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Kitchen stool- almost there

on February 3, 2010 in Uncategorized

I’ve finished assembling the stool, looks okay to me. At least, I’ve never made it before, whole new experience, and I’m feeling excited about the process. I haven’t done any finishing yet, so the table looks darker:

I think I need to make 5-10 more to make it perfect:)

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Kitchen stool

on February 2, 2010 in Dollhouse, Furniture, Furniture, WIP

The final semester is over, and I’m free till April! This means that I can get back to my dollshouse:) That’s a huge relief for me – last month was absolutely crazy ( I guess, this was my favorite word this year), I had no time at all. I hope that I’ll be posting lots of updates now.
This week started with the idea of making some furniture – I had a kitchen table made several months ago and its style doesn’t allow me to use it in the dollshouse, so why not making a roombox? I guess I’ll make it a kitchen. So I thought it would be nice to make couple of kitchen stools first.
Legs are almost done:

I’m using pinewood and actually not happy with the one I bought. It turned out to be too fragile – wrong shop, next time I won’t make this mistake. This week I’m planning to buy mahogany and basswood. See you soon!

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Dollshouse.tv

on January 23, 2010 in Uncategorized

Just found some pretty interesting source – dollshouse.tv. It’s a subscription-based, and I really liked it! Lots of projects to make, interviews and such. I think I’ll need to buy a tablesaw!

 
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Hardware Shopping

on January 13, 2010 in Tools and Equipment, Uncategorized

Recently I found pretty good store near my house, they sell a lot of router bits for Dremel and Proxxon, and also they sell some miniature hardware, which is a a bit out of scale for mini stuff, but sometimes it’d fit. And the price is good!

 

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Some good finds

on January 9, 2010 in Worth Seeing, Worth Seeing

I used to study Japanese at the uni, so sometimes I check on Japanese mini blogs. This one is one of the new ones I found and loved:-

fatesmile.exblog.jp/.

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After long-long holidays…

on January 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

Hi everyone!

Sorry for being away for such a long time. December was killing me – exam after exam, lots of studying, preparing for graduation work. Though this will be my second diploma things are still the same – hard work. This month I have to go through almost 20 books for the graduation work:(

Well, I won’t be away anymore!:)

With my dollhouse I’ve managed only to finish the flooring and some of the walls painting on the second floor, and windowsills

White room above should the bedroom, I’ll paint the walls, just need to choose the ornament. Then I made the wallpapers for the living room.

The floor here is oak veneer. Also I need to make plinth for this room. It should be more European style than the others which would be more traditional looking. So the whole thing would be – 19th century, the beginning of it.:) That’s how easily I switch centuries.:)

Tomorrow I’ll show you some pics that inspired me to make it this way. Something more about Russian history. See you tomorrow!

 
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Museums, disappointment.

on December 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

When I started working on the interior I was a bit frustrated. I knew some general  tips about making it in Russian style, but how it would be in details – I had no idea. My solution was to buy and download some good books about Russian history and its material culture. I actually bought a lot of such books, and one was just great: I’ve found that, for examples, the walls in the houses of rich people were decorated with red leather (we’re talking here about 17th century not scary Communists, hehe:)) or with certain types of fabric. Hm, now I’m thinking should I do the same. I have some ideas, you’ll see:)

The next thing – pictures and photos of traditional Russian houses. Best way is to look for Kustodiev or Vasnetsov’s paintings. The rest – museums. And here’s what gets me – I live in Moscow, so we have pretty good, no, very good museums. One that you might like – is Russian Historical Museum (don’t know the exact name in English) on Red Square. I’ve been to it several times and I totally love it. But what would you do if you live… in Australia, name any other country. If  I were you I’d visit their website, which is bad, no, absolutely useless. The pictures there are sooo small – you won’t see a thing. And it’s not only about this website, check any museum’s page – I’m pretty sure most of Russian museums post very small pictures or don’t post them at all! Even Hermitage – damn Flash and Java, you can’t copy the picture (okay, copyright, I admit) but just the link I can’t copy (though somewhere I can, but still). It’s such a disappointment for me, if you don’t know Russian you won’t find anything, it’s very sad.

 
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Almost a month

on December 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

It’s been almost a month when I posted the last entry.  These 2-3 weeks were quite busy, we have a new addition to our family, this little kitten.

He’s just about 1,5 months old, very cute, very active little boy. So the last week I spent hours with him. He doesn’t let me do anything but playing with him all day long. I guess I  don’t need to say that I couldn’t finish a thing in my dollhouse, just some basic fixes – floors and windows. I hope I’ll be able to post some photos this week. Stay tuned!

 

 
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The Roof – fixed

on November 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

When I was posting this picture I thought maybe I shouldn’t write anything:) I was choosing the decoration for the roof for a week, I didn’t like anything – it was too easy or too difficult and time-consuming. I was worrying too much, then I realized that this is my first big project, and if  I mess something up it’s no big deal, I can fix it later, or don’t fix at all but I always gaining some experience which is the most important for me.
I relaxed a bit and started fixing the roof. And it’s working now!:) You can open the facade without problems. I want to thank Karin, Caterina, Tom Pouce and Sans for great tips, in the result I used fabric as hinges (I forgot to make a photo, sorry, will do it next time).
Some more pictures, I’m really sorry for the quality, I had to use my hubby’s DSLR, and I’m not used to his camera, so they are a bit blurry.

Three pieces you see above will be used for wall decoration.  In russian it’s called (“причелина” – pree-che-lee-na:), hehe, sounds and looks funny in Latin letters). This is the part that covers the corners of the house. I hope to make them tomorrow, and I’m moving to interior. It’s going to be fun!

 
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Small update – first but not the last problem.

on November 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

I’ve finished gluing the veneer on the pediment, and the main part of slope of the roof is done too.

This week I need to decorate the roof and the rest of the house, then I’ll be able to move to interior part. And now I have a problem, I was going to decorate the roof  this way (well, something like this):

But the slopes of my house are longer (it’s ok, depends on the house really). So when I open the facade part of the roof is blocking it.  Here’s what happens when you haven’t planned it all. So I had to think of something. First of all, I thought I wouldn’t decorate the roof at all and do only pediment,  like this (the pediment or should I call it  tympanum, is great here):


Then I thought it would be ok, if I still decorate it the way I wanted before, but with one trick. I need to break it in parts, and the part that is blocking opening of the facade would be on hinges, the smallest ones or I think it would be ok to use some sort of fabric hinges. So when I open the facade part the part of the decoration goes up – well, I hope you get the idea. I think this will go. Anyway, I’ll post the results this week, so we’ll see.

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