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I haven't had time to work on the wash house this week. Amend that - I scraped off the egg carton bricks I'd glued onto it. I didn't like the way it was shaping up. Although the bricks were in scale with real size bricks, in place, they looked all wrong. I decided that I needed to cut them a bit bigger, and maybe use something smoother, like card stock. Another option is to score them into the plaster. Since I'm going for a look that's plaster over brick, I'm leaning towards trying the larger, card stock bricks.

I wanted to share this link to Rigid Wrap Plaster Cloth Techniques . It may give you some more ideas how you might want to use the stuff.

I've been doing some work on the New England Miniatures store site.
I added picture links to sections on the Room by Room page. Are pictures better, or should I leave it as text the way it was? Any input would be appreciated, so I made a poll. It's right there on the right. I try to make New England Miniatures as customer friendly as I can....PS - poll now closed, results show preference for picture links, ok then.

I've also been tagging items as Victorian or Colonial to make it easier for people who are looking for items specifically to those time periods. Use the search box feature on New England Miniatures. It's coming along slowly. As I make adjustment to each miniature, I also have to write things on pages for little Google robots who scurry around the world wide web seeking information. Working on the website can be very time consuming.

I bet you didn't know that the fly swatter was invented in 1905.