Details!

Glorious Details!

By Now, Dear Readers, you must know how much I Adore the tiniest Details! They seem to make such a Huge difference and yet they are sometimes so small as to go unnoticed unless they are pointed out.... and I am Very willing to point them out! This week I have added a few small but significant ones, as well as a much larger and very Obvious Table to the Tree House Library. This is Not the desk I have promised you.... and I know some of you will think I am Insane to be planning a desk Too.....! Where will it go? Rest assured... I have a plan! But first I made the Table because it was easier! I neglected to take pictures of its construction because most of it was very ordinary. I found some very fine stair spindles for 1/12 scale stairs and cut them down to use the tiny turned portion for legs. Here below you can see the table prior to staining.

The only really tricky part was the "X" shaped stretchers I wanted for the base.... 

I carved them from a single piece of basswood....... 

here below you can see my rather crude results.....

Thank heavens that once it is stained the carving looks a lot neater!

Here you can see it being tested for fit in the Library.....

Yeah, it is Big..... 

but it needs to hold a lot of Interesting Things yet to be made.....

So I think it will do!

Meanwhile I added some of those infinitesimal details to the Fire....

You thought it was good enough as it was...?

Well, I added some logs... 

carved and painted to look partly burnt....

I know they are hard to see....

And if you look REALLY closely you will see I added a couple, 

well maybe five, pieces of red glitter to the burning coals at the front of the logs.....

Can you see them?

And I glued the Dragon andirons in place.....

And when it is in the Library with the fire lit......

Can you see those glowing coals?

I Wish they weren't so difficult to Photograph!

But that is not all I managed to do this week.....

I added the wallpaper and trim to the remaining window by the chimney....

Of course, it is really hard to see unless I lift off the ceiling.....

Here you can see the view looking down from above....

I made the window and shutters last week... 

and the shutters are Hinged to open and close...!

(I LOVE Hinges!)

And there is yet Another tiny detail I have added this week.....

The Rose chair was lacking the cloth on the outside.....

And I confess it was Much trickier to make than the first parts! 

It needed to be all one piece of fabric and it needed to fit very exactly.....

So I made a paper pattern....

 

 

And then I traced the shape onto the inside of the cloth.....

and smeared quick dry glue on the inside 

covering the edges of where the fabric would be cut...

And let it dry thoroughly...

This made a sort of rubbery edge where the pattern would be cut....

Which allowed me to make very precise cuts and fit it carefully with No fraying of the edges!

This shows the right side of the fabric cut to fit the chair........

But before gluing the fabric on I added another one of those Glorious details.... 

I wanted Piping on the chair seams.....

So I am gluing a strand of Pearled Cotton Twist (Antique DMC) 

to the side of the arm... you can see it in the picture above...

And then I Carefully glued one side at a time.... 

allowing the glue that squeezed out at the edge of the fabric 

(which I intended and very carefully squeezed...) 

be the glue that stuck the cording on.....

You can see it in process above......

And this is the other side.....

And the view from the front.....

I still need to do this for the Front of the arms......

But for now you can see it in place in the Library......

Some of the books have found their way onto the table.....

And you can also see the "fender" in front of the fire.... 

made from a piece of ornamental metal trim...

Here, come a little closer......

See those coals glowing...?

I don't know about you......

But I just LOVE all those Tiny Glorious Details!!!!