About a month ago, Leah bought a beautiful tiny dollhouse for Eleanor and started fixing it up. In true Leah style, this quickly became a creative outlet for Leah and her creativity shown. She posts the most amazing pictures and ideas and her dollhouse is perfect.
Leah found a dollhouse on buy/sell/trade here in Manhattan and told me I needed to buy it and start a new hobby fixing it up for my grands. I am not as creative or artistic as Leah but I took up the challenge and purchased it.
I went over to look and was enamored. It is much larger than the one Leah bought. It was owned by a lady who’d had it since childhood and had all boys so they’d lugged it all over and were ready to part with it. It was dirty and dusty and damaged, set up in their garage. The dollhouse wouldn’t fit in my car so the nice couple put it in their suv and followed me home. It sat in the front room for a week while we went to Denver to have baby June.
Today I started the project. Yesterday I went to Hobby Lobby and eventually found the dollhouse section. It was overwhelming. I took pics and bought some flooring, an exacto knife, wood glue, and some potential wallpaper.
This morning I cleaned the house, laid everything out for pictures, and began doing some glue repairs to the windows, siding and roofing. It is tedious and intimidating but I am jumping in there. I am excited and have much trepidation so I will continue to research and make small attempts. I know its going to be so fun and cool to do the project, see the results AND provide hours and hours of enjoyment to my sweet Grandbabies. Apparently Henry is quite into Eleanor’s and Eleanor hasn’t seen hers yet.
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