Twilight's Bella & Edward's Dollhouse Cottage

No this is not the real one yet (Working on it next year) But was I playing with my newest house last night (No I am not finished with it yet). I have Bella Swan & Edward Cullen Action figures in front of the house. I know, I have way too much fun with these houses and need to get working on finishing it. Enjoy the pictures:







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Update on The Fairy Tale Dollhouse Cottage

I just wanted to post a couple of updated pictures of the new cottage. To see even more pictures, please click on any image to see what photos are in the album!

New Dollhouse Creation by Tracy Topps

Yes, I am working on a new Project that is for sell. These are pictures of what it looked like last week before I went away for the weekend. This is an altered and bashed Greenleaf Buttercup Cottage and I created & edited it to fit what has been going on in my imagination for a couple of years now. It should be complete and ready to ship next week.

If you are interested in buying this cottage, please feel free to contact me via myminishop@yahoo.com

The Fire walk with Anthony Robbins

Well, I am back from my Wonderful Long weekend . My husband and I did a seminar together and I am still not ready to type out all of what I experienced yet. It was Amazing! We all had the chance to walk on hot coals (yes, real burning, steaming hot skin searing coals at 2000 degrees) and my Husband (Who I have now given the title "Fire Walker") did it!!

I chickened out, Can you believe it! ME, the bold, courageous & fearless one LOL. My husband is usually the "responsible" one and we had to drive 50 min back home and I was afraid we would burn our feet and be stuck with no place to stay so I wouldn't do the Fire walk.

I stood and watched everyone come back in through the back doors and NO one that I could tell had a burn on their feet. My husband was fine and I was so proud of him! He did something that he normally would not do where as I guess I did too. I did not take a chance (which is really different for me). Sheesh, my name is Tracy and it means "Bold, Courageous or Defender" (that's the feminine definition LOL). But I guess I did not think my husband was gonna actually do it because he had been saying all along that he would "Never do that" and of course I had been telling him for months why he should and why I am going to do it LOL. I was also a little nervous at the last minute that I would be burned and unable to work out and do my P90X this week. Hey, I lost 38 pounds and want to lose another 11 before the end of the year and I can't do that with burned feet, right (yeap, me making excusses LOL) ? Oh well, I guess it just means that I have to go to another one of Tony Robbins events so that I can experience the Fire Walk.
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So far, that is the only thing I can write about from this weekends expirence. It has been a Wonderful experience and all I can say is I am feeling like the Tracy I used to know and I am excited to Welcome myself back to living. I learned a lot more than I anticipated I would about myself and how I let things & people around me change me so much. Anyway, I'm back big time baby!!

I have several houses to complete this week so, I better jump on it. I hope everyone had a Great weekend too & Thanks for stopping by to read my blog!!

I'll post pictures of the next house that I am finishing up that will be for sell. It will be available to purchase next week. All other houses I am working on are already sold (if you want one for the Holidays, place your orders NOW). So, off to the Dungeon I go so I can get some work done.

My Friend Lynette Weight Loss Story

My Friend Lynette & her weight loss journey!

Well, I posted a new picture in my profile today and had a friend pop in to instant message me on facebook LOL I did not know I could do that in facebook (told ya I still don't understand the facebook thing but I'm getting there). It was so good to hear her voice and catch up.

She's has been my inspiration for working out this year. She has lost a total of 330 pounds. You can see pictures of here weight loss journey HERE . You can read and be inspired too by it by reading HERE . We met online many years ago (at least 6 years ago) and have had the chance to become really good friends and have even met offline in person to take classes together at the Bishop show about 4 years ago which were totally fun. You Go Nutti Web Gal and for those who know her personally, she is Lynette! Hugs & Congratulations to you my friend!! Thank you for always being such a bright spot of sunshine in the lives of many of us!!

this is her before the weight loss picture and what she looked like when I saw her in person:

She always have such a positive outlook and was always so cheerful. You would have never guess the turmoil she was feeling inside.
This is her now!!
I hope to be able to meet with her next year and catch up and have some fun! The Great thing is Lynette is still the same fun and cheerful person she has always been. I miss her on the Greenleaf dollhouse forum but I am so happy she is LIVING her life and enjoying it more actively now!


Okay, I am going to work out now!

Dollhouse Appreciation Month Contest

Tracy Topps (that's me) & Deb Roberts (of Deb's Minis) are having a Fun Fall Contest on the Greenleaf Forum! Come Join in on the fun. See more details about how to enter and to see the przes by Clicking here: Fall Fun Contest


Prizes Are 1" Scale

First Place Prizes Are:





Second Place Prizes Are:





Third Place Prizes Are:






Also, all three winners will receive some other Wooden Craft Kits donated by our favorite Company, Greenleaf!

September 2009 Greenleaf Dollhouse Gazette

That's Right, The Greenleaf Gazette is up and Ready for everyone to check it out. Read about what's going on with our Favorite Dollhouse Company & see what has been going on at the Greenleaf Dollhouse Forum Click Below:

September 2009 Greenleaf Gazette

If you have not already joined our Greenleaf Family, now is a GREAT time to sign up and become part of our Wonderful Dollhouse Family!! Click Below:

Greenleaf Forum

Thanks for stopping by to read my Blog Today!!

