Dh, "Kit-Bashing" and Tuts

Well -

I have officially joined those crazy people who demand to be taken seriously and called "miniaturists"...I joined a dollhouse forum (not Joss Whedon's show), Greenleaf Miniatures, because I am thinking of building my own dollhouse (I have one but it's in Greenville and I'm going to borrow my sister's but I would LOVE to have a house that I could say I built, along with making everything to go in it!) and I wanted to ask those who had been making them for years.

I love that every time I get really interested in a new topic, I get to learn new vocabulary!

So, if you want to learn something new today, here are 2 abbreviations and 1 new "word" that I've learned:

dh is short for dollhouse (duh but it took me a minute to realize what they were saying)

tut is short for tutorial (they post ALL SORTS of fascinating tutorials about how to make everything from roofs to flooring to hats!)

and "kit-bashing" (this is not just for miniaturists - other hobbyists use this word as well but it was new to me) is when a miniaturist takes a dollhouse kit and modifies it to fit their own ideas.

So now I'm pricing dollhouses because I want to try to "kit-bash" my own! :)

This is fun.