Hanging Greenhouse plants - I took a tip from my real greenhouse when hanging plants. I extended a pole the length of my lean-to greenhouse ,suspending the pole from the hip roof the whole length of the green house and hung the plants on the pole. You could either use wire on each end and attach it to the roof or use wire on either end of the "pole" the length of the greenhouse. Plants would be moveable, temporary and the pole can be removed eventually. The pole can be a straw, stiff wire, coated bell wire, or dowel. They are all light weight.

Gail

Lundby Houses: Here is a site for the LUNDBY houses: http://www.nancysdollhouses.com/products6.htm

Dollladie

Book Ends: Check out places like Office Max, garage sales, etc. for plain bookends that can have a little display mounted on them. Some bookends are shaped like an upside-down T so that one protrusion slips under the books, and the other sticks out to the side of the books. That second protrusion can have a display glued to it. Or... if the bookend is shaped like an L with only one protrusion to slip under the books, you could build a little box with a floor, two sides and a back, to glue to the upward (outside) portion of the L and set your display inside that

Viola Williams

BOOK-ENDS: To make a simple and easy one I took an L shaped metal book- end and glued a black novel, 8 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 inch on the up right section (metal INSIDE the book) Then took another black novel Approximately the same size and cut it down in height to 5 1/2 inch. This I glued ON TOP of the bottom of the book-end, butting the cut edge up against the other book. On the up-right book I put some glue on the inside pages to keep it shut. On this I plan on putting a memory trunk, a mannequin dressed in the early 1900's, a mirror above the open trunk maybe an old picture.

Helen from San Diego

Boarding House Occupants: Over the years, as I dreamed this dream of mine, I populated it with all kinds of people....they kept changing over the years as did my interests, however, there was always one that was permanent.......an old woman, probably widowed for many years, with all her life around her....perhaps a lot of Victorian type furniture, lots of pictures, doilies, bureau runners, an old wringer washer. Nothing broken, ready for the trash heap, just old 'stuff'

Dawn

Boarding house: You should probably have a room for the traveling salesman who uses his room as a home base for his business during the week. He isn't the one that knows the farmer's daughter, btw;), he is fairly respectable. He has a large sales case full of "useful gadgets that no home should be without". I think he may sitting at the desk working over the days receipts and going over his inventory to see what he needs to stock up on.

Kim from Canada

Boarding house: sales people of different kinds would have interesting stuff: a shoe salesman with all kinds of shoes, a jewelry salesman with watches and other jewelry, even a brush salesman (like the old Fuller Brush salesmen) - he'd have all kinds of household brushes and gadgets. Or a traveling musician with musical instruments. But I still think you already have the best idea yourself in the vaudeville actor with costumes and props. Or a magician. You could have bunnies and doves sitting around a black top hat, for example.

Paulette in IN

Boarding House: Definitely a Traveling Salesman, a Young Married Couple, a Very Prim and Proper Older Lady, and of course the Proprietor who just might be the VP&PO lady. She would have to rent out rooms since she is down on her luck. Don't forget her cats or perhaps a small lap dog.

Patricia / Redwood City, CA

Boarding House: my former husband's mother ran a rooming house many years ago in NY. and BOY! did he have some stories about the many people that lived there! But on to suggestions-- How about a magician--I picture all sorts of magic things about the room, cards, doves in a cage, colored handkerchiefs tied together, something poking out the sleeve of tux, top hat, and maybe several rabbits that have escaped their cage! Also if you can have an attic, maybe an artist resides there with paints, easel, several canvases-one-in-progress (maybe a nude?) Also an actress with several costumes and posters of herself in various plays displayed, her makeup kit?

Darlene in Baton Rouge

Boarding House: For your boarding house I would have some really seedy characters sprinkled among some 'normal' ones. Start with an alcoholic in Apartment 1, he could live in squalor with his room full or empty bottles. Next door to him an old lady pensioner. Nothing too scruffy or destitute, but a pensioner doing it tough. Across the hall, a trashy peroxide blonde floozy with long red nails and lots of men's phone numbers next to the phone. Next to her a middle aged man, perhaps an accountant who lives with his mother and has no life of his own. A biker could live upstairs and a drummer from a rock band who practices all night. Down the hall from them there could be a family cramped into an apartment with six screaming kids, a mad woman who lives with 200 cats, or a pair of prim spinsters, twins, who live a quiet and secluded life and venture out to help in the Charity shop. Perhaps if you get really stuck you could have had a fire in one apartment and just blacken the walls and outside the windows on the bricks so it looks like smoke and fire damage. There could be a dazed smoker asleep on the couch oblivious to the fact he has burnt out his apartment but lived to tell the tale. What about a truck driver who is a really big bloke, scary sorta guy? A reptile fanatic with aquariums full of snakes? A 'gothic' couple? A spiffy professional couple or an architect whose apartments are really trendy and chic? A really rich dame on the top floor with a really sumptuous apartment? A gambler who holds illegal card games long into the night with all sorts of seedy underworld characters? If I made an apartment block the Department of Health would condemn it. Would there be communal bathrooms?? You could have fun with overflowing toilets, people being caught in the shower. What about the laundry room? Dirty underpants hanging around, clothes hanging from the clothes rail from the ceiling. Whatever you decide to do a good hint is to plan your house and then construct it out of foam core board first so that you know where doors and windows should go in relation to your plan and whether they work with other rooms and landings etc. (A tip I picked up from Small Stuff!)

Trace, Melbourne, Australia