Greenleaf Taft General Store Kit

Greenleaf Just released a new Laser Cut house (It went live last night in their online shop). The Taft General store is such a cool kit and is bigger than the Brimbles Mercantile. One of the cool features I love about it is the fact that it has outdoor stairs so the stairs will not crown the room space. The shop can be downstairs and you can have living quarters upstairs!

It's a cool and fast build too. To Order one and to see bigger pictures, click here:

http://shop.greenleafdollhouses.com/Taft-General-Store-Dollhouse-Kit.html

Custom Dollhouse Whispering Cove

This is the Whispering Cove. It's a dollhouse dream that started with a customer wanting me to build her a Cottage from the Orchid dolhouse kit. My customer decided she wanted something much more grand than just a cottage. This Customized Orchid now features a Tower, Cave, wrap around stone stairs and it all pops right out of the Rock like mountain base. Better pictures are forth coming when the weather finally gets better here but I wanted you all to begin the weekend with some cool eye candy!

The cool and Handsome guy is, of course, Edward Cullen once again. I Love this action figure. He has a James Dean look about him.

See more pictures by Clicking Here

Medieval Times Food & Tournamnt

Saturday, we took the family to Medieval Times for dinner and tournament. We had gone before about 4 years ago when Sarah was much younger so we decided to treat them and go again. Also, this time, David's Wife & his best friend Daniel went with us too. It was Daniel's first time going and we all had a lot of fun. My husband grew up around the area where the Illinois Castle was and we had fun looking at newly built houses from his old stomping grounds. We went past the house Walter Payton (Bears Football star) used to live in. It looks different than it did years ago and it even hard to see it now from the street.

after that we got to the Castle and were greeted by several people dressed in Medieval attire. We did the Royalty Upgrade package so we were able to move to the front of the line. We were welcomed by some Squires & Maidens who gave us our Crowns (we were on the Blue team this time ) and then the King greeted us and took 2 pictures with us and told us to have a wonderful time in his domain.

Daniel dressed up a bit because he loves the Medieval stuff a goes to our local Renaissance Fair by us and dresses up. We were able to shop before the dinner & Tourney started. We also were able to buy ourselves something to drink before the official dinner & tournament from the 2 "pubs" that were there with serving wench's LOL . My son got a drink called the 1st knight and it came with such a cool looking golden glass that was shaped like a knight's helmet.

We were all called into the main room so that we could enter and be seated for the Dinner (which we ate by hand) & Tournament. We were served Dragon Toe Stew, Garlic Bread, half a Bird (Chicken), Rat Tail (Spare rib) & a Castle Pastry (apple turn over). We also had a choice of Pepsi, Sprite or water and also something from the Pub (bar).

While they served our meals the show started and we were introduced to our knight whom we cheered loudly for.

We were in the second row and had pretty good seats. We were able to Booo the bad guys & Cheer on all of the Great knights in battle. All in all, we had a lot of fun and it was a great way to end summer (even though school had already started).


If you have a Medieval Times around, I would totally recommend you to go and check it out. It was a lot of fun for everyone. Here is the Link to see the website and more info for Medieval Times .

Bishop Miniature show 2010 workshops

Saturday, I was rushing. My husband had morning blocked off because he had an appointment. Then when he got back at 12:30 pm he announced he had to get his hair cut. I started plotting the night before telling him we should go get the new Apple upgrade "Snow Leopard" but I told him we had to go to the Apple store at Woodfield Mall (not the closest one to us LOL ) he was okay with it but could not understand WHY I was rushing.

I was rushing because Saturday was the Fall Tom Bishop Miniature show and this is the show they have examples & samples of the classes for the Spring International dollhouse & Miniature show. I always like to be first to see it because I have a few extra days to think & decided which class I wish to take before the classes are posted on their official website ( www.bishopshow.com ).

Since we had just come back from the Ohio Miniature show less than a week before, I did not want to tell my husband right away that I wanted to make a pit stop at the Fall show. When I finally told him why I think he understood that Resistance would be Futile and so we went and got there 30 mins. before the show was over for the day. I only came to see the workshops anyway so. I got there and low & behold, one of the workshops were already full!! It is the one titled "Home for the Holidays" by Whitledge/Burgess and it is a four day class that is just beautiful. I did not get a good shot of it because it had glass in front of the display and the windows were behind me. I darkened the picture some so you could see it better but The Bishop's will have the real picture up on their site in about a week:


There are so many wonderful classes to pick from. I only took a few shots because others were busy looking too. Leni Bishop teased & laughed at me and said she knew I'd come and she said she knew I only came to the Fall show to see the classes. She even went to the table and showed me some of her favorite ones. I think tohey put on such a Top notch show and I can't wait till Spring!!!

Here are pictures of some of the classes I was able to capture on my camera:

Bishop Show workshops 2010

I am in love with the 1/4th scale stone cottage :) I have not decided on the classes I wish to take for sure yet. My daughter Rachel loves the Moonlit Japanese Room. I may let her take a class this year. She's 12 now and will be almost 13 by then and she really do love miniatures. I'll keep you all posted.