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First Blanket

Author: Виктория, October 11, 2009 в Miniature Needlepoint

   When it’s quiet at home, when you’re tired of everything and just want to spend sometime alone.
    Enough of words, I love embroidery! In my doll’s house there should be a lot of it – blankets, towels, tablecloths, curtains.
    I started with blankets for the bedroom on the second floor, I think I’ll finish it in couple days. I got through some antique Russian ornaments of 18th century and here’s the part of what I’ve done:


The ornament is easy, also I’m not sure if it would be on the bed or somewhere in the chests:)


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First floor

Author: Виктория, October 9, 2009 в Uncategorized

The first floor is finished.

 
Now I can officially say – I hate bricks.:) I love the result, yes, it was worth it, but the process, especially at the end, was killing me. When you just use the pattern or draw on the wall it’s much easier, you don’t think of the edges, those tiny parts you need to glue. With the “real” bricks you understand that you should have thought about the size of the bricks and the house before. I didn’t and I learned my lesson:)
To the good part – I also painted the windows. On the second floor too. Though I think I’ll paint them again later on. Also I need to fix one window because I didn’t like how it looked.


Yay! Next on my list – the balcony and the roof.

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Балясины. Снова.

Author: Виктория, October 2, 2009 в Uncategorized

Sorry for not posting anything new lately, I’m quite busy with my graduation work, though it’s second, it’s still lot of things to do.
We’ve finished the parquetry, I’m not going to use it in my doll’s house, it’s just for fun. Now it’s sandpapered and covered with beeswax.

I also finished making the balusters for the balcony, well I need to make two, that will be a bit bigger, so the whole picture would be something like this:

As you can see, the first and the last balusters are bigger, which makes the whole composition very nice.
For now, nine balusters are ready.

I really enjoy working on mini lathe, it takes time to learn but the result is worth it, besides I like the process too:)


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Parquetry in Miniature

Author: Виктория, September 29, 2009 в Uncategorized

We became huge fans of miniature parquetry!:) Several patterns are made, some amazing pictures downloaded.
Starting from the easiest one:

 

It’s 15cm x 15cm. White oak.

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Slow Progress

Author: Виктория, September 25, 2009 в Uncategorized
For the very first time I tried to make a copy of baluster using lathe.
I used pattern and callipers. I can see several mistakes, and one is a bit shorter than another:)
Practice, practice, practice.
Hope I’ll have some good balusters for the balcony one day.

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Arches

Author: Виктория, September 21, 2009 в Uncategorized

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I wasn’t going to post this because it’s still in progress, but here it is.

Half of the weekend was spent on glueing bricks, making  arches, it takes so much time, I didn’t expect it!:) Somehow, I decorate the house instaggered order. I don’t know why.:)

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Windows are finished.

Author: Виктория, September 10, 2009 в Uncategorized

 

 

Sorry for not updating the blog for so long – I had wonderful weekend away from computer.:) Besides my holidays are over and I’m back to writing my graduate work. It will be my second diploma.

 

But I manage to find some time for my doll’s house. I’ve finished making window frames. It looks okay for the beginning, I haven’t painted it yet  – just did some sandpapering. It will be all done after I choose the veneer for the exterior.

There will be a balcony on the second floor, oh well, I haven’t made it yet))


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Window frames

Author: Виктория, September 3, 2009 в Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse, Dollhouse

It was a day of window frames. Glueing, sandpapering, but still I’ve managed to finish only half. The rest is awaiting!:)

To make it more fun I browse through Ads and signs that were made before revolution. Can’t choose the most beautiful, they all are.

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Dollhouse again

Author: Виктория, August 31, 2009 в WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP, WIP

After sending the present to my Mum – I can get back to my house. The first project gave me so much experience, I think I would have changed a lot when I was constructing the house, but.. it’s already done and I’ll fix it all, no doubt. (duh, I hope)

It should be very Russian, very traditional:)



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