Final guest post: The honeymoon from Sans

Sans sent this inspirational photo. Oh I can smell the flowers and taste the cake. "All you need is LOVE, everybody" now where have I heard that before...

After the wedding? The honeymoon! Enjoy this inspiration from her recent trip to Bali, and check out these pictures and more from her blog.

http://sansdollhousediaries.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html

And where is my ElderAssistant and her husband headed??? The Bahamas of course...

Thank you Sans for this loveliness! MOB,now MIL (Mother in Law), too! Cheers C

On to Pennyslvania

So we continue on to the Antiqueing part of the trip. We drive to Pennsylvania and go to work.

And what happens? We are in a shop in Shrewsbury and the depression glass plates start rattling and the floor rolls. I ask, "is that an earthquake?" and the shop owner says "No that's just a truck going by".

Well, I am not from California for nothing... It was a rare earthquake on the Eastern Seaboard. The store owners went and stood in the door frames in case of after shocks. Everyone's cell phones went off with the big news. 

We were like, "Excuse me... how much is this..." but the owners were busy comparing damages. There were none. Anywhere. Just some cans on the floor of some grocery stores in Virginia.

Oh and did I tell you I hate to fly, lost my xanax and a hurricane is headed this way... The good news? It poured rain the weekend before the wedding, and New Jersey is having a hurricane warning this coming weekend, so I guess my Elder Assistant lucked out with the perfect weather for her wedding in between! Oh, and I now own 19 dollhouses... going through security with it was fun, it has old wiring. Cheers C

Daphne holds Colette's hand through the wedding

Shale helps me get the Bride to the Chrurch on time.

Photos by Shale

                                 Face us little flower girl!

For the adventures of Daphne and Colette go to  Shale's blog. Click
here: http://susanshouses.blogspot.com/

Photos, photos  and  more photos... it gets tiring smiling...

YAY! On to the reception!

Guest post from Rebecca's Collections

 Well love must be in the air! These Erna Meyer dolls are getting married too!

               How sweet are they? Is this a 1950's bride and groom?

              The Groom in this one looks like Mr. Darcy to me!
              For more go to:

         http://RebeccasCollections.blogspot.com/  and check out the beautiful wedding pictures from her family! They are so historic.

                     Cheers for Australia!  Thank you Rebecca,
                                  it will truly be a G'day for us! C

Update: OK so every wedding has it's own stories... My Elder Assistant informed me the Groom got a black eye! How?  This weekend, being a nice family kind of guy he went to his sister's high school daughter's graduation party. He went down a waterslide and the foot of a little boy kicked him in the face. Presto a swollen eye. Everyone assures me it will be gone by the wedding but maybe HE will have to wear the veil! Honestly! Tell your children to elope! The good thing is his whole family was there to witness it so they won't think he is being coerced into marriage... MOB (mother of the Bride)

Guest Blog by Mini Modern

Thank you Mini Modern for guest blogging for me this week as I am off to my Elder Assistant's wedding. I wish you all could come, but at least we can celebrate this happy event in blogland.

We love this festive setting! The bride wishes her real reception was this palate and the Little Assistant is ready to eat the cakes!

Look at the glass marbles! How clever!

                      Reception by Modern MC in the Villa Sibi

The Bride told Shale and I we may bring out Daphne and Colette... After the papers are signed...

The Goods: Main table is PDR, Guest tables and chairs are Bozart Toys, cake tables are children's blocks, Buffet table is Selecta, white panels are minimodernistas, vases are CB2, all accessories are
Re-Ment, Mighty World, Bozart Toys, Mattel, DCWV, and common craft store finds.

Thank you for this beautiful and happy scene! I am so excited!
 C and Co.

Tomy Smaller Home Today

photo by Callofthesmall

Here is a picture of the Tomy Smaller home designed by Call of the Small. She brings her contemporary design touch to this model using a variety of different dollhouse accessories. See her post here 

 http://call-small.blogspot.com/2011/06/tomy-smaller-home-kitchen.html/  

to see an updated view of this wonderful ranch house as we say goodbye to the Tomy Smaller Home dollhouse.

Well, August is wedding month for my elder assistant. The religious papers are signed... the caterers deposit cashed, the dress fits... So BRING IT ON! Cheers, C

The people who live in Tomy

photo by The Shopping Sherpa

photo by The Shopping Sherpa

You have GOT to love these jeans!

photo by Cracklin Tulip

see her flickr stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cracklintulip/5562636301/

photo by Chris Cute from flickr posted January 31, 2008

see her flickr stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9193648@N05/2234726803/

So the thing is... as a collector of mini homes with 18 plus and SCORES of other furniture and accessories... how am I going to deal with being bi-coastal now that my elder assistant is putting down roots back East?

I do not own the Tomy Smaller home dollhouse and it kills me every time I hear someone say "oh yes, I picked it up at a yard sale for a dollar..." OK not really, but that's how it feels. So the point being,

I am waiting until SHE gets a house to put my next aquisitions there for her putative children, really not for me. Really.

Her fiance knows what he is in for because right now in their TINY one room apt. is a gigantic gambrel style dollhouse I gave them for my future grand daughter... Shale and I picked it up in Pennsylvania and I am putting Tynietoy in it. They laughed at me... but then my daughter told me they were watching tv in the living room and her fiance got up and adjusted the chandeliere because it bothered him

that it wasn't perfect. Gotcha!

Jessy told him she's a 2 for 1. (Jessy's Mom comes along with her).

I'm surprised it didn't scare him off!

Of course once grandchildren appear, Mothers in Law are needed. Especially if they have more than one child. Right, with the cost of babysitting.

So I have to wait for my own Tomy, I mean my future grandchild's Tomy.  Hopefully not for long... Cheers, C