First up, here's one of the early dolls I've made from polymer clay -- she's actually my first doll -- sitting on our new settle in front of the fireplace I worked on yesterday. The settle is from an eBay seller. Above her head you can see the brass double candle sconce I painted black. The rug on the wall I also bought from an eBay seller -- I'm very pleased with it. The enormous cat's name is Ralph Roister Doister, after one of our cats, whom he greatly resembles.
Here's a complete view of the Great Hall as it looked this morning. The minstrel's gallery to the left hasn't been glued in place -- we're still working out how the little inhabitants of the castle are going to get to it :) My husband rejected the stairs I had worked out as unrealistic, so we now think we'll cut a door to it from the library which will be next door in the Tower.
(Am I nuts, or do other people turn on the lights in their dollhouses or roomboxes nearly every day and just gaze with profound satisfaction at the tiny world they're creating?)
Looking at the photo I realize that we really have to deal with those windows -- we haven't figured out the best way to divide them or frame them or anything, so for the moment they're just big ugly holes.
Here's the table, groaning with the books the kids and I made last week.
It's amazing what scraps of leather, pieces of balsa wood and gold paint can do, eh? This is a very good craft to do with children --even very young ones can produce satisfying results, although you'd have to watch them with craft knives. If you cut the scraps of balsa wood for them, thin leather can be easily cut with scissors, though. (The children making these books were 9, 12 and 15). If you get the grain of the balsa wood going the right way, it looks very like pages when it's been gilded. If you get it the wrong way (as I did, nearly every time) you just shelve them and hope for the best!
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