Scotty Room: it might be nice if your room had a dog bed in it, like the Orvis/LLBean style "dog nests" or whatever they call them. Also a little water dish and kibble dish. Maybe you don't want to put kibble in it; I don't know of to many dogs that would leave it until it's empty!

Joanne

Scotty Room: The person looking for Scottie motifs might look at Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine. Center section usually has ME merchandise for sale, illustrated with useful small pictures of the items, and the Scottie is one of her favorite motifs. I found paper dolls for my toy shop in one of these ads. Gift shops in your area that carry ME merchandise may also have gift wrap or something with the little dogs.

Loretta.Sniarowski

Scotty Room: I know Pam Scott has instructions for a really neat 1/4 scale Scotty kitchen on her website, perhaps it could be adapted for your 1" project: http://members.aol.com/prsweb/scottiekitch.html

John Medeiros

Outdoor Lights: Dollshouse World , Issue 66 of March 1998 has directions for a street lamp with a "lantern" top. They use an empty cotton reel, disposable ballpoint pen, rubber tap washer, and grain of wheat light bulb. cocktail stick, cardboard, thin Perspex, adhesive tape, black paint, glue. The (Gutermans) reel forms the base, with the emptied ballpoint pen forming the pole. It has diagrams for cutting the Perspex and the roof. Looks like the real thing.

Betsie

Electrics: I wanted to tell you all that I have recently received 5 star service from the copper connection, a shop that specialize in electrics etc. for dollhouses. their address is also on the web site: http://www.copperconnection.co.uk I found them to be a wonderfully friendly & helpful business and cheaper than elsewhere I've found!! (they cater for 1:24 also. check it out).

Christine from Chorley

Insulating Spliced Wires: I'd suggest using heat shrink tubing. It does come in white (though not very supplier carries that color), but you could probably paint the clear stuff, after it's shrunk, with acrylic paint. Because you have twice as much wire at the splice, you're going to have a bump no matter what you do. Depending on how you buy your tubing, you could also encase the whole length of the cord to minimize the difference in size--be sure to insulate the splice first.

Trish in Sunnyvale, CA

Medieval: I have some on my web site at http://www.spminiatures.com/medievalmain.html

Carol

Medieval Furniture: I think that in medieval times furniture did not really amount to much more than planks and pallets unless you were very wealthy and even then it was still pretty basic. It was in Elizabethan and Jacobean times that furniture became stylish and decorative as well as fit for a purpose. I have some early Tudor/Jacobean style dining and bedroom furniture available on my web site if you'd like to take a look http://www.littlebylittle.co.uk

Karon

Medieval: The Wild Orchid has wonderful medieval things! I'm not sure what their web address is, but here's the email: OrchidMini@aol.com. They are from here in Central Iowa and are very nice people!

Sloan

Mini Golf Course: Finally something I have actually done. My boss was retiring so I made him a small acrylic box golf scene. He is a big time golfer who was determined to convert me, I kept trying to explain that without a clown mouth to shoot through or a windmill to avoid it was a hopeless idea :) Green felt makes great looking grass for your course and a 1/4 inch or smaller hole punch are an instant hole in one. I had small rounded white beads which were remarkable golf balls, especially if you "sink" them in the hole disguising the holes in the bead. I used floral wire for the stem of the flag and cut out the flag from colored heavy bond paper (2 pieces, so you can sandwich the wire in-between). I also put a number in a circle in the center of the flag to represent the whole number. I had a couple of golf clubs lying by the whole and a copy of the "Idiots Guide to Golf". Plus a golf visor, trophy and a pair of golf shoes minus their owner...wonder how that happened.

Suzy