Sealer, fun with paper and lights!!

I just sealed the wooden shingles so hopefully they will be protected from dirt and dust etc. I can imagine that the roof would be a pain to dust. I used Patricia Nimocks clear acrylic sealant with the matte finish in two coats.

Also, boyfriend is out of town at a football game and my friend who I was going to hang out with today felt sick and stayed home so I decided I would tinker with dollhouse stuff. A little while ago I found all these printable miniature stuff from jim's printable mini's website. These are the ones I found too cute to turn down...

This barn is for Kristian because he loves old, red barns :). It's a toy barn for the nursery.

I couldn't turn down this trunk, I'm hooked on trunks right now...

The trunk exterior

Antique children's book

Antique children's book

Cover of the sheet music for the piano

Sheet music

Board games for the nursery: checkers, monopoly, chess and wordup

A block of encyclopedias

Playing cards, too cute to pass up, but the holder wasn't sized right so I will have to come up with some other way to contain them.

I am also working on the lighting in the dollhouse. Yes, I am installing lights :). I checked out the available dollhouse lighting systems and they seem both overpriced and incredibly limited. I will use LED's because our doll's don't like wasting energy. Actually, I just like that LED's won't get hot like incandescent lights do. I got a transformer power supply from the local electronics store in Berkeley. It's basically a toy store for electronics geeks like me. It takes 120 V AC power to 12 V DC power, perfect for LED's. I also have a bunch of resistors I will solder in to keep the current down in the LED circuits, I don't want them to burn out too fast.

The first lighting set I am working on is the fireplace. I got 2 yellow and 2 red flickering LED's for the fireplace and wired them to the transformer. They work!

red and yellow flicker LED's for the fire place

I also snagged a thin branch from the pear farm when we were last up there to break into fire wood. So now that I know its working, I can start wiring up the house. Don't worry parents, I'll make sure there are no live wires accessible by little fingers. :)