Beth's Miniature Pages

I have recently returned to a hobby I had neglected for about 15 years......   Doll Houses and miniatures.  I am really finding it exhilirating to get back to it and am finding that my other craft skills will work well with miniatures.  I can do needlework, paper arts and painting.  And I am so lucky to have a husband who can help me with the many woodworking needs that will occur.    He does model cars, airplanes and other plastic miniatures so has lots of experience in this. When I first got the desire to get back into miniatures I thought I would just do little scenes or vignettes and therefore would not need a house.  And after visiting a local dollhouse shop I discovered I decided to work on 1/2 scale (1:24) and 1/4 scale (1:48) instead of the more traditional 1:12 scale.   That meant I could have more stuff in less room!   But somewhere between good intentions and reality I knew I HAD to have a doll house or two. And fortunately I was able to find not one but two.  The first one was a little 1/2 scale plastic house that I plan to use mostly for fun and perhaps for when my granddaughter comes to visit.

The second house I found at an antique show in Kutztown, Pa. and I was really excited about it.   After talking with a couple of friends who know doll houses I believe it to be an old German Half Scale Doll House. On the bottom of the house it has stamped the words  "Gesetzlich geschutzl"

Over the next few weeks I hope to show the progress as I bring my little old German House back to life.   When I found it, it was all intact  but  since then some of the details fell off  because of bad glue job.  AND the roof  HAD to go. It was covered with roof shingles that were way out of scale!  Upon removal I discovered a red roof, typical of the German doll house of the  early 20th century.