A General Update

I've been working non-stop on a few different projects, but no photo-worthy progress to report on yet!

In somewhat exciting news, I was given the perfect excuse to justify starting a Beacon Hill.  A friend of mine is getting married, it seems as grand an occasion as any to build a massive house, plus I have until July 2013 to get it done so it won't be a rush like the last minute christmas fiasco.

I also had a chance to sit down and sort through the last lot of miniature supplies I picked up on a trip for balsa wood.  It's been both a boon and a source of frustration that every hobby shop in this city is going out of the minatures.  I am getting a lot of supplies for next to nothing, but I am going broke buying these amazingly cheap supplies - and places to keep them.

The boxes contained numerous houseworks windows, hundreds of light fixtures, miles of wiring, several bulb extractors and wire strippers, furniture kits, glassware, furniture components, ceiling tiles, wooden shingles, siding panels, stripwood, landscaping materials - and there are still three boxes to go through.  Thankfully, Walmart just "rolled back" their rubber storage bins.  I picked up some lovely red ones for a rather reasonable sum.  I have just enough room for another stack of two, hopefully I will be able to store everything else in 6 drawers worth of space.

Also, I found some amazing dollhouse books from the UK on Amazon.ca, 2 of which arrived this week.  I now have several more projects to attempt.  My scratch build is on hiatus, I lost my drive on that particular project - I'm not sure if it just wasn't speaking to me, or if I was in over my head making something so very complicated as my first real woodworking project in almost 12 years.  Either way I'm going to scale it back a bit, the house has moved in to the furnace room so I'm not confronted with it every time I come to my work space.

Glencroft - Day 27

I'm on to the landscaping portion of my build, this is where I'm finding it difficult to keep the pace up, There is just so much to do and I don't know what to tackle first!  The last couple of days I have been working on the fence and yard on the house.  I'm fairly certain the light on the front of the house has been thoroughly destroyed by the cat so I have to figure out how to replace that fixture with the least amount of damage.

 The paperclay shrunk an incredible amount on the paving stones, I'm not sure why but I"m fixing the issue with moss and grassmat.   The shrub is actually supposed to be an orange tree.  the raised bed will be filled in, some gravel/soil and tiny plants made for a kitchen garden.

 Overall, i just need to find the window frames for the upstairs west window, I still haven't had any luck tracking them down.  I may have to raid the second kit in the garage - but then what would I do with that one!