Early morning light.
It’s Saturday and I’m waking up very slowly. Still drinking my first cup of coffee. I have a brief review session with a client at noon, but other than that, I’m mostly going to hang out with my husband. A bit of work on the dollhouse might be on the agenda.
So far:
I currently have the dollhouse facing the exterior windows in the studio.
I remain on the fence about the built in fireplace on the third floor. I’m very tempted to close it off and wallpaper over it. Frankly, it has bothered me from the beginning. I spent a bit of time yesterday searching for this dollhouse on IG just to see what others had done with it. A lot of people got rid of it. I’m headed in that direction.
I need some kind of wardrobe for the bedroom and bedside tables. And bedding.
I have my eye on an easy chair for the living room. It’s really beautiful but a bit pricey. A refrigerator for the kitchen remains an open question. And I need more than just the piano in that top floor room.
Why am I not independently wealthy???
Ah well.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
good morning.
your ideas and efforts are making the beacon hill look great! thanks for the photos of all the rooms together.
hope you can take it easy today.
from your post yesterday …
that must feel wonderful to joe and you as his friend that he is making progress and will get to return home soon! thanks for letting us know. my prayers continue.
and the photo of don and that thistle … wow! will you remove it or leave it be?
yesterday my sister and i drove almost three hours up north and a bit east so i could pick up those two finished cross-stitch projects, and then we drove maybe 45 minutes to spend some time at the biggest lake around here. a good time (and a relief that the finishing work they did turned out to my liking, especially as one is a gift for my brother). for just short of six years, i lived in a small town in that area and worked a tough job (inpatient mental health for adults and kids) that i was qualified for, but didn’t feel qualified for. for a couple years, i was on-call every other week and that was horrible (80-hour workweeks, one of the reasons i quit) and just not right. anyway, i lived about fifteen miles from that beautiful lake and went over there every week, sometimes every day, workdays and not, sit in my car if it was nighttime so i could hear the waves and see them in the moonlight, to get some peace. moving water is one of my comforts, one of my joys. even a shower will do. :)
okay. i need to get things done around here!
happy, safe weekend to everyone!
kathy
Glad you got to visit that lake, Kathy. This is the time of year I miss the lake of my childhood where my dad’s family had their cottage.
Stay safe.
thanks, claudia. that lake was helpful to me during a super-hard time in my life and i’m very grateful to have spent time there in more recent years with my sister and our father. :)
i am sorry you have to miss your childhood lake, but glad you hold onto happy memories from times spent there with your family. xo.
i know that it’s not the same, certainly not a replacement, but where’s the nearest lake for you now?
There’s a lake in the mountains, but it’s part of the preserve and you have to pay every time you go.
We do have two rivers within walking distance.
too bad about the fee, but glad if there are natural things being preserved for everyone’s good, now and in the future.
glad you can get to those rivers.
you probably know about this already, but if not, look up the benefits of negative ions from moving water (waves, rivers, rain and even showers). :)
happy monday.
kathy
xo
Ah, to be independently wealthy! I wondered what that space was on the third floor. Fireplace makes sense but a tad odd. Is i too low to use as a decorative cubby? Probably — or something inserted there like a chest or shelves for books? Hard to tell from the angle and scale. That sounds like a good thing to do today!
I don’t want to make it into anything. Frankly, I’d love an expanse of wall space in that room.
Thanks, Jeanie.
Stay safe.
Since I recently had my brick hearth removed (but not the chimney outside or the flue in case future buyers want to reinstall a fireplace), I’m all for removing Beacon Hill’s 3rd floor fireplace.
Hope you’re enjoying the hang with Don today.
Thanks so much, Wendy.
Stay safe.
Claudia, maybe you could get the same person who made mini Stella to make the fridge so they would match? Just a thought. Enjoy your Sunday. Hugs, Elaine
I had my own stove as the model, with dimensions provided by me. It would be trickier with a refrigerator as I have none of those details.
Thanks so much, Elaine.
Stay safe.
Good Morning Claudia! I love the “whole house” views! They put things into perspective for me. I see what you mean about that fireplace. I suppose the original idea was it is an old Victorian house and heat sources required a fireplace once upon a time. Upgrades happen! One of my first major changes to my childhood dollhouse (The Lovely Old Dollhouse) was to “retrograde” the structure to its original “probable” construction (being of 18th century style) and I added fireplaces to the main rooms. This was very brave of me requiring cutting through the outside walls because I wanted the new fireplaces to have a chimney which connected to them like the house already had (for only one fireplace in the living room) and adding another chimney at the other end of the house. That made the house feel antique…. but required that I “modernize” it with lovely old “cast iron style” radiators (actually resin castings). The lengths some of us go to for that authentic feeling! You could close it in and put a radiator there. You could close it in and leave the “ghost” of the original structure but treat it as just another wall space. Or you could vanish it altogether and pretend it never happened . :):) It makes me chuckle to think of the lengths I went to to have antique openings in all my rooms! (But I do love a good fireplace!)
You are the queen of historical detail, Betsy. I admire that so much.
I am not so invested in those details, so I always seem to find a way to explain away some discrepancy!
Thanks, as always.
Stay safe.
Why are we BOTH not independently wealthy?!
This comment really resonated today–I’m wincing at the need for two new tubes of watercolors. Ah well…
I commiserate with you, Roxie! I understand.
Stay safe.