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What a wonderful, fascinating, entertaining, time-consuming, addictive, expensive, way to avoid housework!
I haveta tell ya...if you consider (even slightly) making dollhouses and miniatures your hobby you better invest in a really
good crockpot because the husband, kids and pets are going to starve to death if you don't!
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If you have microsoft paint program on your computer you can design your own refrigerator
kid pics! Make anything you like then size to about 1inch by 1inch, print it out, cut it out and stick on the refrigerator.
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To make the lamp you will need
- one fancy large bead
- small round gold finding
- 1/8th dowel cut to 2 inches long
- 1 small wooden spool
- coffee creamer container (empty of course)
- 1 gold sequence bead
- gold seed bead
- gold trim
Glue the gold finding to bottom of large bead. Insert glue into hole in large bead, insert one end of dowel.
Dab some glue on the other end of the dowel and insert into the hole in the wooden spool. Cut trim to fit around
coffee creamer (enough for the top and bottom). Glue trim around the top and bottom of creamer. Attach the sequence
bead and the gold seed bead to the top center of the creamer. Attach the creamer to the wooden spool and voila!
I use tweezers to attach the really teeny stuff. Patience is a virtue!
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To make the fancy clock you will need:
- small wooden disc approximately 1 inch in diameter
- 8 round toothpicks
- gold paint
- picture of clock face (just a bit smaller than the wooden disc)
Using an exacto knife, cut toothpicks into 2 pieces, making one piece 2/3rds length and the other piece 1/3rd (be
careful when cutting!). On the wooden disc, notch 16 holes in the side being careful to space them evenly.
Glue toothpicks into notches on wooden disc, staggering a short one and a long one. After the glue has dried paint the
clock with gold paint. Cut out the clock face and glue to one side of the wooden disc. You could also dab tiny
dots of paint for the numbers using the opposite side of a small paintbrush dipping it in the paint and dabbing it on the
clock. Paint small lines for the clock hands. I used modge podge on the whole clock to seal it.
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