structure is coming together sweetly.
Working on the 1st floor siding now, and in between breaks, and working on the ice cream counter, and a ton of candies and sweets that will be displayed.

I hardwired the 1st floor which has interior canned lights, and the same along the exterior roof line, for a nice, fully lit porch. The wires were strung through the roof, and then will be glued into the canals carved into the sides of the exterior walls, under the siding and down through the flooring where the power will be hiding.

It's been a while and, I'm back!

The last post I made was just before the California Tubbs fire took my home and everything (including all these dollhouses) in it. It took quite a while for me to recover both mentally as well as replacing the physical items. One of the 1st things I wanted to do once I was resettled in my new home was to get going on another dollhouse so, I bought this house called the "Hannah". I got started on it about 3 years ago, and it seems that something-or-another always got in the way of completing it. I got back to the job at hand a month or 2 ago, and it's now nearing it's completion with only the most tedious of things left to do (like the crown molding, and carving the stone on the enormousness chimney. 
Here's where it is today. More to come.

Progress on the Bungalow

I decided on some very wacky pop art wallpaper for the hallway :) This room will be modern/wacky with some secrets.

I chose a soothing yet sexy wallpaper for the bedroom, that matches the peacock theme of the house's front door. I can't wait to get these rooms done! I have fab plans. :)

2 hints about the theme of the Bungalow

There are 2 symbols that I'll share in this post, that will give you a hint as to the theme of the Bungalow. Can you guess what it is? The 1st picture of the glowing symbol is painted on the roof of the dormer window in the bedroom. It's made with glow in the dark paint so that it can be seen at night when the lights go out. The bed is situated just under it.

Do you recognize this glowing symbol?

Making liquor bottles for the bar

I purchased a bunch of un-labeled bottles from a vendor on Ebay, and I printed out some liquor lables for them, and them just glued them onto the bottles. These are kind of fun to make, and you can find the lables on line :) This cart is 1:12 scale

The Haunted Mansion

I'm starting to fill up the Apothecary cabinet. I have several little creepy things to make so, I expect it to take a while before it's completed. Here's a partial shot of the electric chair and it's control box :D

I'm gearing up for Halloween over here, and getting some finishing touches done on the Haunted House. I've been sidetracked by the Bungalow, and realized that it's already September! More to come :)

The Lab Lights On

The Lab

The living room 

The working ceiling fan is in the house :)

 We just installed the working fan by Creative Reproductions to Scale ( CR2S ) You can find them on the web here
:) Here it is. Once the house is completely assembled, I will post another video of the entire house electrified. Next, we are going to start on the 2nd floor.

The Kitchen lights are in as well. This was made easily out of strip wood and swivel lights.

The kitchen. This is the wall that will get the appliances.

Playing with the floor plan

I'm playing with the floor plans a bit before I commit where I need to glue the fire place :) Working on cutting the window trim and the base board. Lastly, the working fan goes in! This floor plan works in one way, and the other floor plan works more if one was actually living there. Divisions, decisions...