THE DOLLHOUSE.

First of all, thanks so much to all of you who bid on the LarissaFund auction to help Larissa Ione and also for the Romance Designs prize packs to benefit other victims of Hurricane Katrina. Your bids and donations were greatly appreciated!

In other news, I accidentally sprained my wrist rather badly this week. So, needless to say, I'm having a difficult time typing...still have a clunky bandage rapped around my wrist for support.

Anyway, aside from spraining my wrist this week, one of the things I did was to buy a dollhouse kit. I've always wanted one of these, and since the one I wanted, the San Franciscan, was manufactured by Duracraft, which company went out of business this year, I decided I had better buy one while there was still one to be bought.

This is (hopefully!) what it will look like when finished:


As you can see, it's a beautiful Victorian Painted Lady.

Right now, however, it's in dozens of pieces, which my husband, John, and I carefully counted, measured, and marked last night, to be certain the kit was complete and not missing any parts.

This morning, while I was asleep, John glued the base together to make a start, and this evening, we plan to begin construction on the shell itself.

John was amused because I already know who is going to live in the house and what her story is. He said I was putting the cart before the horse, since the house isn't even built yet. I only smiled and replied, "I'm a writer. I always know my characters and their stories before I ever start putting anything down on paper. Why should my dollhouse be any different?"

He realized, then, that a dollhouse is really just an imaginary world, much like those I create in my novels. So I think this is going to be a fun project! I'll let you know how it goes.

Read: The Dollhouse - Part 3.
Read The Dollhouse - Part 2.