Losin' One's Gall and the Haunted Doll House.

My daughter had gall bladder surgery this morning, and I'm so glad everything went smoothly. It's amazing to me that it is an outpatient surgery done through a few tiny incisions instead of one long huge one. And soon she'll be able to eat anything she wants again. Love her so much.


I was happy to get the haunted dollhouse down from the attic and clean it up a little, using it as a photo backdrop  for some items I posted on Etsy. Then I took a few photos of it. They turned out a little blurry. We've had rain off and on for days now and hardly any sunshine, so the lighting is off. I liked how the shadows turned out, but not the blur. Taking the photos in somewhat natural light is much better than a stark flash. I 'm learning. I made a lot of the stuff you see because I couldn't find exactly what I wanted and polymer is such a versatile medium. The bedside table in the first photo I covered with odd scraps of fabric, used a clear marble for the crystal ball, made the hat out of thin black material, and printed out tiny versions of vintage Halloween cards I found on the internet. The "Magic For Dummies" book I did the same way and added blank pages. The two pictures on the wall I framed with black polymer oval frames. There's a tiny black kitten on the bed that I made.

 The rubber ducky is polymer, sitting on a polymer stool.

The spider cake I made from polymer as well as the skull mug and the piece of cake on the plate. I wove an I -cord and coiled it to make the chair seat cover.

I didn't post the living room picture because it was too blurry, but I sculpted the bust on the mantle and made the big coffee table book. There's a polymer witch stirring brew from her sculpted black pot and a polymer "enamel" coffee pot on the stove.