Dream Dollhouse – Part II : The Bedroom
Hi. Here is the second installment of the 'Dream Dollhouse' series, where I show you how I would decorate a dollhouse if I were to have one.
While I have never actually had a dollhouse, nor do I want one, I find it fun to decorate one virtually, using furnishings I have found for sale on ebay. So none of these photos were actually taken by me, although I have cropped, brightened and cleaned some up with Photoshop.
As mentioned in the first post where I showed you my dream dollhouse kitchen (here - Dream Dollhouse Kitchen), I seem to have expensive tastes in tiny furnishings, preferring the handmade one-of-a-kind vintage pieces over the current-day factory made ones. That said, I did come across a bedroom suite with the extreme asking price of $450 dollars but I passed it by finding it a bit too gaudy and prissy for my liking. I only mention it to give you a feel for how much some of these tiny things go for. I was so surprised and didn't realize the extent that some collectors will go to make themselves the perfect lilliputian world.
But when I show you my dream dollhouse living room in a future post, I am going to include some very expensive items because they are amazing.
So in our bedroom, we must start with the obvious, a nice comfortable bed.
I found two nice sets that included bedside tables, and it's a toss up. But including shipping costs, the one with the heart on it is $65 while the turquoise set is $25 so it seems the turquoise set is a better bargain.
Both sets need a new mattress so don't really look all that comfortable as they are. I would have to keep looking for a mattress, and I guess a mattress is something you would want to have new anyway because who wants to sleep on a secondhand mattress?
Our Weekend in Pictures
Caturday Goes to the Dogs : Puppy at the Pizza Parlour
Instead of pictures of Eddie the Cat today I thought you would like a look at this cute boy who I met the other day while I was out walking around. He was patiently waiting for his person, who was probably inside the nearby pizza place getting some dinner. I'm pretty sure he is a Bouvier, and being so means he'll get a lot bigger.
It was funny because while I was taking these pictures a guy from inside the restaurant came right out. I assumed that this was his dog and he was checking to see if everything was ok. But it turned out that is was a fellow photo lover who could see me through the window and was curious to see what I was taking pictures of. And so he began to take some shots too. The dog didn't seem to mind at all, with that little nub of a tail wagging away to beat the band.
Food Friday : Black Bean and Rice Salad
We usually have some sort of marinated salad on the go in the fridge at any time, to add to meals as a side dish or to eat as a snack. Or we serve some of them together along with some greens and have a salad-plate for dinner.
This Black Bean and Rice Salad is a favourite, with its ginger, garlic and cumin dressing. In my experience, not everyone is a fan of the 'exotic' (for lack of a better word) flavours in this one, but those who like it, really really like it.
It can be made with left-over or freshly cooked rice, and the black beans can be canned or cooked by you.
Making your own beans is a bit time consuming because they have to soak overnight before boiling. However, we go through the effort because they taste so good and we eat beans quite often, so it is economical. (I won't get all preachy about trying to avoid using food from cans, but we do so when we can. Of course, we eat some canned foods, like tuna fish, salmon and sardines, but for the most part we DIY our food as much as we can.) Anyway, with the beans, we cook up a bunch and then freeze them in zip-lock freezer bags. Once they're frozen and all stuck together, if we only need a small amount, we run water right into the bag. They'll fall apart and you can take out what you need. Then just drain the water out and re-seal and freeze.
Odd Sighting – Mannequins Out and About
You know how when you see something once, you begin to see it over and over again? Now I know that two sightings does not a trend make, but I do think that it was very odd to come upon two situations within one week, where parts of mannequins were temporarily left in a spot where they could be photographed by me.
In both cases they were right in the middle of being moved, so probably only stayed where I found them for a very short time, so I was in the rights spot at the right time.
This first series was taken as I was going to the store to get milk and a few things.
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