A Little Bit of That....
I Hope You can imagine, Dear Readers, that after three weeks of running around like a Madwoman, turning my house upside down and inside out with scenes and settings and building "stage sets" in every possible available spot and then trying to put everything that was taken out and used back where it belongs....I sort of lose track of what I was doing before the Madness set in! I rely on my photos to remind me of what I was doing and slowly try to get back on track. And yes, I had been making some good progress on the Tree House Nursery and Nanny's Room. I had been working on the bunkbeds and had decided that the window openings needed to be smaller, with a more enclosing and protective feeling to the spaces, so I added a higher wall on both levels.
And this is what it now looks like from the inside... yeah,
it is dark and hard to see! But trust me,
the window spaces are smaller!
And they may get smaller still.... we shall see as things develop.
Here is another view of the bunkbeds interior....
the upper one is longer and the bottom one is shorter
due to the curvature of the branch opening
(these are built into the stub of the cut-off tree limb).
I was intent on getting the beds "made up"
with mattresses and bedding
before finishing the windows on the outside.
And Some of you might recall that many years ago
I made a lovely mattress for the bed in the Chinoiserie Bedroom...
well, I still have a few scraps of that "mattress ticking" cloth!
I have always thought this looked like
the old fashioned "mattress ticking"
that all mattresses used to be made of,
and have used it for many of the beds in my mini houses.
So I set about making the little mattresses for the bunk beds...
Here is the first one stitched but not turned or stuffed.....
And again with the stuffing complete!
And testing it for fit in the bunkbed! Looks good so far!
But, I wanted my mattresses to be "tufted" too....
Like so!
I know.... you have to look very closely
to even see the tufting! But it is there!
And here is the second one stitched, stuffed and tufted too!
Yes, I know it is "too big" for the bunkbed platform....
but I think that is part of the charm...
the little ratlings would have a cozy curvy mattress to roll around on!
(I think it is probable that the youngest ones were on the bottom bunk
and didn't need as much room as the older ones!)
And while I was working on the beds,
I thought the Nanny's Bed could use a coat of stain...
I used one of those "stain pens" I had bought recently
and it worked wonderfully! No drips, splatters or spills!
It is the Dark Walnut color that was popular in Victorian times.
And I suppose it was inevitable, Dear Readers,
that while I was moving everything around and turning things upside down,
I would happen to notice a not-quite completed step
on one of my many other tiny incomplete projects....
Because really, it is the spooky season...
and I would really have hated losing
these tiny pieces before I had attached them!!!
Yes, they are window frames for the interior of the Ravenwood.....
and you might recall I had added extra windows to the attic rooms...
so there were no frames for them in the kit...
I had to improvise my own....
And you can see they have been painted here...
And here they have been installed on the left side wing....
(and you can see the still incomplete fireplaces also need to be attached....)
Here you can see a close-up of the attic room...
I also added a knee wall to the room below the window
to make the furnishings fit better.
And the window frames for the right side wing....
Yes, I was reminded of how much fun awaits me in this tiny house.......
and the other day as I was out in my garden
I was tempted to try out the landscaping ideas....
It was just too tempting...!
I have been having trouble deciding how to make
a "landscape" for this Property...
and the real world was throwing me some hints...
Lady Theodora is very taken with this Property!
(Lady Virginia is not so sure....)
Well, Dear Readers, I hope you will not mind
me leaving you here...
Nothing is finished.... and Not much was Done...
But I managed to have fun with
A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That!
