It's certainly coming along...

Well, I've made a lot of progress during this last week.  The roof is on, the tower attic is up, and I've painted the rooftop.  

This is what it looks like as I'm typing:

Lookin' good, huh?  I've decided to tackle the dreaded shingling today.  It's going to be tedious work, but if I watch a good movie or something, it shouldn't be too bad.  Right?  Anyway, I've decided against staining and am just going to paint it using an "antiquing" method I read about online.  I'm supposed to put a base coat of paint down and then use a darker paint that's been watered down for a top coat.  I hope it turns out okay.  I would hate to have put in all this work just to have it get screwed up.  I'll just have to be careful and do a few test shingles first.

Also, last night I started on some more clay work.  I made part of my "wailing wall" (more on that to come later), and I made a medusa head inspired by a trip through the Hollywood Wax Museum in Hollywood, CA.  It creeped both me and my sister out, so I thought it would be an excellent addition.

I also made a lot of good buys this weekend:

-Some skeleton garland from Big Lots 

-Cool sword charm from Hobby Lobby

-Mini books, bottles, and brooms

-Spanish Moss for the yard

-A gargoyle for the roof

Well, I guess I should get back to work!

Here's What I've Been Up To...

I've been working hard on the dollhouse on the weekends - painting, sanding, gluing...all that stuff.  

Anyway, this is what it looks like at the moment:

I didn't intentionally leave out all of the work I did between the first posted pics and this.  My camera just sucks and doesn't work all of the time.  Here are a few pics of my hard work...

Painting everything was painstaking.  I got it all done in one day because I just wanted to be finished with it.  I watched some good movies, though - Interview with the Vampire and Dracula.  After those were finished, I was so tired, I didn't care what was on the TV.  

I'm just glad this part is over.  My back was killing me by the time I had all of it finished.  Whew!  My hands were a little achy afterward, too.  

But enough complaining...I'm still having fun.  I'm excited to begin decorating, but I've still got quite a ways to go. 

Oh!  And just in case you're thinking, "Well, that doesn't look too scary so far," I'm not finished.  I'm going to try to make it look a little more haunted house-like.  I just needed to get my base colors down.  

I've also visited my parents since my last post and have brought back things from my old dollhouse.  I'll post pictures of those soon.

This is so much fun!

So very - VERY - sorry...

I assure you that I'm still working on my dollhouse. I'm just horrible at posting updates. I always think I'll just post something tomorrow, but you know what? Tomorrow keeps getting put off. I'll stop procrastinating and will put up new pics soon.