Rosemary's Custom Greenleaf Storybook Dollhouse

Well, I promised eye candy and here it is. This is the Thatched roof cottage I did for a customer of mine. She is doing the insides herself. The stones, bricks, plaster and even the roof is all made from creative paperclay. This was a fun project and it was wonderful to meet another miniaturist that lives close by. She said she only lives 25 minutes away from me which is Wonderful!!





I used a herringbone pattern for the brick on the entryway

Rosemary's Cottage (Greenleaf Buttercup) Kit

I have been busy working on two houses for a customer of mine. She ordered two houses from me a little bit after Thanksgiving. She only wanted the outsides done and those of you who know me know how much I enjoy doing the outsides of houses.

She choose two Greenleaf dollhouses for me to customize and make it unique for her. The first house was a Buttercup and that is what is featured in the pictures in this post. I used Creative paperclay to create the stones & brick. I created the door myself because she wanted it to be different from the door that came with the kit.

You can see the birds nest & turtle

Mr hedgehog





Smoke Puff

Completed Greenleaf Pierce Dollhouse Kit by Tracy Topps

This is the point when the Greenleaf Kit is transformed into a Unique Creation By Tracy Topps (Minisontheedge.com) . This house was named the Peacock Palace (Or Peacock Castle is what Lena Calls it) This is when all of my excitement spills over and explodes!!

I hope you Enjoy the finished project pictures! If you have questions or want one built by me, contact me at myminishop@yahoo.com .  There are ways to cut corners so that you will get a stunning house of your dreams within your budget that will look fantastic. My wish is that this house will become a house this family cherishes and hand down for generations to come.

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Building The Greenleaf Pierce Porch Posts Almost Completed!!

The house is really coming together very nice. This is one of my most favorite Greenleaf dollhouse builds! Make you want to build one too doesn't it?
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Now, I will add the trees and moss and anything needed to bring this house to life! Wanna see it Completed? Click here Cause,  Baby I'm finished and ready to Deliver!!

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Building the Greenleaf Pierce Windows & Painting - Day 12

Well, I was so excited to think that maybe, just maybe I would not have to put together the widows that came with the kit. I had decided to upgrade to the wonderful windows that Greenleaf sells for this kit. This was my plan ALL along . I got them in last week and Ohhhhh Noooooo! They are too modern!! I don't know why they did not look modern to me from the picture on the site (Sheesh, I even blew up the picture so I could see the details . The timberbook windows are perfect if you are gonna do anything but a CASTLE theme and I highly recommend them because they will save you time and they are WORKING. Well, After slept on it (to give myself some good ideas) I decided it would be better for me to make my windows and use the diamond printed window inserts that I had made a little bit ago. They turned out wonderful! I am so excited about them too. The kit windows take some time to build because there are 5 pieces for each exterior window & 4 for the interior ones. They really, REALLY look good with this house though. It's amazing how the windows change the look of the house. I can totally see this house complete in my minds eye and I am so anxious to get it done.

At this point, I have used 5 packs of 16 oz paperclay. I added and applique to each side of the stairs and then one above where the circular trim piece fit in. I am not sure if I am going to keep it that color though. I started adding clay to the foundation and then decided to add the base. I don't know why but I am avoiding the start of the shingle process. I guess it is because I want to do square Butt Wood Shingles But then again, I like the Clay ones. Doing the foundation and base gave me more time to think about it.

Back wall turret & Shingles 
This is the back roof. I made the roof pointed to match the front one.

Now I paint!



Kitchen bay wall

Chimney breast

Front tower roof

entry door

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Building The Greenleaf Pierce Outside Clay Stone & Brick - Day 10 -11

The porch roof has been added and it was simple to glue together. I used Quick Grip glue because it has a firm and fast grip on the parts needing to be glued together. The Porch roofs were added before the clay was! I changed the roof to the tower and made it pointed. The clay is drying on this side of the house.

Henry finally started sculpting the stones in the clay. first he put timber up and stained them. Then he started adding the brick & stone look to the clay. We keep telling Henry to please be careful going up and down the ladder!!

I have used 4 packs of 16oz paperclay so far here! Henry had a problem putting in doors and decided to get more help! These are the windows for the dinning room door. Laura, since I know ya like peacocks, I thought I would add a couple here. (It was so cool to find out that me and Lena's mom have SOOOo Much in common, we both love peacocks, and have a lot in common as to style and even personality traits. This was a cool and such a fun project for me)!!

This is Chuck, he installed the porch lights

Henry Really loves his Crew of workers.  Chuck is the young construction worker and the guy with the construction hat on name is Steve. You met young Bobby earlier. Yeap, they are all related.

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Building the Greenleaf Pierce Construction Crew and Electrical Help

Here is Henry's Construction Crew. Today, his little nephew is visiting too.

Here are more shots of the wires taped flush to the house:

Today I spent my time adding extra wire so that I could add them to the tape wire in the bottom of the house. Once I made all 13 wires long enough, I had to solder them together and then, I soldered it to the tape wire.

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Building The Greenleaf Pierce - Round Wire Day 9

The roof has been attached without any issues. These wires were fed to the outside walls. Because the wires were too short to reach the base, they had to be lengthened and soldered to the bottom base. Then they were soldered to the tape wire:

I added tape wire to the bottom base (1st floor). I will solder the wires from the lights & outlets to the tape wire.

I soldered all of wires to the strip of tape wire.

This is the attic painted with only one shade of paint so far. Torches has been added:

fireplace is lit too

walls painted

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