My latest project is a little flower shop. During a recent visit to a charity shop I found a little box shaped like a house, the front opens outward to reveal two little rooms inside. It only cost 50p and I was going to furnish it in the usual way with a living room downstairs and a bedroom upstairs but the front of it is nicely painted with two little topiary trees, so I decided to make a little shop downstairs and a living area over it. I painted the inside soon after I got it home, and last night I built some little fixtures and fittings. I made a shelf unit which covers the whole of the side wall, a counter, a small shelf for the wall behind the counter, and a door on the back wall (to access an imaginary staircase leading to the living area). I'm pleased with the way it looks even thought it's still very bare - there's still a lot to do, I need vases and flowers, seed packets, ribbons, wrapping paper, paper bags, etc, etc, etc. - oh, and a little cash register, of course! Then there's the upstairs to do!
Meanwhile, back at the 24th scale house, I now have a bed! Hooray! I wasn't too impressed with the bedding so I decided to make my own. I wanted to try to make a patchwork quilt, so I gave it a go, but I'd never done any patchwork before and it took three attempts to get it right. The first one was totally wrong, I had no idea how to do it and completely bodged it! I persevered and had a look online and found out how it should be done, so I started patchwork number two - which was much better but I wasn'thappy with it because I made it far too small, I wanted a cosy, snuggly looking quilt with plenty of drop at the sides, so I started again. Patchwork number three was a success, thankfully - it took six hours to make but it turned out well and I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. I even made two little matching pillows.
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