I had to spackle one wall before we left & put on another coat of paint on the trim (WOW).We got home before lunch today so I spackled the front of the first floor. No, I didn't imagine this tub of spackling compound was being difficult to work with, I was using fingers nearly as much as the craft stick, and the credit card wasn't working too well. I turned the house back on the unspackled wall and glued on one of the window trims http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/\html\style_emoticons\/tongue.png' alt=':p'> Much better!For our non-US friends, spackle/ spackling compound is AKA polyfilla.I now have the trim glued on the bathroom (stainedglass) window, and as soon as the spackle's dry on the back of the house I'm going to glue on the front first floor window trims and get ready to shingle the upstairs front. I'll also glue on the front door trim & door, which I've hinged with chamois strips.To make the hinges I cut a 1 1/2" X 1/2" strip of chamois into thirds and glued a scant 1/4" of one long edge along the door edge I want to hinge. When dry, I glued the door trim to the door, over the edge of the "hinges", and clamped the bejeeziz all around. I put "doorknobs" (odd earring studs) on the in- & outside of the other side of the door, so now it's ready to hang when I glue on the trim. I hope the hinges show up in the picture I'm taking of the pre-hung (unhung?) door (see entry for "assembly").I'll have to wait until tomorrow to take more pictures, the light's gone & flash alone washes out color.The problem with the difficult spackle, I found out, is that both the lid & the tub itself had apparently become brittle & had cracked, so my spackle was drying in the tub! I wet my finger & did some repair.Complements of havanaholly