Hang The Curtains!

And Paint the Birds.....

Oh Those Pesky Details!
You will Laugh, Dear Readers, when I tell you that I wanted the curtains to hang on a curtain rod with rings... so you could slide them open and closed if you wanted to! So I set about making some tiny "rings" from brass jewelry wire... and stitching them to the top of the very fragile net lace curtains! It was not easy!

Can you even see them here???

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(Or even better right click on them and open in a new tab for huge close-ups!)

And then I strung them on a small wire rod....

Which I bent so it would arch over the window....

And then I carefully located the holes 

where the nails would go to attach the rod....

And a wire "hook" in the middle to hold the top in place.

I used my awl to create the holes...

And pushed the tiny nails in with the blunt end of my pliers!

(Nothing else was small enough to reach in there!)

It was really Really Not easy to do!

But, believe it or not they work!!!

Can you see that Magnificent Curtain Rod???

And with the windows in place......

And if you opened the windows.... 

could you feel the breeze blowing through???

Oh, I am so happy with the way they are hung!

And lest you think I had forgotten about the birds, Dear Readers,

here you can see I have started to paint them....

Beginning with the pigeons 

because they are larger and therefore easier.

And as I am sure you are aware, 

pigeons are not all colored alike....

So I tried to vary them a little without going to extremes.

Here, would you like to meet Perry Pigeon?

And Pauline Pigeon....

(She is a little shy)

Yes, I think painting them was a good idea!

But what about the sparrows, I hear you ask?

Alas, they are not so easy.... 

they are so much smaller and their Details are more delicate....

But I made a start!

Here, would you like to meet little Sandy Sparrow???

I almost think he is the cutest thing imaginable!

But then I added the tiniest doll to the Bed Alcove.....

Just to see how it would look with a doll.....

 (She is made of wire with a bead for her head...

I bought her at the Sturbridge Fair....

But, I am sorry I don't recall which vendor made her!)

She is only 1/4 inch tall!!

And while she might not end up living in the Tree House....

She looks so sweet sitting there in the Bed Alcove!

There are still So Many tiny details 

to add to this Bed Alcove, Dear Readers,

but I do hope you will agree with me 

that it was a very good idea to 

Hang the curtains and Paint the Birds!