Let the snow fly!!!
In the dollhouse world at least!!! About two or three nights ago I started with the walls on the McKinley. I was so excited!!! I glued and giggled and was just happy as a clam!!! I taped and clamped and I went to bed!!!
Yesterday morning I removed the tape and took a gander at the house!!! Oh yeah, it was looking good! I was giddy!!!
Yesterday evening I got home and as soon as my real life responsibilities were complete (laundry, food, those types of things) I settled into the dollhouse work!
First up was the porch....it took some time but the steps I needed to finish were completed. Woohoo!!! I have porch steps, and a porch floor and a back railing!!!! Next up...tower walls....obnoxious! So obnoxious! There may have been a few moments where I said 'never again will I buy a kit with towers!!! It was just awkward. And well...gluey!!!! My fingers were covered in glue!!! I taped and clamped and glued that tower into submission!!! (I have a bay window in the kitchen yet to do!! Grrrr)
Seriously...I find it hard to believe that everyone else can be so neat while constructing their dollhouses!
I soooo wanted to keep working but that tower REALLY needed to dry!!!! I compromised and pulled out all the pieces for the next step of the McKinley...and read the instructions well. But that was it...off to bed I went....praying I wouldn't hear any tower pieces falling in the middle of the night! (Hahaha. Ok I wasn't really afraid of that because it was glued and then clamped/taped well! I was more nervous about the removal of the clamping system!!!)
This is my Saturday to work so I was up early. And I jumped out of bed! I wanted to check the structural soundness if the tower! Tape and clamping removed and it was solid!!!!! I danced a wee little jig and then headed off to the shower, grinning the whole time!
I rushed around all morning to get ready so that I would have a few moments spare before leaving for work. Why??? Remember I had pulled out all of the pieces for the next step on the McKinley? Well I had looked at them and studied the directions and I knew how they fit. I was confident that the next step would be fairly simple. If I had enough time I could conceivably roll through at least part of the next step!
I had the time! So on went the roof! All of it!!!Glued and taped and drying while I am at work!!!
Let the snow fly...my dollhouse family (if I had one) will be safe and dry!!!! Ok....so I still have a door to install....and the bay window in the kitchen is still a great big gaping hole....and well the tower has no roof yet....but for the most part my house is under cover and out of the winter elements!!!
