Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Cold. Very cold. Sunny. Snow tomorrow. But it doesn’t look like we’ll get a lot, just a few inches which is perfect.

Sleepless night. I have no idea why. I wasn’t worrying about anything. It was just one of those things that happen. Luckily, I don’t have to be anywhere, to coach, to have my wits about me, so I’m just going to go with the flow.

The last of my mini orders (for the time being) arrived the other day. These are from an Etsy shop called Mini My Eye. I purchased something from this shop when I was decorating Don’s mini studio. The owner uses postage stamps as artwork. And she has a wonderful variety of stock.

This is called “Les Muses,” painted by Maurice Denis in 1893.

This is a Japanese painting, “Kimono with Iris Pattern” by Saburosuke, painted in 1927.

Gorgeous. I’m not sure where I’ll end up placing them. To be determined.

The frames are a bit more gold than the photos indicate.

I’m going to putz around in the studio today. I have to sand the spackle that I added. And then I have to figure out what paint I want to use on the portion of the wall that isn’t wallpapered, then wallpaper, but that will probably won’t happen for a couple of days.

And I have to do some straightening up. If it gets too cluttered up there, it drives me a little nuts.

We watched PBS again last night. We love All Creatures Great and Small. Excellent! Everyone is pitch perfect, as is the setting and the costume design. Not as crazy about Miss Scarlett and the Duke. It’s okay. We’ll certainly watch it, but it’s not as well acted, nor as well written. For example, we couldn’t believe that Miss Scarlett couldn’t figure out that the bad guy was wearing a fake beard in the first episode. We sure could – we saw that coming a mile away. Anyway, the set and costume details are wonderful. It’s Mystery-lite, which is just fine.

Don just ran to the grocery store to pick up a few things. Oh, speaking of Don, he just put up a link to another of his songs. This one has always been one of my favorites. Here is the link to his post on FB, which will have a link to the song. It’s the first post on the page. The song is Guess I Still Get Crazy.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

I spent some time yesterday working on the dollhouse. I filled in some gaps in the walls with spackle. Today I’ll sand them and I might even start the wallpapering process. I also played around with the new plates and put them in the hutch. Those white eggcups that I got in Paris are out of scale, so I’m going to remove them. Or I could pretend they’re little desert bowls.

Playing with furniture and accessories is such fun. I consider it my reward for all the time spent renovating the dollhouse. There’s lots to do yet in this house, but once I finish the wallpaper in the bathroom, as well as the flooring and windows, I’ll move this to the desk and start building the Beacon Hill.

Yikes.

I have some new information about the comment we found so objectionable. Two more comments with the same text have appeared, plus one supporting the original comment. I am now convinced they are coming from bots who are commandeering IP addresses. Interestingly, almost all of them are coming from Canadian IP addresses. Anyway. This happened before during the 2016 election. I’ve deleted and blocked them all and will continue to do that, since they are deliberate attempts to spread disinformation. I deleted my original response because I no longer want to give any responses or “air” to this nonsense, because that’s what they want. Do you mind if I delete your responses, as well? If you do mind, let me know and I’ll let them stand, but they won’t make sense now that the original comment has been deleted.

Thanks, everyone.

Very, very cold here today. No snow on the horizon but it’s definitely winter!

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.