Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

I went on a major offensive this weekend trying to get the bedrooms of my Butterwick Houses done, and I did! But it's going to take some time to write up the details for those and I realized that I still haven't posted on completing the ballroom. It's simpler than many of the other rooms as it needs a lot of space in the middle for dancing. On one end are two Petworth Miniatures chairs, and a plant stand I picked up somewhere along the way, which is serving as a little side table to hold another Mini From Italy fan. The vases are actually lamp bases from SJS Originals on Etsy, with some Stewart Dollhouse roses inside and embroidery thread as the greenery. I'm pretty chuffed with how those turned out as I think it's my best tiny painting to date. The fireplace is from Victoria Miniland and boy those are a pain to paint. I think I tried spray paint first and it just wouldn't get into the detailed bits so I had to use regular paint (somewhere around here I h...

So I had to take a break from mini-ing to use my workspace for another project, and it ended up being longer than I'd thought it was going to be. It's only been in the last week or so that I've gotten back into gear, but I feel like I'm at least making good progress again. I did get the front glued on to the first Butterwick House, and the second is now not far behind. The room that's had the most progress since my last, though, is the dining room, the second floor of that Butterwick House. Not only are the wallpaper ( Mini Minutia ), wainscoting ( Desert Minis ) and the (incredibly difficult) ruched curtains in, but I've also got the table and sideboard dressed, and those were crazy complicated because I wanted to do a proper feast. Strangely, finding plates has been the most difficult bit for all of this, and sadly I can't recall where I got many of them! I could not find the right size for some of them and actually ended up taking the cardboard backin...