No room in the inn

So I made them a little stable. I have three different sizes of stables for my own nativities and all three are made of rough wood so I raided my scrap box last night and came up with this. It was late and I wasn't in the mood to get out the saw so if I couldn't break it over my knee and sand it smooth, I didn't use it, lol. I probably need to add some more back supports to fill it in a bit but this is how it looked last night before the glue was completely dry. I think I will dry brush some shades of brown over the wood, too, to age it. So far, so good, though.

The updated nursery

The whole nursery with the recovered rocking chair and new blankets for the cradle.
The rocking chair up close. I found this yellow flannel with pink flowers in my fabric stash. I love how it brightens the dark chair.
This is the newborn I made for the cradle. She has blotchy newborn coloring and is anatomically correct - although I immediately glued a diaper on her, lol.

The promised pictures

Here's the promised pic of mini me in my new Christmas sweater from beepbeep of etsy. I actually had a sweater similar to this one in 1993. Isn't this one beautiful! I am so excited about it.
Another view of the living room.
Yet another view. That's mini hubby in the chair with his feet on the ottoman.
So I had kind of a rough day with some extended family stupidity. While I was in town I decided to cheer myself up with a visit to my favorite antique/consignment shop. I bought some beautiful vintage Christmas ornaments to add to my collection and I also bought this little rocking chair. It's plastic but the scale is nice for the nursery. I'm gonna leave it brown but add some pink print cushions.

Well, it's sort of a mini...

These figures are approximately half scale (1:24) so I guess they qualify as minis, lol. My daughter is getting married next summer and she and her husband will be starting their own traditions. I made this Nativity set for her, if she likes it, as a small starter set. I will have to find a stable as this one goes with the first Nativity my hubby and I bought. My daughter reads my blog so I will probably hear soon whether she likes it. :-)

And the winner is...

I had 14 comments here on the blog and one emailed comment so there were 15 names in the hat.
Caterina of Cockerina is the winner of the mini ornaments. That is especially fitting as she is the actual 100th follower. Congratulations, Caterina! Please email me your address so that I can get the ornaments on their way to you. My email addy is in the left column after my profile information.

Thank you all for following and for participating in my little giveaway.

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The Jefferson ready for Christmas

The Jefferson was built to have the feel of my real house. The exterior is the same gray with cranberry door and shutters and the inside has similar colors to our home at the time I built the dollhouse. My dollhouse daughters had to share a room. I built this house in 1992 and some of the colors have faded a bit. It was my first big dollhouse and the only one I've electrified.
Here are my children, in dollhouse version, as they were in 1993. I built the house while pregnant for my youngest so the house represents his first Christmas. The crib and changing table were built from a kit, the dresser is a refinished dollar store purchase and the baby swing and rug were created from scratch as were the dolls. My mini family dolls were some of my first experiments - I've improved since then!
Since I made the headboard and quilt that I showed you in an earlier post, I added the aquarium as we always had fish when the kids were young.
The kitchen is obviously in need of dusting but the table is set, the turkey is thawing in the sink and the other meal fixings are on the counter. The bib on the Renwal high chair (for some reason all of the Renwal baby furniture is 1:12 scale while the rest is 1:16!?) was made from a scrap of wrapping paper trimmed with embroidery floss.
And, finally, the living room with my first pipe cleaner tree, stockings hung on the mantel, nativity on the entertainment center(altered Michael's hutch). The paintings throughout the house were done by my mom. The quilt on the wall was a kit. Mini DH (on the left) and mini me (on the right) are enjoying pizza and coffee while the kids (supposedly) are sound asleep on Christmas Eve. Mini me has a wonderful knitted holiday sweater from Beepbeep on Etsy coming. I'll post photos when she's been re-dressed.

Since this house is always decorated for Christmas I look for things to add year round. I also look for things that remind me of our home, traditions, hobbies, etc.

Recreating your home or a room in it is really fun.