I think you need these. In fact, I’m sure you do. All of these miniature items are currently available online.

• Individual ice cubes
• Runes casting set
• Lingerie
• Breastplate armor
• Mardi Gras velvet and feather mask
• Packaging, scale and strip tape for any moves or UPS replica shop needs
• Classical bas-relief chariot wall plaque
• Tiny cookbook with real pages and recipes
• Mounted rhino head for $145
• Copies of mid century furniture masterpieces
• Tiny pandemic masks
• Witch’s potion shoppe
• Bansai tree
• Pull toys
• Needlepoint runner kit
• 4th of July bunting
• Silk parasols
• Gardening gloves
• Standing dinner gong
• Tricorn hat
• Spa robe
• Children’s puppet theater
• Wall shadow box art
• Stuffed animals
• St. Patrick’s day decorations
• Half timber Tudor dollhouse
• Trumeau mirror with colonial scene

That’s just what I saw this morning.

I do probably need the ice cubes because I bought an icebox for the kitchen with a tiny basket of eggs. I don’t know how I could fabricate them. More a fun to have, not essential.

The rooms are gathering energy, becoming more lifelike as I add layers. There’s some psychic phenomenon happening of yes, you know it’s a dollhouse but then for a second you occasionally think it’s a real place. It’s a strange trick of the mind, disorientation from replicas. The Germans probably have a word for it.

I fall into reveries about imaginary families that lived in this house. The kitchen would be completely a woman’s domain in the 1920s. And this lady just got the vote. I see a woman in an apron looking out the window above the sink, dreaming of a life she reads about in the new picture show magazines.

I see her yearning to feel glamorous. Maybe she feels her husband’s interest is flagging, so she’s making a picnic lunch. She has been baking that morning, all his favorites. (Of course his, not hers)

I can’t help inventing inhabitants. I know the 40s living room will represent D-Day. I always cry on June 6th from gratitude and awe. I think the bathroom will have to do with getting ready for a party, a really fun 60s bash for a younger couple. In my mind, the house is changing hands frequently – it’s not the same family all through. Otherwise I’d have to make the girl’s room an elder care facility to get to the 70s.

I found some tiny gem tintypes on eBay to use as family portraits. And I bought some stuffed animals that wound up inspiring another story concept. I accidentally bought two pairs so now I have four pink bunnies.

I thought it might be fun to place these stuffed animals in several of the rooms as if each successive family leaves it behind in the attic where it is rediscovered by the next child that moves in. They are different sizes so maybe that will create Renaissance perspective depending on placement. Probably not, but will see.

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