A miniature medley

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I painted a tattered looking dollhouse cabinet with doors that opened but didn't have any glass so didn't look good, which I removed to create a nice bookshelf with the feel I'm trying to create in this dollhouse. Colourful and cheerful, rather than "grown up" is my aim here, because I've read and can see that dollhouses for young kids go in for colourful. Victorian style stuff is something older kids go for, but at a younger age the charm would be lost and stuff would really get ruined.

So anyway, here's the mini bookcase stacked with mini books, as well as a mini trash can, a barbell for the fitness conscious doll, a sink that now has a turning faucet, and some colouring in pencils. I didn't make the tortoise under the table, but he keeps making it into the photos because he's so darn cute. :-) I'll call him George, after the last remaining giant tortoise, aptly named Lonely George because when he dies... his species goes kaput. He lives on the Galapagos Islands, bless him.

Here are some of the children's books I shrunk down and made into mini books. Yep, Everyone Poops sits happily alongside Red Riding Hood. Eclectic taste is something to cultivate from a young age, no?





The books open and can be read, though the text is so tiny it's a good job most of them have pictures too.



The lid comes off the little bin and I also made some light switch plates to add that extra bit of detail to the rooms. Pretty soon it's going to start looking really homely, I think. I'll show you the effect when I've fussed with them a bit and glued them in place.

Toodles 'til then!