Bits from the "Thirst Parlor"

Thirst Parlor was a name actually used for a saloon/bar of the 1800's. I think it's a wonderfully euphemistic term.
Here is a picture of the main bar:

Here is the pool table I made which sits in the room over the bar:

The Grocery Store

It hasn't been built yet but I'm working on produce and such for it. Here is a filled shelving unit.

Bits for the "yard" of Merebrick/Port Brown

There will be a small "yard" between Merebrick & Port Brown.
Here is an outhouse I built and picture of some of the animals that will be there:

Some work on Ariel

Ariel is name of my 3rd larger house. I had one that didn't fit in our van and didn't make the move. We set it out back in the alley and it disappeared in 30 minutes according to my neighbor. It was fronted and built and had only a few windows in it. It was called Sapiens then and here is a picture of it before I did much more to it.

I like to say that a tornado swept through Facetious and took the house but saved the furnishings. The Solomon family is living in the hotel (unbuilt and likely never to be for lack of space) until their new home "Ariel" is built which I am working on.

I put a partition in between the kitchen & servants hall which is (in my mind) echoing the set up in Upstairs, Downstairs.

Here is a picture of the dining room in progress. I was able to use small-scale Bradbury & Bradbury wall friezes and I am just delighted since I will never be able to use them full size in real life.

Mini-quilts

I made this mini-quilt in 1997. I hand-sewed the 1/2" squares together but put no batting in it, just a backing only. I don't know why I did it and it's been buried in a box for some years.

Then yesterday I made this little "scrappy" quilt just because I had leftover bits from my pink & brown quilt.

First Dolls

I like the pipecleaner Pat King method. This weekend I finally have dressed two of the male dolls made long, long ago when these dolls were made. I have enjoyed cutting out such tiny clothes pieces and sewing them up.

First doll was a bride, don't know why but there it is:

The second doll I made and later decided to call Cassie:

And the third doll is the housekeeper and cook of Merebrick

although now she has her own home called Port Brown (for a good reason besides the fact that it was built of brown bricks). Her home was the kitchen building of Merebrick (which is set in Pre-during-and-Post Civil War era. Port Brown was a stop on the Underground Railroad and the inhabitants of Merebrick never knew it.

Slothaven

This is the manse of the Presbyterian minister T. Asa Brick, his wife Liza B. Brick, and the last of three sons, Petrous. Despite her name, his wife is the housekeeper and Slothaven is a wondrously well kept manse. Asa, as he called, fought in the Civil War on the Union side while his brother, for reasons of his own, fought on the Confederate side. They have no differences now and all the Bricks get along famously. Asa and Liza’s oldest son is Solled who is married to Dimasa Trifle and are off producing numerous little Bricks. Asa and Liza’s second son dies in the Spanish /American War. Their third son is Petrous (detail below).
There has been some recent redecoration. The front hallway has new pictures hung in it along the line of Asa’s. favorite period, the Middle Ages. There are indications of this interest of his throughout the house. The house itself is in the Gothic revival style.
The dining room is papered a busy but beautiful paper. This is where the Women’s Auxiliary meet.
The blue parlor is a gracious and large room. The organ is also in here for this is where family services are held when for some reason the church cannot be opened or gotten to. Not a few weddings have been held here.
The Rev.’s study is above the dining room and is his sanctum sanctorum. It is decorated in as medieval a style as he can manage. He spends many an hour in there daydreaming (more than he ought) when he should be working on his sermons.
Above the study is the bedroom of their last son at home, Petrous. He is a great reader which his parents approve of and his current interest and passion is for the novels of Burroughs, these can be seen littering his bedroom. He resembles his father in that he spends perhaps more time daydreaming than he “ought to”.
Next to Petrous’ bedroom is his parent’s bedroom which is a comfortable bower.
Above their bedroom is an attic room belonging to the maid.
Rooms behind the main section of the house that can’t be seen are the back hall and stairs, the cook’s room, a pantry, a bathroom and various closets.

Near the manse is (will be someday) the graveyard for Facetious, the Presbyterian graveyard at any rate, and there can be seen the headstones of some of the dear departed souls of the town including their own son, Sturdivant. The Bricks covered both sides during the war with the Rev. brother (Major Justa) fighting on the Confederate side and Asa fighting for the Union. War seems to haunt the family with a second son who died in the Spanish/American War.