Cooker or Stove

When I was reading the British version of "Country Home" I noticed that stoves were used for heating, so you all call what you cook on a "cooker". Hmmm, sounds logical. You call them "cookers" even if they are the electric or gas turn on/turn off type? We call what we cook on a stove and we can have a stove to heat with, too, but they are not the same thing, confusing. I love reading all about it. I'm a nut on information, not anything useful mind you, just nosy I suppose. Thanks for answering my questions. Now I have another, when I watch the imported British T.V. shows I see small refrigerators, under the counter. Is this typical?

Soooo Tired

Hi Guys, I am so tired, all I have been doing is sleeping and trying to get e-mails out. Katie walks just about everywhere and very fast, I can't blame her she learned from me. As soon as the kids started walking that's what they did, no carriages or strollers. But now I need a stroller! She keeps in shape with all that walking, I should do more.

I've finished a customized Farm Wing for a miniaturist in England.

Customized, my patterns, your fabric or your choice of fabric.

I also have a Santa chair finished for this Christmas season.

Do you see the rug under the Farm Wing? It's a "cheater" rug using the suede paper from www.dragonflyintl.com. You can't tell it's not a braided rug unless you reach out and touch it.

TTYL Kris

Katie's Jam

This is some of Katie's Jam, she couldn't wait for the jars to cool until she was busy dolling up the jars. She has the Yo-Yo makers and I think they are so cool. I brought more of my fabric up for her and my box of wider ribbon. I am trying to clean out the things I just won't use anymore, I know she will utilize them.
She is very creative, one day I will have to take pictures of the dolls she used to sculpt, I took a couple up to her, maybe to get her to sculpt again. She is so busy, though.
I have seen the Thorne Rooms, gone twice and I love them. I like them better than the Colleen Moore Castle. I know that the Chicago area has so many shows, it would be fun the arrange a meeting with bloggers that could get to one, wouldn't it!? Will talk to you later, just got in off the train. Kris

I'm in Chicago!

I am in Chicago visiting my oldest daughter, Katie. I am on her Apple laptop and loving it. We went to her new Michael's and she took me to her eyeglass place. She wants me to update my look, O.K. I'm an old mom. I love coming up here, I ride the train for about 5 hours. She lives close to Think Small by Rosebud. It's a nice miniature store, and they have a lower level for miniaturists to work on their dollhouses.

We are going to make strawberry jam tomorrow, and then I will ride the train home. I am watching Top Chef and eating Swedish Fish and writing to you all, this is just so much fun.

I was reading her Country Living magazine,(British Edition), it's lovely. I have a question for our English miniaturists . . . .I have researched the Aga range. I think it's neat that it is always on. Are there other ranges like this? Is this called a range or cooker because it is always on? We generally call them stoves, but they turn on and off. Shed a little light on this for me. I suspect the Aga range is expensive.

Joy, I have your settee almost finished, the frame work with the legs needs another coat of finish, I will do that when I get home.

We need to go shopping for strawberries, so I will say talk to you later, Kris

P.S.S. on Piping Project

I was making piping today and I thought, "Did I say in the directions that piping does not work on all fabrics?" I have added these thoughts at the bottom of the piping project. Piping does not work on all fabrics, you just have to try the fabric out to see if the fabric works. Another thought, sometimes when you are rolling the piping to finish it, try rolling towards you or away from you, which ever is comfortable, to keep the piping from twisting. You can't keep it from twisting. I wish I didn't have to roll it, but after I have pressed it into the glue to seal and then cut it off from the rest of the fabric, the piping can be flat and it has a little edge of fabric left from where the scissors didn't get all of the fabric. As I said, I did add this to the bottom of the project just in case someone runs across it later on. TTYL Kris

Keep checking the Printies Post

Very helpful miniaturists keep adding to the printies post about book pages, keep checking.


Double sided tape sounds nice and clean, with no worries about glue leakage, good idea. I do have to tell myself to keep the glue to a minimum. If you spread the glue out, I have found that the leakage doesn't happen too much. I have a friend that does not like to touch the glue and get the glue on her fingers, she doesn't like the smearing. I always smear the glue around on anything I apply glue to, I waste a lot of glue, I know, because I am wiping it off. I keep a rag for wiping my fingers in my lap and a damp cloth in a bowl on my table. I used to be pretty bad about getting glue all over, but with time I've learned to wipe, wipe and wipe my fingers. I was always told I was a messy child, I don't think I've changed much,LOL! TTYL Kris

A Big Thank You to Carol

Thank you so much for the information! It helps a lot and I will refer to it when I want to have an open book. Kris