Understickum: One of my favorite things is a little plastic jar of Understickum. It's a soft wax so will not harm wood. Look for a small plastic, round, yellow tub. Quake Wax is similar. Recently, our club displayed at NAME and one lady had a teashop full of porcelain. She used Silicone to hold everything in place...and it stayed there. Takes some work pealing it off. It's for things you want to stay there almost forever.

Laurie Sisson

Dulling Paper Carpets: When I make rugs from glossy magazine cutouts, I coat the picture with a thin layer of Mod Podge, then lay a single ply of tissue across it, press into the glue, and let it dry. When dry you will be able to see the pattern through the tissue, and the carpet has a realistic fabric-like texture--"dull" like fabric, not shiny.

Celeste Ng

Miniature Book Sites:
A totally delightful stroll down mini book lane! http://www.mbs.org/
Tuttle Antequarian Books http://www.tuttlebooks.com/minibooks.htm
The Microbibiliophile http://www.microbibliophile.com/index.htm

Judie

¼" Furniture: I carry the inexpensive sets of 1:48 scale furniture on my web site. Look under "SMALLER SCALES" then Plastic Furniture. I don't think there's a nursery available. I've never seen one, anyway. http://www.minikitz.com

Debbie Jones

1/2 & 1/4 Southwest Kits: Check JB's Doll Houses & Miniatures (in Arizona) for smaller scale
Southwestern kits. http://jbsdollhousesminiatures.com

Anne Gerdes

Half Scale: if you or anybody else looking for 1/2" go to my web site catalog and price list Http://www.margaretville.com/torre.

Rosemarie Torre

Half Scale: Fantasy Craft has SW room boxes and 1/2" dollhouses. Check out my site http://JBsDollhousesMiniatures.com for 1/2" SW furniture kits. Click on miniatures.

Jackie

1/2" glasses: Char Lee - Linden-Swiss Miniatures carries 1/2" scale glasses, among many other neat things. Their products are turned acrylic, but when painted with clear nail polish, look just like glass. Here is their web site: http://hometown.aol.com/LinSwisMin/LSM.HTML

Ruth, Grass Valley, CA

Lighthouses and Pirates: All this talk of pirates and lighthouses lately prompts me to mention that in the new issue (No. 106) of Dolls House World, there is a review of a lighthouse kit, which looks really good, and also an article on how to make a pirate, complete with treasure chest.

Annie

Log Cabins: Here's a link I found for 1/2 scale log cabin reproductions. Someone might get ideas for doing their own. http://www.1860woodcompany.com/

Kim