Furniture, curtains odds and ends and new occupants and lights

Hello again, a few updates since my last post. Firstly I have a couple of new little people to add to the house. 

 Meet Edward the man of the house, clothed in Regency style and very handsome. 

Jacket cut out and ready to sew

All he needs now is a top hat...... another make for another day

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The beautiful Emily, the younger cousin of Charlotte the lady of the Manor.  Emily is visiting for afternoon tea 😀

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Simon the new Gardener.....

The young Butler, James learning his trade polishing the Silver in the servant's hall while the Head Butler gets all the easy jobs 😢

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Curtain making for the windows on the large front doors

Pleated and ready to go

making the pelmets before covering with material

Charlotte's bedroom curtains

The Morning room curtains

Lilac curtains for the upper hallway....and to the right the Silver bathroom curtains

below them are the green Dining room curtains and the white lace ones are the stair curtains

Made some cushions with leftover material, something to keep my hands busy while watching the tv

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Back to playing with Fimo again and made some food for the pantry and more doll components

Cheese

head and shoulder plate for doll

a few we bottles, salt holder, mortar and pestal, edam, cheddar, Silverside, Ham x2

garlic, onions, and tiny blotters for the study which cost a fortune in the miniature shops

meat

garlic and onions

a rope of garlic

A few additions to the pantry now. 

A new shelving unit for the floor (left side) more wine at the back ( a good household always has lots of wine 😂😂😂)

Garlic hanging from the shelf, a large white ceramic canister with a yellow one under the table, and a basket of onions on the top. The mice are having a good feast with the potatoes 😲

new for the laundry room a clothes horse, scrubbing board ( you can just see it to the left in the sink), and a new wringer

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New furniture in the Morning room.  A gold and mahogany settee and chair with foot stool and young Emily arrives for afternoon tea.

 In the study, we have some large size books and a glass whisky decanter and glasses on the small table

A lovely red rug for the Music room

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Thinking ahead to next year when hopefully I will get started with the renovation of the Victorian house, my miniatures shop had a 40% off all battery lights so I bought ceiling lights and wall lights to get me started.

 The Victorian house has never been properly wired as it was made over 30 years ago and I couldn't get lights then, so instead of wiring it up like the Georgian house I decided it would be much easier for me to light it with battery lights. Hopefully, I've made the right choice but that will become clear next year when I get started on it.

2 wall lights 1 ceiling light

3 more ceiling lights

Only one more to show you and that is the new cupboard Hubby got for Dalton Manor.

 I needed something a bit higher to sit the house on so that I had easier access to the basement area and we found this kitchen island on wheels which is just perfect. I can store more underneath and move it around easily.

That's all I have this time, so thank you for popping into my blog and I hope you enjoyed this update for Dalton Manor

Take care everyone

Dalton Manor update...The Gardens

Hello again, I hope everyone is well and coping with this lockdown. This winter has been so cold and wet that I have hardly ventured outside for ages, only when Hubby takes me a wee run in the car. I'm not a fan of Winter at all ⛄❅❄☃❆🌨 and I am really looking forward to warmer and brighter days when I can enjoy my garden again and go out and about.

I've been concentrating on the 2 gardens at the front of the house for the past few months and the roof as well but I still have quite a lot to do to that.  As you can see above and below the gardens are not quite finished but I will show how I got to this stage and the materials I used.

Image before the stairs were tiled and the fences and gate were done.

stair risers are now tiled and the left side gate and fence in a temporary position the right side fencing is still to be mounted onto the posts and another piece of the sidewall to be added on both gardens. The stairs and garden walls still need coping stones but that will be done when I add the rest of the walls.

Ok so let's begin with the fountain. I used  Fimo for this as I had to make it in sections then bake it. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out it will eventually have artificial water too but that's for another day.

the finished fountain with moss and distressing to add age

The pathway around and leading up to the fountain was made with cork tape cut into brick shapes and glued down ( excuse the toes 😬)

Next the gate and fence. These were made from the MDF railings that came with the house kit originally they were meant to be railings along the pavement. As I changed the front of the house from pavement to a garden I am just using them to make a fence and a gate instead. It took a bit of fiddling about adding the sides, top, and the bottom to make it fit, but I managed it in the end. I enjoy a challenge 😁

Not a very clear photo but I made the hinges on the gate and post from jewellery findings to enable the gate to open. I never give myself an easy time 😂

Now we come to the grass the trees and the flowers

The grass is a sheet of modelling landscape and some of the flowers were bought and some I made.

I will begin with the Clematis. To start I twisted lots of clear bag ties together an painted them green then I made the flowers and glued them on along with the leaves, these were made with punches that I previously used in my card making. You can see the Clematis on the left side garden wall.

Below the leaves have been coloured after punching out

a better photo of the Clematis

Most of the flowers were made with beads (from my jewellery making stash) and covered with a product called Flower Soft which comes in a range of lovely colours.

Covered in Blue Flower Soft they end up like Hydrangeas

You can see them in the right side garden against the wall I made some in white and peach too

A flower bed made with some of the flowers I bought and some landscaping material

The Trees....

This was a difficult one. I decided I wanted tall Cyprus looking pines and couldn't buy them anywhere in 1/12th scale so I had to make them.

 I started off with BBQ skewers and taped 3 together for the trunk painted them and glued on loads of branches like the one below. They were painted and then coloured sawdust was glued on to beef them up a bit and painted again. The end result is not bad and they do look quite real in the garden,so I suppose it was a success in the end but it took ages to figure it out and to get the shape I needed.

 

Next, I need some Topiary. 

Again very hard to buy the ones I want so I set about making them using my large black beads from my jewellery stash again, along with some skewers. Covered them in good old UHU glue and added some Flower Soft. They look really good and will be at the front door and maybe a few in the gardens too.

A bit messy but that's half the fun.

As I was writing this post my little Urns have arrived, so next time I will have them all planted up with my Topiary to show you and hopefully, they will be in situ at the front door. 

Thanks for your visit today I hope it wasn't too long a read and that you enjoyed the update to the house.

Till next time, keep safe xx