Scattered Thoughts . . .

Slowly, and in between health issues and medical appointments, we are making some headway on our summer home renovation plans.   Our latest project is to paint the house. Well... to at least paint the part of the house that is mostly finished!  We plan to finish another part of the exterior this summer but we wanted to get the design and colors right first. I think we are moving in the right direction but this little exercise has pointed out the need for some minor adjustments that weren't in the original plan. This current project is going well and it involves designing, building and installing some new architectural details for the exterior which match our new renovations on the interior. Between a drastic color change and adding these architectural details, the house is beginning to show some character! In this photo, below, we can see the new lighting at our front door... The weather has been rather wet this summer so I had to set up a little workshop outdoors under

I've begun working on adding some details to Kenzie's dollhouse for this Christmas. Each holiday, I add a little bit more to this beautiful townhouse. This Christmas, however, I will be adding most of the new details after Christmas. I'll be adding quite a bit of detail parts and accessories this Christmas so I'll share photos here sometime after Kenzie opens her Christmas gifts. At this point, Lukey and Kenzie will not be at our house until Christmas morning... and they probably won't be reading this blog entry... so I can start getting some prep work done on the dollhouse and the train set. I did, however, want to add one small detail on one window of the dollhouse... this is one of five window boxes in the photos included here. Just adding this one window box makes a tremendous difference for the front elevation of this townhouse dollhouse... when I add the rest of these window boxes after Christmas (after Kenzie opens her gifts) this front elevation wil