Slow and steady

Once again, real life has left me with not as much progress as I would have liked but I'm plodding along - happy to just get something done. I did get some necessary, although boring, tasks completed: I finished putting baseboards in all of the rooms, I added a base surround to give me some room to add piles of snow around the edge of the building, and I built a frame for building the loading dock doors.

I'm planning on an old-style door with a strip of 3 windows above and a door that looks like 3 doors side-by-side but is actually a double size door plus a single width door. Hopefully it will look like what I have in my head.

I finished the door handles for the front and middle doors. I used white beads for the end of the handles for the red door and red beads for the ones for the white door.

Then I installed them, of course.

I also put together the little lunch room corner so our postal elves will have someplace to take a break and have their lunch, or a snack. Of course they have the essentials there - regular and barbeque-flavoured Pringles and a tin of chocolates! I see someone is about to have their sandwich. I hope they're working in the back room for the rest of the day - looking at all those onions they're about to eat!

The Camp Mini Ha Ha coffee cup was a little something provided to Campers by a generous "secret Camper". I purchased the sandwich plate some time ago.

Last week I received this chair kit from my friend, Marijke and thought it would be perfect for this scene. The chair kits were made by Samm Brockhurst, from Ontario, to go along with the 2008 wall-hanging kitchen project from Camp. Marijke had a few of the extra kits and gifted one each to Louise and I. It did take me a little to figure out how to put it together but, once I realized the 4 pieces I was wondering about were for forming the "apron" around the seat of the chair, things went much more smoothly. I did have to cut the back legs a bit as they were longer than the front legs.

The shelf unit I made last week now contains dishes, a tea kettle and coffee pot, the aforementioned Pringles, and a lovely little radio that was a Camp tidbit a few years ago from Sherry Parker from Nova Scotia. I'm not sure about the white spots showing on the walls in these photos. I thought they might be excess glue and I would touch up the wall paint to eliminate them but, when I checked, there was nothing there. Perhaps just a trick of the light?

So - that is all that was accomplished this week. I do want to leave you with a new link, though. All of our Camp Mini Ha Ha people were so disappointed that this year's Camp had to be cancelled so we decided it was time to start documenting the projects from prior years. We have put out a call for Campers to send in their own bios and pictures of finished projects over the years. The blog is set up so that, once fully populated, if you want to see all of the various interpretations of the same project, you just click on that year in the label section. Alternatively, to see all projects of one particular Camper, you choose their name from the labels. We're in the early days of posting but, over time, a complete picture of our Camp adventures should be available. To see what we have at this point, visit the blog at: Camp Mini Ha Ha Projects.

UNtil next Tuesday - keep safe and keep mini-ing!! TTFN!! - Marilyn D.