Window Panes....

Painstaking Progress....

Windows were the big topic in my Worlds both Large and small, Dear Readers, as I faced the truth of Autumn's arrival in this part of the World. The day had come that I must bring my houseplants back indoors for the Winter, thus requiring me to rearrange all my Dollhouses to allow the plants to live in the sunny Windows! Alas, this means that the Conservatory has been shifted onto a chair in the corner of my Sitting room....

 And the Cloud Palace has Drifted up into the higher elevations 

of my tiny upstairs Studio!

 So that the plants can live in the sunny... (or dark) Windows!

It always makes me keenly aware of the Seasonal change...

 the oncoming Dark and cold.....

The closing of the windows.

The closing in of the year.

And with all that shuffling and rearranging.... 

the even more difficult truth that several of my projects 

were Larger than they were this time last year!

This is the natural result of trying to complete the foundations and bases....

which makes them a little bit larger 

and much harder to move and fit into corners.... 

here in my (too) small house....!

So while I was lamenting the necessity of moving the 

dollhouses away from the sunny windows,

 and struggling with where they should sit....

I was also slowly adding muntins to the windows of the Glass House....

One piece at a time.

Here you can see the beginnings.

I started with the cross pieces and then added the vertical muntins.

And on the door too.

Slowly measuring, cutting, sanding to fit, then gluing in place.

One piece at a time.

 

And you might have noticed, Dear Readers, that 

The Gypsy Caravan also got a set of front doors.....

Which needed to have windows cut into the upper half of each door.

These kits don't come with the doors, 

so I have cut them from plywood.....

Stained them the dark walnut color...

And attached them with hinges.....

(Can you believe how many hinges it uses????)

 

I really do Love these hinges! 

They are a bit large... 

but they are sturdy and will put up with a lot of use!

They will eventually look better..... 

aged and partly concealed by paint and trim.

(And the ends of the screws where they stick through 

the wood will be covered with more trim.)

But I do love my doors to open and close!

And the front doors really did need to have windows!

Now I only need to decide if I am making them with real glass...

So you can see, Dear Readers, 

my Painstaking Progress...

Making little Window panes!