I have built my hallway!!

Hi All,

As usual I am crawling back to blogger after a several months break!  The Christmas season got crazy this year!  I guess I am not as great of a planner as I thought lol.

Anyway, back in this post, I drew out my plan to add a long dark hallway to the mini-mansion.  It was just missing in the original design!  All old mansions need long dark hallways with paintings that seem to follow you with their eyes!

So here it is.  I had already extended the upstairs bedroom wall paper before remembering to take a pic but you can see where the floor board stops on the original kit.  The walls and floors are made out of all different types of wood (plywood, mdf, etc..) anything that was the thickness to match up with the existing RGT kit and the main house.

 Here is where I started extending out the floor boards.  The white floor shows where the original kit ended.  I basically added 4 to 5 inches all the way around in an "L" shape.  This will give me a hallway AND a few more inches in the down stairs dining room and the upstairs bedroom.

Here you can see the upper hallway and the downstairs hallway and dining room floor being extended.  The upstairs carpet will be next!

Here is a closer look at the pattern on the lower level!  I need to get a couple windows to insert and find some matching wall paper to cover up the plywood!  It will get done somehow!  But for now I am over the moon excited about how it came out!

I don't have current pictures but I have also been working hard on the main house.... the bottom floor and the second floor are COMPLETELY FINISHED on the inside!!!  Sometimes you just never think that will happen!!  I am now focusing on the top floor which contains Wednesday and Pugsleys Room and the attic!  I will post another all over tour when I get that done!  I can't wait to show you!  -Ara

Morticia's Chair Redo

Short post for today!  I have been looking over the mansion (as you have probably noticed) and I realized I was unhappy with Morticia's chair.  And if there is one thing I need to get right it is her chair!  Everyone recognizes it from the 1960's tv show.

Anyhow.. you can see the before picture.  I have given it arms, a few more "strings" in the back and a new more detailed paint job.

I also took a picture of it in the mansion and it looks much more at home!  I think it definitely needed the arms!

Thanks for all the great comments lately.... its been great to be back in blogland again!  -Ara

Happy Halloween at the Mansion!

Well, just as the Halloween Holiday should.... it has been putting spooky mansions and long dark hallways on my mind!  Constantly!

My husband will back up my story that for the past few nights (after Bella has gone off to dreamland) I have been sitting in front of the mansion just staring and thinking!  I have already got most of the main structure of my Alison Jr constructed.  And my husband got me the 2 room addition by Real Good Toys that is made for the Alison Jr. and I have that put together as well.  But for me something was missing.

Besides deciding to completely redo the interior of the 2-room-addition, I feel like I need just a little bit more space in those two rooms.  So I have been planning and scheming and sketching... and here's what I have.

The Alison Jr. main house has the red tint and the 2-room addition as the blue tint.

Here are two pages out of my sketch book.  So basically I feel like I am missing my LONG DARK HALLWAYS.  Unless you have a main hallway with a grand staircase, hallways are few and far between in doll house design.  They just take up too much space.  But I NEED THEM!

So I have planned out an L-shaped hallway to wind in between the main house and the Addition.  This hallway will allow several things... more of a separation for Gomez and Morticia's room, room for a second windy staircase to the 3rd floor and wall space so I can hang several iconic paintings to make the place truly Addams!!!

My brain still runs a little bit on Architecture terms so I did a few elevations.  If you are used to reading blueprints you can probably figure out all my sketching.  But I just wanted to show you where I am going!  Any opinions... ideas... things I didn't think of?

I am now in the process of putting measurements to the crazy sketches (the not fun part)  and will hopefully start cutting out wood pieces soon!

Also I wanted to leave you with a couples pics of Bella roaming through the pumpkin patch... I just couldn't resist you know!

She was determined to find the perfect pumpkin!  Happy Halloween to all! -Ara

A few Addams items for sale...

Hi All,

I am just a posting maniac lately!  lol

I just wanted to pop in and let you know I have decided to go a different way in Gomez and Morticia's bedroom (you can see what I have so far here).

I did this part of the house right before I had Bella and now I am reconsidering the direction I want to go in.  Anyway, all of that to say that I am selling the current Addams bedroom set for CHEAP in my Etsy store.

I am selling them cheap because I didn't pay as much attention to detail while getting them done (I was 8.5 months pregnant and proud of myself for doing anything - hah!)  They are still a fun set but you can see foam board if you flip the bed upside down and there's still part of a sticker I can't get off the back of the hutch!!

If you are interested check them out in my Etsy store.

This will be my second Addams bed I am selling off.  I just can't seem to get it right!  I think I am going to try a dark wood now that I have the room put together.  I feel like I have to get their room just right!!  grr... 3rd times a charm?

Thanks all!  -Ara

Give-Away Winner and my new OBSESSION!

Congratulations to Sarah K!  She won this give-away!!  My beautiful sister picked her name out of a coffee cup this morning and now she will receive this fun Halloween package!  Sarah, please email me at my address to the right of this blog with your mailing address and I will get it on its way!

This was such a fun give-away!  Even though not too many entered I got to meet several new bloggers and join some new fun blogs.  I learned the Sarah and I are working on the same dollhouse!  She visited my Clue blog and saw that I am working on a Duracraft Farmhouse.  You can find Sarah K's blog about her "Old Dollhouse" here.  Check it out!

Thank you all who entered!  I enjoyed meeting my new blog followers and I am enjoying reading through your blogs as well!

ALSO,  I have a new obsession....  BOOKS !!!  What a fun way to use up little scraps of fabric and let your creative self go!  I had a blast doing each and every one of these!

 This little white one was difficult to photograph with my phone (I was too lazy to go get the actual camera! lol.  I used crackle paint and it somewhat worked...  I am having fun experimenting!

Here is my stack so far.  I have a feeling it will continue to grow and grow.  Especially as I avoid daunting tasks on the mansion!  These are just too fun!  Ok - off to make more haha.  -Ara

Book Fun and Give-Away Reminder

Hi All,


So I have been seeing some awesome books on several blogs and I was feeling left out of the fun!  So I decided to sit down during Bella's nap time and let mt creativity flow!  So far I have done two and learned a lot!  They are not so easy!

I feel like I have learned a lot just fiddling with these for a couple house.  I have 4 more "pages" made so I will be playing with those more later (maybe tonight after bedtime).

Poor Bella has been sick so she has been sleeping a lot.  I want her to get better fast but I am taking advantage of the long nap time!

Also remember to enter my Give-Away!!  I will draw the winner tomorrow.

If you still have not entered you can click on this link to get all the information and ways to get put into the drawing twice!!

Best of luck to you all!  If Bella feels up to it, she will pick the winner tomorrow!

Now to go find nooks to stick these books into in the mansion.....

Ara

Halloween Give-Away!!!

Hi All,

It's time for a Halloween give away!  I am late getting started on this so I am sorry delivery will be so close to Oct. 31st!! 

If you saw yesterdays post you know that I did a tutorial on how to make these fun spooky shutters for your own projects!  I will be giving away the shutters I made in this give-away (you can repaint to match you project or you could even connect them together to make a fun room divider!).

Also I am including one of my carved boxes that I usually sell in my Etsy Store and a couple of handmade pumpkins! 

All you have to do to enter is comment on this post!  And you can get an extra entry by commenting on any post in my Clue Blog.  I have been doing a lot of work on it and I am shamelessly promoting it through this give-away! It's a project based off of the game Clue (or Cluedo for my friends over the ocean)!

I will draw the name on Saturday Oct 27th so stay tuned!!  That give you about three days to enter and tell your buds!

Thanks again to all my readers!!  You guys are the best, Ara