Online legacies

I was just searching for ideas and got distracted by ideas for a Dutch Baby house. I have a Bespaq cabinet put away with only wallpaper in, but have always looked for websites with traditional furniture for it. I again came across the website of a wonderful miniature maker, Frances Armstrong . She is gone, but her website is still there and still has wonderful work that makes you wish she were still around. Frances Armstrong

I 'm also a history collector, so got tickled thinking that along with heirloom items, we'll be leaving behind Facebook pages, blogs and websites! My aunts, who are all crafters and artists, have Facebook though in their 70's - it didn't take them long to see the power of networking. So what do you think- should we all go to Ancestry.com and link our blogs and Facebook pages to our profiles?

Breaking up Christmas

There is an American Old time music tune called "Breaking Up Christmas". Quick lesson for those of you not into traditional music ; songs have words , and tunes don't ( unless you are Liz Carroll ) , and tune writers tend to either be traditional, using place names or the name of the person who wrote the tune, or to be silly. I always put this tune name in the category of silly takeoffs on Irish tune names. One of my favorite Irish Tune names is ,"I buried My Wife and Danced On Her Grave." But today I am thinking that it should be an air ( generally sad, slow tune ) and rather than describing a drunken melee around the Christmas tree, is describing what I am doing- packing away ornaments which are fragile and which all have sentimental value - so breaking up Christmas. Sad, but time to get on with the new year!

irony

Since I wrote the post on suspension of disbelief, and started adding a staircase to the basement of the Gammage House, I've being thinking about a few glaringly obvious inconsistencies. What is a 55 year old woman who has always hated talking animal stories doing collecting and making dolls and miniatures?

2nd - the original thought behind Gammage house was for it to be more like an antique dollhouse than a "to scale" modern miniature. Detailed but only close to the half inch scale- using mostly handmade furnishings and accessories or altering new ones . which is why I am struggling so much on whether or not to electrify in a typical way. Wouldn't it make more sense for me, who has always hated animal stories, to build meticulously realistic scenes , or least aspire to?

I did some work yesterday on the targeted end of the house, but also picked up work on painting Julia's bedroom walls. Painting the walls is a task which has been holding me up, but I've found a solution . All the walls are now removable, so I can finish painting later, but get the interior of the house ready.

This is a picture of the addition to motivate me!