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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Dollhouse Date Book





I've been making and selling dollhouse miniatures on Etsy since about 2006 and have always enjoyed setting up and photographing the little dollhouse scenes. After seeing my mom self-publish two craft books I got inspired to make one of my own. The idea for this book sprouted about three years ago and I decided it would be a fun and simple project to start with.

Fun was right... but I was wrong about the simple part. 

Making a book, even one as simple as this one, is a lot more complicated than it looks and I found this out quickly. I worked on it off and on for awhile but every time I revisited the project I seemed to have a new idea of how to do it and then would begin all over again. Needless to say I got nowhere with this method.

So finally about nine months ago I decided enough was enough. I must finish this book before I lost the aspiration completely and it became just another one of those forgotten, half-executed ideas that after a fashion usually end up in the trash can or shoved into the back of a drawer or cabinet. Or as in the age of computers, they reside abandon somewhere on the furthermost reaches of a hard drive collecting virtual dust. I hated that to be the case with this project so finally I dug my heels in tried to devote as much time as I could to it.

And now it's done! Finally! *Big satisfying sigh of relief...*

Now I can move on to all the other hundred project ideas that accumulated in my notebooks during this time...

I had fun making this book and learned a lot. I hope it might be of some amusement and hopefully usefulness. I may have not hand stitched the book together or anything but every page was done by hand, by my hands and with love. :)


Learn more about the book here.