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Finally did some work


Tako

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Finding time between school and everything else in my life to actually work on my poor neglected Buttercup is just getting harder as end of semester stress piles on, and I have to start wondering (read as stressing!) about all the finer details of moving entirely across the country. I don't even know if I've gotten in to the University I'm trying to transfer to or not, and won't until May!

I've also had to face that I absolutely cannot spend anything on the cottage until after I find a job (which seems to be impossible ;) ) and until after I'm certain I have enough put aside for the move. I have a $20 bill in my wallet right now and that's pretty much my spending money until I find a job, which could be quite a while.

Not being able to spend got me to be a bit creative when working on the bay window. I have the pieces primed and sanded and hanging out on my desk for a couple of weeks now, and I've been trying to figure out what color I was going to paint the window seat cabinet pieces (I ended up going with a dark chocolate brown). I decided to pin hinge the doors on the window seat the cottage inhabitant could have some extra storage. I needed handles on the doors though, so I could open them and decided that I wanted large round knobs rather than messing with anything else. I didn't have any small wooden spheres, but I did have wooden beads. What, however, to do about the holes? Stuff them with wooden toothpicks of course. They acted as nice handles while I was painting too. Snipped one side close, painted, and then snipped the other side close and wood glued them to the doors. Also, I don't have enough flat headed sewing pins to go hiding them all away in my doors, so I used jewelry head pins and it turned out really well. I even managed to not stab myself while making the holes to set them in :)

Now the bay window is all glued together and taped to dry, all except for the piece with the doors in it. I'll probably glue that on, and glue it in to the house tomorrow (or not, I always say I'll do something on Sunday, and never do...).

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