dollhouse 4 the third floor boys room, sewing room, attic

The Boy's Bedroom
The boy's room before the 2008 renovations	The boy's room has changed drastically with the 2008 renovation. I like it much better now. I tore out the built in shelves which enlarged the room and replaced the rolltop desk with a dresser. I went with a nautical theme because already I had a couple of tiny ships which I really like. They were from a Dollar Store. One was in a glass bottle, and others were in little glass cases. I just wrapped them in a bag and hit with a hammer to release them from the glass.
I still have the hamster cage and all of the other toys, the dinosaurs, stamp album cars etc. I added the soccer ball which you can just see sticking out of the toy box (right), this ball started life as a ponytail tie! The tiny ship in the bottle is from a recent ebay purchase, to say that I am delighted with it would be an understatement
	I bought three of these little boats at a Dollar store quite a few years ago. It wasn't until I saw a real size shelf unit shaped like a rowboat, that I thought of using my little boats for the same purpose. The little boy in the miniature photograph is my son when he was about 5, he is showing off the first really big fish he had caught. The cookie tin on the middle shelf houses a collection of tiny shells. The Scrabble game (on the floor lower right) was actually a package of gum. My grandsons, now teenagers, were so thrilled to have found this for me when they were little boys. Scrabble is a favorite family game.
I love, love, love this tiny toy train. It is a recent addition to the dollhouse. The tracks are actually all separate and it wouldn't sit straight. To remedy this I glued them with crazy glue to some transparent plastic, and then trimmed off all of the excess plastic. The carpet is made from some velvet which was originally a little girls dress. I buy most of the fabrics for miniatures at second hand charity shops.
	A closer look at the toy trunk. I especially wanted a soccer ball in honor of my Dad. He loved soccer above any other sport. He was unable to play due to health issues, but he managed local teams both in the UK and in Canada. The little basketball is another dollar store find.It is actually an erasure. There is a soccer pennant on the wall above the toy trunk but it is not in the picture. send me an email
	The picture over the bed is of the ship my family took when we emigrated from England to Canada. It is the Cunard ship M.V. Britannic in 1957. Below is a photograph of Mum and me on the ship I was 13. We came to Canada via USA for some reason unknown to me.
We left Liverpool, England on June 28th 1957 and arrived in NewYork, USA on July 6th. After we departed from Liverpool, my brother and I were anxious to explore the ship, but my Mum stayed at the bow of the ship for a long time, until England to not be seen anymore. The trip was not all easy, we all were pretty seasick, and it gets boring on a ship after a day or so. They ran the same movie every afternoon, and I watched it every afternoon; Reach for the Sky starring Kenneth More. I can still quote some of the lines from that movie.. It was quite something coming up the Hudson River after over a week at sea. We sailed past the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations building, all the skyscrapers looked so tall! Oh my, the cars going over the bridge were so colorful compared to the drab colors of British cars at that time, yellow and black, pink and black,white convertibles, everything seemed so modern and flashy.
	The wallpaper for the boy's bedroom is pattern 7 and can be can be found on my wallpaper printables website.

The Sewing Room
	The Sewing Room The sewing room is in the center of the third floor. One has to imagine that there are some stairs at the back of this 'room'. The dollhouse sewing machine is made from a Chrysnbon kit. The rug in this room is made by braiding yards and yards of embroidery thread, and then glueing lengths of it onto fabric. I made this rug many years before the Internet, now I know of quicker ways to make rugs.
The wallpaper for the sewing room is floral 23 and can be can be found on my wallpaper printables website.
Keep scrolling down to see the attic.

The Attic The dollhouse attic is filled with all sorts of stuff, Christmas and Hallowe'en decorations, an old wedding dress, a sewing machine, birdcage, suitcases, an outdated gramophone, an old camera. Can you see the skeleton in the closet?
On the right side of the attic is the work bench where someone is working on, what else?! A dollhouse of course. send me an email
On the left side of the attic, Christmas tree lights tumble out of a cardboard box. Ice skates and a tennis racquet hang on the wall. An old spinning wheel sits in the corner, it is 'threaded' with real wool, which comes from a mill in in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. My Uncle Gil worked there all his life and gave me a tour of the mill in the late 1980's when I was on a holiday in UK. I love having meaningful things in my dollhouse, even when it is the tiniest scrap of wool.
That's all the photographs of my dollhouse. Thanks for visiting. send me an email

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