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Sunday, July 24, 2011

 
Brimble's Mercantile Week 8 - Shingles, Flower Boxes, & Cakes


I shingled three sides of the roof, and added window boxes to the front and back windows. I bought the window boxes to hide the excess superglue that I dripped on the windows and could not remove. I think they work swimmingly.

Devon made the "Groppe Bakery" sign using Word and Excel, and both girls made some fantastic cakes out of Crayola Model Magic clay. Almost finished!


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Sunday, July 17, 2011

 
Brimble's Mercantile Week 7 - Roof


I will not describe the horror that was constructing the Brimble's Mercantile roof. I will only say that it is over now, and the roof is assembled.

We made curtains out of lace trim, and put up the Alice's Adventures under Ground pictures that I made before. We also made some pies using bottle caps, glue, and tissue paper. I found the instructions for the pies here. Thanks, Dollhouse Decorating!


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Saturday, July 16, 2011

 
Back in Print!


I will briefly interrupt our Brimble's Mercantile construction saga to report that my Abstract Nouns alphabet is now in print! Poster size = 24" x 36", printed on 100# paper. Click here to order!

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Saturday, July 09, 2011

 
Brimble's Mercantile Week 6 - Doors & Trim


We added the doors, trim, and windows this week, and I patched the holes in the wallpaper (ahem). Megan also made some signs for the front store windows. She created them in Word, and I used our copier to shrink them down to 30% size. It's starting to look like a bakery!


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Saturday, July 02, 2011

 
Brimble's Mercantile Week 5 - Dormers



I thought the roof was next, but apparently the dormers come first. The dormers fit together nicely. Unforutnately I now realize that all of the slots in the wallpaper that I carefully cut out with an exacta knife should not have been cut at all. For now I have unsightly holes in the wallpaper which I should probably patch with extra wallpaper.














However, a more interesting solution is to cover them with pictures:















I bought miniature frames and xeroxed Lewis Caroll's original illustrations from Alice's Adventures under Ground. I thought the pictures were perfect for the setting and the predicament.



Up next: exterior trim!

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