Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Meet the Glencroft

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As promised, more photos and details on the Glencroft. This will be a photo-heavy post.

Welcome to dollhouse city. And welcome to the newest house in the neighborhood, the Glencroft.

The interior.

The living room. I love the doors! And the beams in the ceiling.

The fireplace and stairs. Eeek! I love it so much. The framed artwork says “Home Sweet Home.” It’s going to stay.

The stairs turn behind an interior wall and go up to the master bedroom.

I’m not sure if I’ll keep that cutout in the wall. Another little fireplace with and inset for logs. And the cuckoo clock also came with the house.

That’s a window seat! It’s carpeted but you know I will be pulling that out.

Same for the second bedroom:

It was clearly a little girl’s bedroom. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it, but it will not be a bathroom.

The kitchen – also with beams. I would say it’s about the same size as the kitchen in the Beacon Hill, maybe a tad wider.

I love all the little details! I made a video for my YouTube channel where I speak in more detail about the Glencroft. If you’re interested, here is the link.

Going back to the Beacon Hill, a bathtub arrived yesterday.

The owner of the Etsy shop also sent along a little rubber ducky! So gosh-darned cute!

And I’ve been making books for the den shelves (mainly the ones on the top shelf. I have two of these units. Imagine how many books I’m going to have to make!

This week has been about dollhouses and, most importantly, the midterms. I have to say, it’s been an excellent week!

Don has a gig tonight.

I have to finish Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel because it’s new and it was due on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE

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A BLUE TSUNAMI!!! My heavens, what a night! I’m still processing it, but I feel like my shoulders have dropped for the first time in years. We stayed up until 1 am watching the returns. I kept trying to go to bed, but it was too exciting. We’re exhausted but it was so, so worth it. And then, this morning – more good news! Good has triumphed. Diversity has triumphed. Integrity has triumphed. We are taking back our country.

Insert sigh of happiness and another sip of coffee.

To review the last couple of days. We did find a health care policy. We have to pay more, but not too much. We spent a couple of hours on the phone with an advisor provided to us by the Screen Actors Guild. Yes, that’s nice, but remember, SAG took away the health care for Senior members that they assured us we would have “for the rest of our lives.” That’s the reason we have to go through this decision making now. Anyway. That’s done. A relief.

Then, yesterday morning, we woke up at 4 am for some reason. Neither of us could get back to sleep. We got going early, stopped off at our town hall to cast our votes, then got on the road for New Jersey. It was a two hour trip each way. We found our way to the house of a seller on Facebook Marketplace (a very nice woman) and picked up this:

The Glencroft dollhouse that I’ve been searching for! The color is a bit off and it’s a bit blurry as it was late in the day, but you get the idea.

Two little stories. When I was a girl, I fell in love with the houses in my hometown that were “Tudor” in style. I loved driving by them. I wanted to live in one. I had that dream for years. I had forgotten about that until I fell for this house and then those memories came back to me. I finally have my very own Tudor dollhouse!

The other story: That morning, I received a message from the seller of the other Glencroft who had stopped responding to my messages. He is unemployed and had lost his phone and couldn’t respond to my messages and now he was back and did I still want the house? I had to tell him I had gone with another seller. It’s a good thing. That trip would have been twice as long and the house was $50 more.

Don is in love with this dollhouse, by the way. He can’t stop talking about it!

Anyway, I’ll share more about it on Friday. I’m so happy that it’s here.

I NEED COFFEE.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

Oak Trees and Dollhouses and Voting

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An ode to our oak tree that is near the road. In the 21 years we’ve lived here, it’s really grown. No acorns yet. Does it take some years before an oak develops acorns?

We have other oak trees, some up in the woods and a couple of baby oak trees just next to the secret garden. But this is the oak I can see from the house. I’ve been talking to it lately.

The oak leaves turn color later than the rest of the trees, so they get their solo time on the stage.

The burning bush full of lots of red berries.

Gilly and Dexter urge you to VOTE if you haven’t already. We like to vote on election day and can’t wait to cast our votes tomorrow. There are no excuses for not voting. I can’t remember a more important election in my lifetime.

I found a Glencroft dollhouse in New Jersey. I got tired of trying to figure out what the heck the other seller was thinking. So I reached out to the seller of the NJ Glencroft and we’re going to drive down there tomorrow, right after we vote. It’s a couple of hours each way, but that’s better than the 3 1/2 hours it would have taken to reach the other destination. And this house is less expensive! I’m very excited. It’s a great way to fill up our time as we wait for the evening election results.

This morning, we are going to talk to someone about our health insurance. We keep putting it off but we really need to get on it at this point. I hate stuff like this. My eyes glaze over. Health Insurance shouldn’t get more complicated as one gets older.

We’ll figure it out.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

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