The infamous Dolhouse

Well I fell off the face of the blogosphere for a few months but I am back in action now.

So I thought for today I would put together a little gallery of images from the Dollhouse.
I spent months building the house from painting the walls to getting working electricity in it so I can actually light up mini lamps and ceiling lights!  Even collecting all the little furniture, food and decor bits was an interesting (and time consuming) task.  I don't think the dollhouse will ever be done just as the homes we live in always seem to be flux. However the basic building out of the house is 80% completed.  I will eventually build out the attic/3rd floor when I decide what it should be and put in the dormer windows up there.  Plus the shingles need to be stained and placed!

Anyways enough about construction since that isn't what this project is about... here is the gallery of images!

These photographs are representations of the loss I feel about my mother and father being absent for most of life.

Please feel free to leave constructive comments!  While I will continue to develop this project I have also started another one which I will unveil as soon as possible.  It is great to get feedback though to see general response, find out where I am missing the mark and where I am succeeding!

Thank you!

Mini Mania

Ok so the once a week posting didn't happen but I'm sure that I can keep up once a month... hopefully!


Anyways so I have been building a Dollhouse 1:12 scale.  Me and Ebay have a love hate relationship ... I hate how much time I loose looking endlessly for things to fill my tiny house and yet I love to get things in the mail and potentially use them in the house!

This was the beginning stages of building and painting the house.... thats right bright blue baby!

And since I am still waiting for my electrical stuff to show up (which prevents me from laying down the carpeting and wood flooring) I am doing some studies and story boarding for the house.

  Now if anyone knows me... they know I SERIOUSLY dislike bugs.... So I flipped when I saw this visitor

Then I finally threw out all my trash :)

Getting in the groove

Well being a brand new teacher is its own challenge but actually doing my own work has been an entirely different battle.
(plus I'll show you pics of my studio in the next post)

Doing my lesson plans ect is a day to day basis kind of thing but Im learning!

It's nice that the building always has interesting things going on wether it is someone being creative in their studio, being able to peek into classes or see a piece of art work (a destroyed cake) in the middle of the art building being sketched by a class!  The people are great!

So now I'm finally in the groove and starting my own work.  I am of course taking on another big project.  As we go along I will begin to describe to you why I'm doing this but for now... just know it's all about my revisiting my childhood via dollhouses.

So I bought a dollhouse that is in route to my house as I type.  Funny enough the name of the house is "Lancaster" which is a road I grew up off of.  So when that gets here I will assemble it.  I've read it takes about 60 hours to build... lets hope I survive!  Anyways that is just the construction of the house.  I also get to paint the interior and exterior however I like.  Here are a few screen shots of the house though.

I have also gone EBAY CRAZY with all this dollhouse stuff.  So here are some pics of a few things I got on ebay to start setting up scenes.

gotta love the japanese dollhouse stuff!

my dollhouse needs a view camera... duh

Part of my dish set

I am REALLY liking silly things like this that I don't think most people picture being in a dollhouse.  I have this spilt paint, rolls of toilet paper, modern food containers, a mouse trap, a cigarette ect. that I think are SO clever!

I also bought a doll for my dollhouse.  So far just the one lady "with and unusual face"... it's just painted different than most doll faces but I liked it!  I think it is the blank stare that I just LOVE.  I still have to track down some clothing for her though!

But of course all of this is still on its way in the mail so I am kind of twiddling my thumbs till it gets here!



Anyways after a long stint away from the blog I am BACK!  I will be posting at least once a week... maybe smaller ones occasionally as well.  You can also catch what I am up to on thegoodeyknot.blogspot.com ... that blog is all about my wedding plans and Nathan and I adventuring into the land of refurbished goods.  I am keeping this blog just about Grad school, art and other closely related topics!

If you have any inspiration ideas for me please comment!