Painted Chrysnbon plates: Lisa Engler of Lisa's Little Things has terrific painted Chrysnbon plates, cups and saucers. This is the link to her website. You should be able to get more ideas from there.
http://www.lisaslittlethings.com/

Priscilla

Fantastic Salt Water Fish: Marci Trimlett of Key Largo Florida makes the most realistic salt water fish I have ever seen. They look like they came straight from the sea ! I don't know if she still has a web site, but her e-mail addy is marci@weewish.com

Mark and Sharon Stockton

American Science & surplus: Someone may have mentioned this before, but it is worth posting again: American Science & Surplus is a fabulous source for small boxes, wood, motors, light bulbs, and random other things. They sell surplus items very, very cheaply... I just got an order of basswood today, about 10 nice 2"x27" pieces, for about $3.00 total.

Anyone looking for small boxes, wire, wood, tiny zip bags, motors, grain of wheat bulbs, yoga mats, cloth, ribbon, tape... I HIGHLY recommend you check them out! Their website is: http://www.sciplus.com/

Celeste in Boston

Halfscale: I want all the 1/2" scale friends to know, that my website is updated for 2002 and you can see the new 1/2" workshop. it is a attic room with the moonlight and milky way shining through the windows, plus three way lighting and all the goodies please check it out also check out the catalog with 1/2" items, someone was looking for 1/2" furniture.
http://www.Margaretville.com/torre

Rosemarie Torre

50s Living Room in quarter scale: Thanks to the rain today, I stayed put and made my quarter scale living room furniture, plants and wall hangings. I can see why folks like working in this scale. I added pics to the page...just scroll down to the living room pics.
http://www.wishbooktoys.com/dollhouse/50s/

John Medeiros

Micro Chocolaterie: I have recently finished a micro, 1/144 scale, Chocolaterie after being inspired by the movie Chocolat. I loved the movie and the stage sets so much and the music is so inspiring. To get in the mood I bought the sound track and played it while working on the project. If you would like to see my micro it is under My Personal Projects on my site.

http://members.home.net/jday1/jean_day.htm

I have added some of my other room boxes done through the years and I am hoping to have my houses up soon too.

Chocolates are very small in this scale so I used brown silica sand. I did turnings with Light Brite pegs for the candy jars and I am forever grateful to Joann Swanson for coming up with the use of the pegs years ago that inspired me. I have had so much fun with them. I found watch parts that resembled chocolate molds and the bases for pedestal cake plates. The stool is the winder from an old watch. I had so much fun improvising.

Jean Day

1/4 scale people: I needed same and found that in the local $1.00 store, they had bags of 50 plastic soldiers in 1/4 scale size. I splurged and came home with 50 solders in all sorts of military poses and with fighting gear. With my exacto blade and a file I removed all the battle gear and by immersing the plastic figure in VERY hot water I was able to reposition the body parts to my needs. It took a few "dippings" to get the finally positioning. One of the "liberated" solders can be seen in my 1/4 scale amethyst mine shadow box at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/albumIndex?u=67503&a=13032772

I repainted with acrylic paint to my liking.

DrBob

1/4" people: To the person looking for 1/4" people.....try this website: http://patboldtdolls.com/

Shani Nelson

Side Opening House: To all who want to see a house with side-openings: Have you ever seen this website? It has a great house with little shops on the ground floor and lovely rooms : it opens on both sides. But also other great projects worth visiting. Is this a member from SS? I don't know where I got this website, but it is GORGEOUS! Worth visiting and drooling!
http://swallace.bizland.com/chessington_plazamainpage.htm

I have a front opening house, mainly because of the cats and the dust. But I am very happy with it. The front also tells something about the house and the period. AND: What is a shop without a front?!

Atie J. from Holland

Front Opening Dollhouses/Sid Cooke: Oh joy! I'm new to the list but thought I'd jump in on this one as I am currently deeply embroiled in an English style kit.

After years of daydreaming about dollhouses, I finally made the move to dive in. Not being overly fond of the majority of American style houses I spent a weekend scouring the UK websites and ran across the Sid Cooke line:
http://www.sidcooke-dollshouses.sageweb.co.uk/

Their prices for shipping to the US were very reasonable I thought (but I expected it to be hefty, so this could be relative), and they ship directly, so do email them for specifics. They are very forthcoming & friendly. You also, as an American, do not have to pay VAT, so the price is a little cheaper than listed.

I prefer the front opening houses because it is the front of the house that I want displayed on a daily basis and I don't like the idea of turning it around for peaking, but I *do* agree with the windowless box issues Molly mentioned ... which is why I liked some of the Cooke houses as several have internal windows & doors. I picked the Bow St. Corner Shop as it was only two rooms that I could decorate easily, and fit in with my dual purpose of having a shop and also a room to play with. It also helped inspire my theme ... which will be a Hogarth inspired house (with a li'l Tom Jones thrown in), the shop will be a quackish apothecary & the second floor a harlots boudoir (loose inspiration from "The Harlots Progress" & "Before & After"). The exterior (so far) is weathered stone & cracked plaster and is currently entitled "Gin Lane" ... hehe

But as to specifics regarding the Sid Cooke House/Shop (at least the one I am working on) ... it is very sturdy MDF sides & back with plywood fronts. Trim, window & doors included. The windows are molded plastic with *no* glazing ... the door is a little simple so I may replace it with the Houseworks "Palladian" but this will take some adjustment of the door opening. All the parts are cut and no need for punching out, tho some sanding is in order. Had I not been decorating & painting as I went, it could have been up in a day easily. Comes with some wood glue, hinges, nails & fine sandpaper. Excellently packed and with a little extra $ arrived in a week! The main weirdness with the corner shops is that the rooms are roughly 12" x 12" ... and a square room is a little awkward to decorate convincingly.

Kallisti

Front Opening Dollhouses: For those of you who have yet to be converted to front opening houses (I have both, but I much prefer the front opening ones as I have an inquisitive cat and two children).

I think these houses are a natural evolution from the cupboard houses which
were the first kind of baby houses.

Go and look at Honeychurch toys' site. All their houses are front opening, but the facades can be extremely elaborate. I love them, especially the corner shop! They're beautifully cut and constructed, too. http://www.honeytoys.co.uk/houses/hdhouses01.html

My big half timbered house opens at the front and the side. It was made by a local joiner, who did what he thought was best. What I love about the openings is that each room has its own opening, so you can have one room open at a time (except for the attics, where the roof is hinged up). all the joins are hidden by the timbers. I love it! When DH gets round to taking some pics for me, I'll put them up on my website, to show you what I mean.

Lynne Connolly

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

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

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

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

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