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Monday 25 March 2013

I am a frustrated miniaturist....

Real life is getting in my way!! I'm working full time at the moment and the weekends have been taken up with mundane RL stuff! I keep looking at blogs and seeing lovely things made and I'm itching to work on my doll house....

However I have had a problem as well ..

Do you sometimes find yourself just looking at the house and procrastinating? I had a little time the weekend before last, and I did make the bread shown in my previous post, but I did that really because I had dismissed all of the jobs needing to be done to the house. The coving needs to be done but I am hopeless at getting the angles right! Husband came and showed me and it looked clear on what I had to do, as soon as he had gone I tried it myself, disaster struck!

I'm not happy with the lights I fixed in. They are hanging too low from the ceiling! I need to unstick them and pull the wire through.

Some wallpaper still needs to be fixed... My list could go on!

The good news is it is a bank holiday weekend coming up! I am going to work on my house all day Friday and not do a single 'grown up' thing :-)

Finally, I thought I would show my birthday cake made by my lovely youngest daughter. She adores baking and makes a beautiful sponge :-)

 

 

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful, I love real cakes as well as the miniature ones!

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  2. I forgot to say that about being a frustrated miniaturist.......you are not alone!!!!!

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  3. Happy birthday Alice, Kudos to the wonderfulmdaughtermwho made you the cake, and of course to those who made such a sacrifice to help you eat it!

    Just keep doing mini things you enjoy and soon you will be able to tackle the daunting ones.

    Regards Kanine

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  4. You're definitely not alone. I make the mistake of doing mini jobs in my head then when I come to do them for real, it's a chore because I feel I've done it already!

    Happy birthday and lovely cake!

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  5. Hi Alice! I agree with Irene 100%!!!! I think about everything way too much and then don't feel like actually getting it done when it comes down to it, because mentally, I've moved on. Sometimes too, I am like you, frozen because I'm just plain scared to make a mistake, and like you it often involves cutting something complex like an angle. I have to actually MAKE MYSELF work on a project! It is often a chore mustering up the MOJO to get the next step out of the way. All I can say is just dive in anyway. If you don't do it, no one else will.

    Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday Alice! All the Very Best to you in the year ahead!

    elizabeth

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  6. Thank you Irene and Elizabeth! I had a feeling I wouldn't be alone on this! I did a little work yesterday, but have definitely designated tomorrow as a day to push on with the less enjoyable tasks :-)

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