How sweet are these gorgeous bracelets? They are knitted out of wire by my friend Gill. She made these for her nieces for Christmas, but she's willing to take orders. $25 plus postage will get you one. Drop me a line to order.

Here's something fun. Sophie's made cushions and she's giving them away. Enter at her blog to win them...

*Sigh*

Now I need to paper the inside of the new walls and fix in the remaining windows. 

The bathroom decoration elicited this comment from my husband: "This is why I don't let you have a free rein in decorating our real house." It's true. He's the decorating nazi and usually wins the arguments. Perhaps this is why I am so excited to have my own tiny house that I can do with what I want.

So that's the bathroom, and behind it is the laundry.

The kitchen is nearly done. I used blue tiles for the floor and then found it hard to match wallpaper to get the french look I wanted. Oh well. Timber panels with patchwork border are just as nice. I was able to stick in the staircase once I did this part of the wall. 

I covered the stairs with a print-out of pine floorboards that I found on the net. The panelling is made from big paddlepop sticks - tongue depressors - stained with coffee and cut to the right size. The wallpaper border came from a real wallpaper border site. I guess I can admit to pinching the image and reproducing it in publisher. Will anyone sue me? It's personal use and I never could have bought it at 1/12 the size.

This is the children's bedroom. It has polished wood floorboards (paddle pop sticks, dyed with coffee and painted with varnish, green gingham wallpaper and a pink floral border. So far, inside the room is a bought and painted over $2 rocking chair, sized for a child, a home-made white bookshelf (made from tongue depressors) and a dollshouse, painted in the same colours as the actual dollshouse. Sadly, I just couldn't make it so it opened up...

Next door to the bedroom is the study. I've gone for a more formal look with the dark green stripes in the wallpaper. AP was very disappointed by the floor staining and wanted me to fix it, but I figure in an attic, nothing is going to be perfect, so it adds to the character. The table is a $2 job from go-lo.