I got the San Fran in the mail and had to take several extra days to get the Willowcrest in the mail also due to just feeling too sick to work very hard on it! But it finally got packed up also (had to patch together two garment boxes to box it in), despite me continuing to find little patches that needed extra paint or an extra piece of trim, and tracking tells me that it showed up at its destination today, so that is good.

A view of the front doors:

The curtains that I made for the bedroom, one of the last things I put in this house:

I used my 1/4" plywood with quarter-round for a base again; gluing on the quarter-round with wood glue helped straighten out the base which wanted to curl up. Next time, though, I might think a little more about the base size, vis-a-vis shipping rates and how they depend on perimeter measurements...! Once I had the house glued onto the base, then I glued on vertical skinny sticks all around the house base (sort of like bead board) to give it some interest, and painted it off-black. Then I glued paperclay onto the yard, with thicker rolls along the house base, and stuck in all my shrubberies with extra glue to brace them. I glued decorative stones onto the "flower bed" part also. Then I painted over the "flower bed" part with a brown dirty wash, and painted the grass part with a grey-green blend. Then I painted glue onto the grass part and sprinkled a good coat of grass powder. I stole some mushrooms and a bird house from my last Spring Fling, as well as the turtle from the Spring Fling before that...!