Glue

A Sticky Business....

I hope you will be glad to learn, Dear Readers, that I have finally taken my courage into my hands and GLUED the Tree House Bathroom floor in place! Believe me, it took quite a bit of Courage!!! So much work has gone into the details and parts attached to it... and I Really needed to be certain that I would not want to lift it off again to perform some trifling but necessary task that I had not yet Thought about! I finally convinced myself that if I realized later that I should have done one more thing first... I would probably be able to figure out a way to do it with the Floor glued down!

So I Glued it Down!!!

And once that was done... 

it was time to attach the spiral stairs that go up to the next level....

You can sort of see them here twisting their way up in the little turret at the back.... 

I need to make more stairs...

And then I needed to glue all those walls in place.....

But first I added a couple more pearls and shells to the doors....

Sorry I forgot to take pictures after I added the shells.... 

but you can see the extra pearls at the bottom of each door....

I started with the Fireplace wall....

And the Door into the Spiral Staircase....

 

Then I added the wall dividing the Bath from the Dressing Room and Toilet....

 But only after I had extended the Sea Horses painting onto the Exterior door...

 

 And once those Walls were all glued into their proper slots..... 

it was Time to glue down all the plumbing fixtures!

I started with the Toilet....

I made a water tank for it.... 

with a copper pipe and a pull chain!

And you Might be wondering why you can't see the Tiny roll of Toilet paper....

I am afraid I will have to re-position it.... 

the Glue did not hold!

I have decided it needs to be inside the room 

rather than on the external door where it is too easy to knock it off!

Which brings me to the Subject of this Post.... Glue! 

I have been wrestling with which glues to use for which type of fastening!

Here I am attaching wood to wood.... metal to wood... shell to wood... shell to tiles... pearls to shells.... pearls to wood... metal to beads... metal to tiles... glass tiles to wood.... etc!!!

And the Trickiest part so far has been the "plumbing pipes" for the beautiful Swan Bath!

I wanted the copper pipes to arch over the bath and have "taps"....

Here you can see the piece roughly propped in place.....

it is heavy so it tips over easily.... 

so the only thing holding it together.... 

and to the floor... is the Glue!!!

I wish I had faith in the longevity and durability of the glue!!!

Really... this whole project is so reliant on the power of glue to hold things together....

I hope it lasts Forever!!!

I finally decided that the pipes needed a third attachment point.... 

so they could be held up by the wall....

So I glued an extension to the back.... 

and in the process several of the other glue joins came undone!

(I was using Super Glue alone to connect the pipes)

I decided to add a layer of Aileens Tacky Glue to the already glued joins....

in the hopes that it would strengthen them....

Then I used a combo of Super Glue and Tacky Glue to attach it to the floor and wall!

Of course, it is Really difficult to photograph these details!

And is there anything more Boring than Looking at Glue Drying???

So I really have hardly anything else to show you this week....

 But almost everything is now Glued Down!!!

The Bath is the only piece still not glued in place.....

But I wanted to wait until the Ceiling is finished.....

And you can rest assured Dear Readers... 

it requires a Lot of Gluing!

And Interesting parts I haven't yet figured out....

This Gluing things is a Tricky Sticky business!