Getting back at it

 Hi everyone.  I know I should feel guilty for not posting anything since November but, truth be told, I really haven't accomplished much since then either!  I have been "lurking" on other sites though and it seems to me that many of us seem to have had a bit of a "slump".  Maybe we were just so tired and bored of being cooped up with all the restrictions we've been under, causing us to enter a feedback loop where, since we couldn't do much, we didn't feel like doing much.

I'm glad to see that we're starting to come around again with more people back at their blogs.

I have continued to meet via Skype on Wednesday afternoons with my mini friends Marijke and Louise but it didn't seem like I was accomplishing much.  However, even though it is still only February, I'm beginning to feel like spring is not that far off and that has gotten me motivated again.

Reading Jodi Hippler's latest post I chuckled when she mentioned in an answer to a comment left on her blog, that she always starts off at at great pace but then starts to taper off as she nears the end and it gets harder to finish up all the little details when she what she really wants is to start a new project.  I'm just like that!  Okay - confess now - how many of you are too?

Well, I do want to get on to another project so, now that I am finally back at it again, I am determined to put a push on the North Pole Postal Service so I can then start something new.  

I have accomplished a few little things this last couple of weeks.  I made a lot of letters for the post office, and, thanks to Louise providing me with a sheet of iron-on stencil paper, I also made some mail bags to hold these letters.  Of course, the bags will be filled mostly with a wad of filler with letters mostly on top but hey - it's a start!

I also got started on putting together a few elves to get me started.  I will be using 4 elves and one human in this particular scene.  This will be my first attempt at making people for my scenes, although these will be made from kits I just have to put together and dress.  In the future, I would like to give a try to make my own figures.  I have a book from famous dollmaker Jamie Carrington as well as a wonderful book on dressing and wigging dollhouse dolls.  It looks like it would be fun to do although I recognize it will be a big learning curve but hey - - I'm not going anywhere!

Two of the dolls I have have articulated heads while the other two are fixed.  I have no idea where the articulated ones came from because I bought them second-hand but if anyone has any idea where I could get kits like these I would greatly appreciate it!  I like them much better than the fixed head ones.

Today I added numbers to the mailbox slots, glued in some of the numerous envelopes I had made, and then glued the mail cabinet into its corner.

This week I hope to get the back door installed, maybe build a small sorting table, add shelves in the back room to hold parcels, and possibly add some additional lighting as I think the back room may end up a little darker than I have in mind.

Please send encouraging vibes my way so my renewed interest and energy doesn't drop like a stone again!  And I will send them right back to all of you so perhaps we can all re-energize each other again.  We need to keep the blog postings coming!  Until next week - Big hugs!  TTFN! - Marilyn