More work on the MHV roombox

Years ago, I bought this great little teapot kit from Another World Miniatures in Saskatoon. (They're a dealer on online shows these days.) 

In two shoeboxes of beads, there was only one that fit! This is a special bead that Sunni brought me from one of her trips. I glued everything together then put the end of the stem into a piece of foam to take the picture.

 

This is where it got VERY messy. I thought I would put a bit of Gorilla gel glue in the hole of the bead to stabilize the pin. OOPS! Way too much - which was good in a weird sort of way - because there was too much for it to set on my hands immediately so I was able to separate the bead and all fingers and thumbs that had been "almost" glued together.  Fortunately, I had a bottle of acetone nail polish remover on hand and was able to clean up this mess.

I clipped off the bottom of the pin then put a clump of Gorilla Gel in the base, put it together and let it set.

Here I've put the teapot upside down in a clothespin so I can put the miniature moveable glue on the base.

HINT: Clothespins can be used to hold things in place for various reasons..

I'm really running low on Chrysnbon dishes and unfortunately the few I have left are ones that I had tried to trim with my gold Pilot pen years ago. I had tried removing that with nail polish remover and that did not work. (Hence the nail polisher remover on my table.)

So then I went to my Costco dollhouse and found the dishes and silverware that I would need for MHV.

And the china would have been right...except I had no idea what I had used to paint it......so couldn't paint a matching dessert plate.

So back to the wrong saucer...

Now I've finished the cups, saucers, and dessert plates with the Krylon gold pen:

I wet the end of a Q-tip to hole the cup in place so I could paint it.

 Now here are all the pieces done in gold...

 Those things are great.

Now I have to think about what flowers will go in there.

So it's coming together.

Will take another look tomorrow....