The hellsite is eating my posts again. We'll see what gets through.
Edit: this one made it! You've asked for a house tour, I hope this isn't boring. There's some rooms that I don't include because I'm working on stuff and don't want to show the mess. This is still not that tidy but it's... tolerable mess. The audio is just Clair de Lune, no narration. I can answer questions if you have them; I'm always happy to talk about my million hobbies and the house is...definitely one of them.
I could also do a photo post for anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole thing.
Spent another day on my piano coatrack, all of it sanding and finishing. So much sanding...
Got the main piano coatrack finished, up next will be the frame
All but four of the keys rotate, but not sure it'll usually be more than a few open at a time.
Process below:
Sanded from 80, all the way up to 400 grit for the white and black keys. Then started applying some homemade shellac. Ended up doing an amber shellac for the black keys and a blonde shellac for the white keys.
After about 6 coats of shellac, sanding with 400 grit between the last three layers, I did a few layers of my homemade beeswax finish buffing till smooth.
(jegulus this, regulus with someone that. have we considered perpetual bachelor regulus with no partner and a fancy house and all. his friends drinking fancy whiskey until 2am on a Wednesday because they can and going to work and living his best life unattached.
and having breakfast at sirius's on weekend mornings and sirius has a baby strapped to his chest and a handsome husband and reg is like "wow thats so nice for him, I'm going to buy my nephew a horse and watch sirius's head explode")
I'm very excited about finding this new furniture place but I don't actually know what my style is for interior design so I will simply google image all the styles that exist
I made a Christmas house, because of course I needed to.
It was my first time doing a tab and slot house. Tab and slot was a little harder, if only because the wood is thinner than the MDF houses I'd done previously and as such, some of the parts warped a little from the paint. Nothing too egregious, but I did have to shove some of the pieces together to make them fit.
I did not have the patience or inclination to find/purchase 1:24 siding so I tried to camouflage the tabs as much as I could. As you can see, some tabs were easier to camouflage than others.
I'm still not sure which was more fiddly: gluing the fake lights on the eaves or wrapping the wee ribbon around the wee Christmas trees to pose as garland. The stars on the trees are, no word of a lie, stickers I found at Walmart. The ornaments are those little plastic bits that are meant to go on the smaller ceramic Christmas trees for the light to shine through, just with the posts snipped off.
I'm actually impressed with myself that I got it done before Christmas! I didn't really start it until just before Thanksgiving.
ok so. As You Like It takes place in france right. and you know what else takes place in France. beauty and the beast at least the disney version. do you see where I'm going with this
i'm also going to take this opportunity to shill my ko-fi again real quick! my birthday's coming up on the 15th, and if you like the stuff i make and wanted to throw a couple of bucks in the e-tip jar, there you go!