Long Weekend!

Hello folks,

I had a nice 4 day weekend. (I took an extra day off after the holiday). I was very productive.

My husband, on his own birthday no less, took me to the dollhouse shop! It's about a 30 minute journey which doesn't sound long when I'm driving to work but somehow this seemed to take forever.

It's a great shop with lots of ridiculously overpriced beautiful things. Here's my haul:














A little lantern, ceiling medallions (wait, are they medallions if they are square?), moulding, velvet carpet, ceiling material, wood flooring, white plastic tile and little stickable paper tiles. And I spent like $100. Huh?

Anyway, I wasted no time! You guys remember the Versailles sitting room, right? Why on earth did I stick on the panels, THEN paint? I painted them white, then tried to do blue around it. Oh it was just a mess.














So I removed the panels and cleaned them up. I was just depressed at all the work, all the measuring, wasted:














So anyway I painted it all. Oh god, it looked terrible:














But then a few coats later... Eh, not so bad:














I'm not crazy about how the paneling looks, since all my little wood stirrers have warped, but it will have to do. (The painters' tape is holding down the warped edges):














But my projects did not end there!:

I put down the marble floor in Josephine's kitchen:














I put up the marble walls and floor in the Spanish house, which is no longer Spanish.













And I got my husband to spray paint the bed in the Spanish house with that "hammered" spray paint. Ignore my crooked windows. I sure do!














I managed to totally ignore the gypsy caravan, which I will post pictures of soon.

So next weekend is all about hardwood floors. Sigh!