Last part of your tour for now...,

All the kits I have so far

We will start today's tour on the ground floor, with the kitchen. Here is the island sink unit, not in place yet of course, because I want to show you both sides. This is the side that will not normally be seen from the outside.

And when we look on the other side we can pause to admire the pretty storage tubs that give even a functional room that special 'Pickett Hill' touch. The stools tucked under the end are pretty sweet too, aren't they?

Opposite the island sink unit is the fridge and stove. Here you can see them attached, with the top on, ready to be installed into the kitchen. The doors aren't on the cupboard because I haven't filled the cupboards with real items. I have however put in the artwork supplied to use if you don't want to put real items in.

And around the corner we see the spice cupboard and the buffet. Again, I can't put the doors on the cupboard part until I fill the cupboards with items, and some of those items are on their way right now.

Just to give you an idea of their size

And of course we can't forget the pie cupboard. This will stand to one side of the kitchen.

Now we'll go up to the first floor, admiring the mural on the staircase wall as we do so, and here is Emma's bedroom

Emma's bedroom is any little girl's dream, summed up with the words 'pink and pretty'. Here is an overview of the contents.

The cupboard bed is the dominating feature of the room and is another of the items that I fell in love with right from the first time I saw it. You can see why I just had to give in finally and buy this house, can't you? There were so many things I loved about the house itself and the furniture. Even the things I wasn't so keen on, have turned out to be really nice once I see them in reality.

The bed kit comes with fabric for so many extra cushions that I can't work out how to fit them all in :) If I have room to put a toybox or window seat into the room I will be able to use some of them on that.

Meanwhile here is the bed (cushions not glued in place as yet) Isn't is yummy?

Looking at the side to show you a few of the cushions and a better view of the interior

Emma's wardrobe is just so sweet and feminine too, with it's graceful shape and pretty artwork:

Emma is also well-supplied with toys. Here is her toy kitchen, which belonged to her mother when she was a little girl. I haven't put the tap on yet. I want to put a metal 'tap' on it instead of the wooden triangle supplied.

There is a lovely doll in a trunk (not shown, I just have to add the handles and hinges to it) and here is the doll's bed.

That looked quite big, didn't it? But to give you an idea of just how tiny it is:

And of course Emma has a table and chairs for those all-important tea parties.

On order is a dollshouse, which will complete the room as far as kits especially for this house, but I will probably add a few other bits .

Emma's shelf is a sweet touch, with a dress and hat hanging from it (I still need to add a tiny bow to each of them, made from a single strand of embroidery floss); on the shelf is a darling little pull-along toy, a box (full of special treasures perhaps?) and an E for Emma, painted in gold.

There are also three little pictures to hang on the wall, framed drawings done by Emma. You can see them in the overall picture. The story goes that there were four, the fourth being of Miss Lydia Pickett, but Lydia chewed that one up.

Now we will just have a peek next door,into Robbie's bedroom. This is very much a boy's room in blue. The lovely striped wallpaper has a border of sailing boats around the top, that sets the nautical theme for the room. The carpet depicts a treasure map.

Here is an overview of the contents of the room.

Robbie has a storage cabinet, with tubs for storage in the pigeonholes. They haven't come out true to colour in the photograph. I haven't decided what to put in the rest of the pigeonholes, but have ordered some white-metal toys that might go in some of them. I love the labels on the doors - they should help Robbie keep organised, but I wonder if they will - he is a boy after all :)

The game table has a tiny treasure map on the top, and the sides match the sides of the boat bed.

It came with six tiny sailing boats and a pirate ship as well as four games and game boxes, and a tiny book.

When these were drying on my worktable, it was bumped and the whole lot went flying everywhere. I found two of the tiny sailing boats (about 0.5cm -1/4" or less,) in between pages in the printer; two of them in my waste paper basket beside the table (by taking out every item in it, unfolding/shaking/examining both sides); one in between the cushion and the side of the lounge chair; and one by crawling on hands and knees inch by inch over the floor.

The pirate ship was hiding in the groove/shadow between the leg of the coffee table and the carpet. The games and game boxes were found in various places similar to the above - all except for one, which to this day is still missing. The table landed inside the printer, down where the paper is fed into it.

The bedside table as we call it in Australia, again is a nice little piece and I have put the book on the top of it.

One thing I have added to the room is a tiny cricket bat. I made this by whittling a piece of wood, with constant supervision from my beloved other half (we are Aussies after all, and though Peter and I don't follow the footie we do all love our cricket, especially Pete and Nathan). He made sure that it was the correct length for a little boy, the correct width in proportion, that the handle was the correct length, and that the blade was shaped just right lol. The cricket ball is coming.

The boat bed is really special. I just love it. Again, it came with fabric to make lots of cushions. I have used the checked fabric for one of the bolts of fabric in the Artist's Studio.

Now let's go up to the second floor and pop into the bathroom. You will notice that there isn't a lot of furniture in here yet, the kit for the bathroom is on order. But you can see the bathroom screen - I think I will use this to give some privacy to the toilet area. The little extras for this room are the laundry hamper and the framed prints to hang. There are other prints too, and I'll probably frame them as well - they are quite little and will probably fit the left-over frames from the chicken prints that came with the Coop.

The robe was surprisingly easy to make, using the pattern suppled. There is also a pair of scuffs (not shown)

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And so concludes your tour for today. I have no more furniture kits to make up until more orders arrive. There is still the Kitchen Accessories kit but I won't do that until I return home and the house is finished a bit further, in case the tiny pieces become lost.

Our nephew is house sitting, the DVR is set to record our favs, mini projects are packed, as well as mini stitching, mini reading (and other reading), clothes etc. And now the caravan is nearly packed.

Later:

There wasn't time to get those photos arranged before we left, thanks to the very user -UN-friendly way that Blogger now has the photos set up, so it is much later. But now we are all set up in our site on the south coast, the ocean looks lovely, our annexe is up and Nathan is organised with his bed out there along with our dining table and chairs. The television is tuned, we are organised inside, we have had a lovely afternoon and evening with our friends...... and all is well with our world. So that's it for today.

During the week I'll post more about what I do on holiday, including (hopefully) - minis. Til then -