Thanks for the info! That sounds lovely

You're welcome :)

Thank you 🤗

After finishing the farmhouse, I didn't think I'd be making 1:144 scale furniture again for a little while but that headboard NEEDS furniture 😆 Maybe I'll make a poll and ask my viewers what they think about the tile. The "right" side has the pattern raised and sticking out. The wrong side has an embossed pattern.

@@queencityminis I can’t imagine making something so tiny. Yes, do a poll!

I got these items in Amherst, NH. Maybe you should take a trip to Earth & Tree Miniature Shop!

I totally hear you! Earth & Tree is incredible. I spent 4.5 hours the first time walking around. I only left because they were closing 😂 There's so much to see.

I completely forgot but I bought a tube of Pebeo Cerneo Relief liner. It's very similar to gallery glass. It's quite thick so it's hard to make fine lines with it. I bought it make details on furniture and frames to look like carved wood. It may work for leaded glass but I really like the metallic stuff. Maybe aluminum tape would work.

@@queencityminis ooohhhhhh, or when you said metallic it made me think of the gold leaf stuff, where you put down sticky stuff and put gold leaf on it. Maybe there are other colors of leaf? Or, embossing powder where you get a raised result with a heat gun and a massive array of colors . You can use clear embossing ink, or colored ink. you could use a rubber stamp for a pattern. You know, I saw a video where someone made a stained glass lamp shade with clear plastic, and they got little bit of lace, painted it black, and put that on the shade. Then used tiny dots of nail polish for the color. They had used the in between part of a lace pattern, where it was sort of uniform bubbles, not a flower or butterfly or heart pattern. They made it look like flowers, with a yellow center, surrounded by red cells, occasional green for leaves. You'd never know it was lace

Yes, it's the best place ever! I should make a video tour of the store. It's amazing

Building a cardboard castle is a Patreon project for Patrons of Bentley House Minis. Some of the Patrons are working on theirs and then Ara posts updates. Ara has her own cardboard castle she works on during live streams. I wanted to get in on the fun, but I've been too busy. Maybe someday. I would love to make an English pub someday. Maybe that's what I should do with my Tudor dollhouse. I could make a bar downstairs and living quarters upstairs!

That's awesome :) Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much!

That's such a cool feature! I wonder what the function is or if it's just for looks.

Though I can’t be a hundred percent sure I think it has to do with the construction of the house. Once the house framing was done, the exterior was covered in clapboard. The interior was lathe and plaster. Now, as the house heats up, condensation forms on the windows and trickles down the panes. If there was lathe and plaster under the windows it would soon be ruined. By putting wood underneath and painting it, the base of the window holds up better over the years. Lathe and plaster was also often wallpapered over and the paper would also have been ruined. I hope this all makes sense.

I just Googled it. That's a great tip! Thank you. I didn't know such a thing exists since I don't play golf.

@@queencityminis i didn't either. I watched a video about 9 years ago and thought I'd try it. Found the stuff at academy sports believe it or not. Lol. I think it's called golfers lead, but I don't know if it's really lead

😆 Can't go wrong with a bonus paperclip.

I also have a ton of kits! So much fun. I'm thinking of making a really rustic antique looking kitchen. I'll use the tin ceiling there.

@@queencityminis Oooh like from what era? The 30s? Or way before? I also really like the bed with the dollhouse headboard fyi

That's awesome! Have fun with it :)

I'm really fortunate. My local dollhouse store is 3,000 SQ ft and filled to the brim with vintage miniatures, new miniatures, dollhouse, room boxes, kits, any building supply you could ever want, wallpaper, flooring and more. It's amazing.

@@queencityminis I think I saw a video with a tour there. Do they have classes too, or you can work on things there?

That sounds great! I remember seeing Bentley House Minis use that product but she had a really old bottle. The tip was quite big. A smaller bottle sounds brilliant.

I'll keep an eye out for that

Maybe 😏

@@queencityminis oh wait. Queen City. Hahaha, I’m so dumb. 🤦🏽‍♀️ if you’d ever like to craft with a crafty old lady, I’m trying to renovate a dollhouse and fix a pile of broken dollhouse furniture and I’m struggling big time 😂