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My Montgomery Hall: An 'inside the house' update............

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Montgomery Hall is a Georgian dolls house that I bought from Ebay. I have decided to decorate in a Victorian style. This blog is a record of my renovation attempts! Saturday, 19 February 2011. An 'inside the house' update. I have been making pictures, and am now using long gone relatives! Since the death of my mother and my inherited boxes and boxes of pictures I have despaired with what to do with them and have started putting them on disk - it occurred to me that many of the black and white images coul...

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My Montgomery Hall: A Venture into Polymer Clay!

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Montgomery Hall is a Georgian dolls house that I bought from Ebay. I have decided to decorate in a Victorian style. This blog is a record of my renovation attempts! Friday, 4 February 2011. A Venture into Polymer Clay! Given dollshouse miniatures are so expensive I have resolved to master the art of making things from polymer clay! First attempt at bread! Second attempt at bread and some tomatoes. I then moved on to try carrots which a little girl on You Tube assured me were very easy! I am totally in aw...

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My Montgomery Hall: Quilts and other matters!

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Montgomery Hall is a Georgian dolls house that I bought from Ebay. I have decided to decorate in a Victorian style. This blog is a record of my renovation attempts! Wednesday, 2 March 2011. Quilts and other matters! Our new Housekeeper, Mrs Ott is still moving about the house waiting for her room to be ready! She was delighted to recieve a beautiful new patchwork quilt in the post the other day - as you can see it was a big hit with everyone! A friend kindly offered to try her hand at quilting 12th scale!

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My Montgomery Hall: Inspiration and Innovation!

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Montgomery Hall is a Georgian dolls house that I bought from Ebay. I have decided to decorate in a Victorian style. This blog is a record of my renovation attempts! Thursday, 27 January 2011. Having discovered Heidi Ott and thinking life could not get any better! Now I have discovered Jiayi and Reutter - don't worry I bought some Fimo! Currently now lusting after one of Jiayi's beautiful handpainted silk sofa sets! Bought this Jiayi unit second hand - my usual Ebay! Well all I have to do now is paper!

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons: Blue and Yellow Colour Mixing Landscape

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons. Art lesson ideas, thoughts and links to help anyone wanting to do art with children. Thursday, 11 January 2007. Blue and Yellow Colour Mixing Landscape. Paint a yellow hill-like stripe starting higher on the left than the right. Add a tiny bit of blue, then paint a stripe starting high on the right and going down to the left. Keep doing this, gradually adding more blue all the time, until you get to near blue in the foreground. You may also like to look at. Blue and Yell...

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons: SHAPES IN ART

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons. Art lesson ideas, thoughts and links to help anyone wanting to do art with children. Sunday, 18 February 2007. A series of books that is very useful for showing children paintings by a variety of important artists is the, "I Spy" series. I Spy Shapes in Art" has a collection of pictures of paintings by artist's such as Kandinsky, Matisse, Hockney, Homer, Torres-Garcia, and Warhol, amongst others. On each page there is a shape to look for in the picture.

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons: WAX RESIST NOUNS

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons. Art lesson ideas, thoughts and links to help anyone wanting to do art with children. Saturday, 17 February 2007. If you want to reinforce what "NOUNS" are this is quite a fun way to do it, and you also end up with some nice pictures to display. Explain what nouns are and then let the children draw a picture, representing a noun, onto white paper using a white candle or a white wax crayon. It may help to get the children to write what it is on the paper.

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons: ANIMAL VERBS

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons. Art lesson ideas, thoughts and links to help anyone wanting to do art with children. Tuesday, 27 February 2007. Choose an animal and get the children to all draw the same animal, "doing" something. You can get some animals doing some quite "wacky" things. You may want to give each child a verb to illustrate in advance. These can make a nice literacy display, all put together. You may also like to look at. FOCUS OF A FATHER'S LOVE. Useful Books On Amazon.

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons: March 2010

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Ideas For Children's Art Lessons. Art lesson ideas, thoughts and links to help anyone wanting to do art with children. Sunday, 21 March 2010. MESS FREE JACKSON POLLOCK. If you need to cover the artist Jackson Pollock in class but can't bear the mess here are two options. A more interesting option, (which I also think is quite therapeutic for stressed adults too) is a website. If you need a good book to use with children try Jackson Pollock from "The Getting to know the Worlds Greatest Artistists Series.