I undid all the taping on my bay window after I got home from classes today and took a picture. I'm going to need to touch things up a bit in places, but I don't think it looks, too bad, does it?
I'm going to have to paint the interior of the cabinet at some point too, because it just looks bad for it to be unfinished in there, even if it is just where the occupant will probably keep her potatoes and turnips
Anyway here's a picture!
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I always end up never doing much work on Sundays, except possibly some grocery shopping, and never for any religious reasons (as people always tend to assume!). I go to classes full time Monday through Thursday, work on school work and commission work Friday and Saturday, and so Sunday is my day to rest and not do anything.
However, today I actually did what I said I was going to! I glued the cabinet door front on the window seat of the bay window, and glued the window section ont
Finding time between school and everything else in my life to actually work on my poor neglected Buttercup is just getting harder as end of semester stress piles on, and I have to start wondering (read as stressing!) about all the finer details of moving entirely across the country. I don't even know if I've gotten in to the University I'm trying to transfer to or not, and won't until May!
I've also had to face that I absolutely cannot spend anything on the cottage until after I fi
I glued the front of the house on the other day, but haven't done any more work on it. I've been under the weather with my health issues plus what I suspect might be a flu bug. However, I did get around to taking some pictures of the things that have gone wrong, how I've mended them, and of the house in general, and they're all hanging out in my Buttercup Build Gallery!
Sooo, even with all my care yesterday because of my previous mistakes, I still made more of them. Not too terribly huge, but tabs ended up in the wrong places. I ended up with slots that had no tabs to fill them and tabs that had no slots to fit into. House fit together just fine, but now I have tabs to whittle and sand off and slots to fill and sand. I could have fixed it, but I was NOT taking the blasted thing apart for a second time, and gluing it together for a third.
So muc
So, I was super excited yesterday to have my main structure glued together and drying. Completely ecstatic in fact. With the same amount of enthusiasm I got ready to assemble the front of the house today. I turned the house right side up set it on it base and was please to find that, other than it rocking a touch on its base (something easily fixed by dampening and weighting the wood while it dries to undo the warping of the floor piece) that it seemed to be sturdily holding together.
No pictures yet, it's not -that- much progress, but at least it's no longer just sheets of primed and sanded wood lying about!
I went up to the Sonoma Coast to Bodega Bay and Jenner yesterday, it would have been a lot more fun if weather.com hadn't lied about the weather and if it hadn't involved so much time crammed in the back seat of a car. Bad knees, bad hips and a bad back + cramped back seat = bad news. Also, it was early enough in the season that none of the access stairs
...or at least decisions were made.
So, I decided to put a stone chimney/fireplace up the center of the right wall (the right wall if you're looking at the open back.) Today I sanded the pieces that popped out of the windows for the right side down a little, put glue around the edges, and pounded them back into their holes with the heel of my hand. Gessoed them and sanded them. They match up as solid walls well enough now to be egg-carton stoned over, and a chimney will be built
As a lot of you probably know, I just got my first mini kit and am beyond excited to be starting my Buttercup cottage. I'm doing it in a fairytale and very slightly Tudor-esque style.
Spent almost five hours priming and sanding the cottage walls and and floors on Friday. I got a little bit of a sunburn (first doll house injury!?) because I took advantage of the nice weather and watched birds wile waiting for layers of gesso to dry. Yup, you heard me, gesso. The stuff us crazy artist
