Since I had experience with mosaics, I decided to put field stone around the dollhouse. I glued the stones to the dollhouse using quick grip. It was fairly easy to break or cut the field stone with an X-acto knife. After the glue dried, I applied the mortar mix. The stones were very porous which caused to them to absorb much of the mortar mix. I wasn't real happy with this since the field stones lost some variety in coloring which I really liked. I found it valuable to apply the mortar mix using a children medicine dispenser. This way I avoided getting a ton of excess mortar on the surface of each field stone.
After the mortar mix was good and dry. I waited at least 2 days. I then applied a clear satin polyurethane varnish to seal the field stone and mortar. I really liked the result. I no longer had a dusty feel to the area and the field stones popped more.
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