Decking the halls

 I had to run to the local Family Dollar for dog food this morning. I can't seem to go in there without looking around and I ended up buying a large box of silver glass ball ornaments to play with. This blue and red ornament was made by decoupaging tissue paper shapes onto the ball. Then I sprinkled it with fairy dust - a very fine glitter.

 On this one I painted sections with silver glass paint. That gave a pretty matte finish to those sections that contrasts very nicely with the shiny silver.

 

 This one got stripes with chunky white glitter. I had a lot of fun just playing. I did several others but these three are my favorites.

I also found this tiny princess tea set at Family Dollar. The pieces are nicely scaled for dollhouse use. I just need to make them look much less pink and plastic, lol. The teapot is made to hold all the pieces. I had planned to paint it to look like a porcelain teapot to hang on the tree. Silly me - I didn't even think about putting a mini scene inside. It's a good thing my hubby did. ;) That's gonna be a project for tomorrow during the football games. I promise to show you the results tomorrow evening.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

It's Christmas around the house

 This is our living room tree. I get to decorate this one however I want. For the past several years I've used vintage and vintage style ornaments. Even the topper is a vintage replica. Under the tree I have a little village I started collecting last year. Almost all of the pieces have come from thrift stores. It's been fun to add to over this past year.

This is our family tree. We have Christmas morning in our master bedroom so that's where this tree is - it's also the largest room in the house so we can have a large tree. This is the first year for the blue lights and sparkly garland. The rest of the family love all blue, and since I get to choose the lights for the downstairs tree, we went with their favorite for this one. The new lights are blue LEDs. I must say that the blue is growing on me. The LED lights are really nice. I made the tree skirt many years ago. It has angels and stars appliqued on it.

We also have several nativities and my Santa collection spread throughout the house.  My middle child is living at home since graduating from college and she has a small tree decorated with chiffon butterflies and Tinkerbelle ornaments.

It's very festive here!

Santa's House featured!

Santa's House has been featured as the dollhouse of the month over at My Small Obsession! The link takes you to the website but Gaye also has a blog by the same name. Thank you very much, Gaye!

Finally, something new!

 A nasty virus found me the day after Thanksgiving. I've been down ever since. I haven't been able to decorate my house for Christmas yet but I was strong enough to give Harriet a hand with hers. I also made up a tray of craft supplies ('cause you can only spend so much time sleeping no matter how sick you are!) and pulled up pictures of Red Flyer sleds on my laptop and went to work. I think the resulting sled is really nice. I had originally propped a popsicle stick sled that I found in the round robin swap box against the porch wall. Even after some modifications, though, it still looked too fake. That's what led to this project.

 The living room looks quite festive for the holidays. The stockings are hung and there's even a stack of gifts under the tree table.

 The kitchen calendar has been turned to December and there's a lovely Christmas print cloth on the table. You can see that Harriet and Sandy have already been baking, too. There's a gingerbread house, fruitcake and Christmas cupcakes.

Welcome!

I have been very lax in welcoming new followers. Several of you have recently started following De-Lightful Minis and I am so glad to see you! There are 379 of you now! Wow! Once we hit 400 it will be time for an extra special giveaway.

I hope to start my newest project soon. Now that I am working 5 days/week there seems to be much less time for minis. :(  Thank you all for staying with me even during the long "dry" spells without minis. You are all the best and I've learned so much from following your blogs. Wishing all of you a wonderful week!

Everyone is home again

On Saturday, a friend and I brought the four dollhouses home from the library. It was quite an adventure! Once again, the two smaller houses rode in my Toyota. Theresa has a larger vehicle so I had planned for the larger houses to ride in the back. Unfortunately, her car isn't much taller than mine. One of the houses fit nicely behind the front passenger seat but the Petite Dreams had to lie flat on its back. We put it on a blanket with all of the stuff still inside the house and hoped for the best. I had some major resetting to do but nothing was damaged. My bedroom doesn't look quite so empty anymore now that the houses are back. Oh, and I am already scheduled for another library display next October. :)

Hello!

I haven't posted for awhile because hubby and I were away on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate our 30th anniversary. We had an amazing time and visited some beautiful places. This was the view from our cabin balcony. It was very difficult to come back to real life. ;)