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By AIM Member Linda Master

I had always dreamed of making a 1:12 scale

flower shop and my original plan was to build it from
scratch. I drew up my plans and began to
concentrate on the inside, filling it would be such
fun! I figured in this case, it would be smarter to
create all the ideas that popped into my head and
then build the rooms to house it all.

Then one day all that changed, a friend came to visit
and he had a surprise for me! He had found a little
Arthur dollhouse on the side of the road (in the
trash, would you believe it?). How I dearly regret not
taking a photograph of the state it was in for the
“before” shot. This little Arthur house was all but
destroyed. It had so much hot‐melt glue all over it, was never painted or finished outside and most of the shingles
and trims were gone amongst other things.

I tried to salvage as much of the original house as possible, remaking the missing trim etc. and luckily I was able to
salvage the original porch. I knew that this battered and bruised little house would become my own little flower
shop!