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

Stocking up the pantry and kitchen

Hello again

This week I have been playing around with Fimo polymer clay and making some food for the kitchen and the pantry. Below you can see the finished food on the tables and on the floor of the pantry.

Roast chicken for dinner....mmmm !!!

I also needed some sacks to put the potatoes and flour in so I made a couple from canvas that I had then I stamped some logos onto them with a small alphabet set and Stayzon ink pad.

Now I have 3 sacks of potatoes to go into the pantry

The Pantry

Still looks quite empty at the moment but will fill up eventually

 Some food ready to be baked in the oven, it takes 30 minutes to cure the clay then it is hard

colouring the apples with chalk pastels then baking them

the real potato is in the photo just to show the scale it wasn't cooked

again I coloured the potatoes with chalk pastels

I needed a sink base unit and had a welsh dresser that was not Georgian at all so I halved it and used the bottom for my sink. I took out the middle section and made a wooden sink and painted it .

this was the welsh dresser I altered.

Next was the sink for the scullery. I made a double sink with Bass wood painted it then added the pipe work underneath and added 3 legs

Also added tiny we taps too.

 In the corner is the Copper where all the household linnen was boiled it was a brick construction with a copper tub inside and was heated from below with a fire, you can see the little door at the bottom

It was made from a gravy tub and Bass wood with brick paper for the outside and the top is Bass wood

The inside is the bottom of a plastic cup trimmed to fit and painted copper

I borrowed the maid ( Niamh calls her Silly Sally lol ) from the Victorian house next door to let you see the how the Scullery will look and I have now noticed that the lights in the basement rooms are too low so that's something I will have to fix.

You can see the light here is far too low.

 The stairs in the back of the Scullery lead up to the ground floor entrance hall

 Back to the main kitchen now and you can see I also borrowed the Cook from next door too. Ready to slice the bread sticks and serve dinner...

Lights in here need fixed too

That's it for this week I'll be working on some of the uptairs rooms next and may also do some work to the outside of the house too, I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your visit see you next time 😍