{Belated} Craftiness

Treskie takes a moment to make herself a nice pot of tea, grab the Snickers bar that her little sister thoughtfully bought for her after their dentist appointment and proceeds to sit down in her comfy armchair. 

Ahhhhh. Contentment. 

She opens her computer, goes on to the internet, and clicks New Post.

She remembers that she promised to put up the pictures of the cardboard box dollhouse she made, so decides that this post will be on that. 

Hallo.

So yes, here are the promised pictures. Just as a disclaimer: Cardboard box dollhouses are really hard to make. Well, they're not really hard, just quite time consuming and as such, I don't make them often.

You start off with an apple box, complete with lid.

Depending on the kind of box it is, you may need to design your house around it. See all the holes and cracks in it? The ones on the sides I made bigger into windows, and since the house is three stories high, I hid the long, tall crack with a "wall". 

 I forgot to take pictures during the process, so you have the beginning pictures and then by the time I remembered to click a few more, you have the final pictures. Heh. 

Get the lid of the apple box....... and cut out the sides so they can be glued into the main box as floors. (I used a steak knife, (so professional right?) but if you have something better, I'd go with that. =)

Then I used Elmer's School Glue to glue them into my house:

It may take a while to dry because you should use a lot of glue to make the floors steady. When it was finished drying, I re-enforced it with good ol' hot glue gun. 

Fast forward to finished product. 

Okay! The final result looked like this:

Top floor........

IT'S A PIANO, PEOPLE! 

Middle floor........... See the wall where the big long crack used to be? Aren't I clever? Mwahahah!

The dresser is made from match boxes like these, so the drawers really open!

That flimsy, filmy, gift wrapping paper is awesome for dollhouse wallpaper. Just sayin'. 

And the bottom floor. That fireplace? I LOVE that fireplace. It turned out beautifully. =)

And there you have it! I did make most the furniture in the house, so if you have any questions about how to make something, I'll do a tutorial for it and show you how. Most of it is dead easy, if a little boring. =) Really thick material is awesome for carpets and rugs. 

This took me about two weeks to finish, so it's kind of a big undertaking. :) But hey ho, the results are worth it, and my little sisters adored me for ages. 

God bless!

Treskie

One Year Ago Yesterday and Today: April 28th and 29th

Exactly one year ago yesterday....

     I was standing in Mary Queen of Scots' bedroom. In the Palace of Holyrood House. In Scotland.

     Again, there was the whole issue with "THIS STUFF IS OLD, FOLKS! IF YOU TAKE PICTURES, WE WILL ESCORT YOU OUTSIDE AND KILL YOU!!!" Okay, they weren't that radical, but they got the message through. =) So we couldn't take pictures. Which means we didn't get any of the inside of the Palace. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaa!!! :'( This was a big thing in most of the really cool places. Sniff. We took a lot of pictures of the outside. X-)

 I could get used to a view like this. Yep. I'm used to it. Guys, I wanna palace!

  Ain't it purty? :)










 Holyrood Palace is still in use: The Queen stays there when she visits Scotland. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.
Eeep! This is the gate that only she is allowed to use.

                                        I have gate envy.

     Holyrood Abbey is in ruins. It used to be a Catholic church. And it still has insane amounts of majesty. I wish I could have seen in before it was destroyed. :-/

Shhhhhhhhhhh. We are being statues.

     RANDOM FACT: When I'm rich and famous, I want to have a backyard just like the Palace Gardens. They were the most impressive gardens ever. Flowers everywhere....thick, thick grass which smelled fantastic....bushes and trees which grew in a way that they made special, scecret looking little alcoves that seemed to be the perfect spot to read a book. I repeat: I want a garden like that. You get me one, I love you for life. (and even after... :)

This is where I wanted to read a book. It looks so peaceful! :)

See Holyrood Abbey in the back?













     When we were done there, we started home to the flat. (It was perfectly, centrally located, we could walk to almost anywhere in Edinburgh. Ish.) We stopped at Clarinda's Tea Shop for tea and scones...

     And later that evening, our friend, Jim, picked us up and we went out to dinner. :)


Exactly on year ago today: April 29th






Two words: Stirling Castle.







     I preferred Stirling Castle to Edinburgh Castle...it was more compact and built for battle. Yeah. Totally my kind of castle. :) Unfortunately, somewhere between being transferred to the laptop which my sister had brought and flying home, all the really good pictures got lost. They vanished. And I was sad. I am still sad. It was sad. But since Stirling was small, it didn't take long to look through.

     We explored the dungeons... I'm glad I never got imprisoned in a castle. Their dungeons are cold. But I had some serious love for the awesome lock.

 



 We had a look at the weavers:

Each of these tapestries were enormous. There were actually six different ones....and they all had to be done by hand. Each tapestry took two years to finish. All in all, it was a twelve year project.

I. Do. Not. Have. That. Much. Patience. **shakes head.**

They had scary waxworks in the castle kitchens:








Surreal...........................











We looked through the gift shop... And you know those coin machines, where you put the penny in and it squishes it into a long thin thingy with a different picture on it? Those were everywhere in Scotland. We sort of got addicted to them. If there was one: We used it. :)

   We went out to the battlements and viewed the view.....

That big tall tower on the hill? That's the Wallace Monument. I'll get to that in later posts. ;)

MORE CANOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNS!

   We got ice cream cones with chocolate sticks in them and got some really, really good pictures.... But the pictures...vanished. And I am sad. :-(

    We went to a town called Luss, which Jim, described as a "doll house" town. I found that description most appropriate.

Cute, yeah?

                                    We took a walk: 

And then! We went to the CELTIC STADIUM!!!! The Celtics are a Catholic football (aka soccer) team. IT was cool. 

We got a group picture in front of it. But we lost it. lol.... This day was one of my favorites while we were in Scotland. It was so fun. I was not a good sport about losing so many pictures. It was really depressing. 

RANDOM FACT: In general, I prefer the looks of British guys over American guys. I like the British look. There were a lot of REALLY HOT guys in Scotland. I had fun sightseeing. LOL :) 

God bless. Until tomorrow!