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It has been awhile since I have posted, simply because, my camera died. I now have another camera, so I am finally able to update my blog. I have been working on this conservatory for a good few months now, since October 2012, it was a spur of the moment decision. All of the kits, were too big, and I wasn't keen on them anyway, and the basic structure (excluding the wall/floor tiles) cost about the same as a basic kit, in the region of £60 I think. I used wood from wood-supplies. This is their catalogue http://www.wood-supplies.com/downloads/catalogue2012/complete.pdf. The perspex I bought on Ebay, in A4 sheets, and the lead tape is for golf clubs. The MDF base was cut to order, by Spalding DIY, also on Ebay. Now for the bit, that upped the budget. I used Richard Stacey York stone flags, these all had to be cut in half. The Victorian floor tiles, are by http://www.dollshouse-tiles.co.uk/. The design I used, is called Stevenson, with a Kingsley Border. I have been looking for an excuse to use the tiny tiles this company makes, and this small floor space was the perfect excuse. Slightly nightmarish to lay, but so pleasing in the end. I had to redo this floor, so I am so glad I used their advice to lay on a piece of card (though I used graph paper) then glue in place, as I made a mistake and had to soak them all off and start again, which would have been impossible to do if they had been stuck straight onto the MDF. Always follow the instructions!!! :D The conservatory is based on a bespoke one that I saw on the Victorian Greenhouse website. The interior ceiling is not finished, and there a few holes need filled, and other bits and bobs to do, but my blog was neglected, so here is a work in progress. The roof is one sheet of perspex, held in a frame using wood supplies no. 287. The lead tape is self adhesive, and normally used for weighting golf clubs. I used some 1:12 scale dado rail underneath it and the copper glass clips were made using strips cut from medium, Art Emboss copper. The door was made from scratch, using wood from wood-supplies. The quadrant piece (around the windows, for example) is not the boxwood quadrant available from wood-supplies, as it was much too expensive for the amount I needed, so I used square pine dowelling, and sanded one edge down. The door handle, is a fluted vintaj bead and pin. The oval eye brass shape, is from A Miniature marvel. Stevenson pattern, with Kingsley Border, tiles from dollshouse-tiles. The rim lock is made from wood, card, thread (edge detail), and painted black , the handle is a fluted Vintaj bead and a tiny bead cap, on a pin. The plant stand is made from coffee stirrer sticks, lollypop sticks and square dowelling. It has an intentional broken slat, based on a real French one that I saw online. The tub is a bought one, with a wash of white primer. The plant, is paper, carefully cut into long thin triangular strips, painted, then glued onto a cocktail stick, with the surplus cut off. View through the door, you can see the ceiling is not finished. Still working that part out. The hanging shelf, hopefully, the picture helps to explain. There are two tiny drilled holes behind the link. I used a "U" shaped piece of copper wire to hold the link in place, held with tweezers and using superglue on the ends of the "U", to "staple" the link to the wood. The U shape was formed against a needle the same width as the space between the holes, then the ends trimmed. Since attaching the chain is quite fiddly, its best to mark out which link needs to be attached, by laying the four chains out flat, pinning either end with a fine needle, be careful not to open the links, like I did, then count the chains, marking the ones that needs to be attached, using a little spot of paint, rather than said needle. Even one chain out, you could end up with wonky shelves. By the way, it is surprisingly strong, I don't have anything on it for the photos, but it has been piled high with stuff, whilst I was playing around with it. It will need to have the chain anchored though, as it swings a bit. I used a fine 24 LPI brass chain and 1.5mm wood, which made it quite fiddly, but I think it would look great with a thicker chain and thicker wood, which would definitely be less fiddly. I was going for the ethereal look :D I used Richard Stacey tiles for the wall. Each tile had to be cut to fit, which I did by soaking the tile in water, then using a stanley knife to scribe a snap line. The snap line was then tidied up using various grades of sandpaper. This wall took forever to do, but I am pleased with the result. Once each tile was in place and grouted, I sanded the surface, to give it a worn, softer appearance. I used a Tamiya scribe to cut the perspex. I highly recommend this tool, for anyone working with perspex. I had tried using a stanley knife, with disastrous, perspex shattering results. This tool, cuts cleanly, as you can see from the perspex sheet it is sitting on It started off looking like an aquarium. The perspex is held in a frame, like the roof, using no.287 and no.242 from wood-supplies, which has a groove along the length that the perspex fits into, and the window panels were created by sticking double beading no.305 directly onto the perspex, front and back. The door, seen in the background to the left, is also made using wood-supplies wood. The MDF wood base, cut to order by Spalding DIY. I don't have a table saw, so thought this was a great service for anybody in the same boat, in the UK. I also bought some glass beads to fill cushions with. I saw someone else had used these for stuffing, sorry, can't remember who they were, but they are perfect. These are used for weighting reborn babies, the size I have used is 0.7 - 1mm. Any smaller and it might go through the weave. I got a 400g bag from Mohair bear making supplies on Ebay, but you can buy them from all over the place. They are quite cheap. . The glass beads make the cushion heavy, and you can "dent" them. And they are delightfully squishy.
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How will you get from point A to point B ? . Flow. . Flow is at the front end of my Garden Design Equation. . When I was in college, SMU, someone mentioned the sidewalks in front of Dallas Hall were poured, AFTER, they saw where students tread dirt paths thru low meadow. . (Privately, off topic, in person, you may wish to ask me about the tunnels under those sidewalks. That was a crazy fun date.) . Architecture, interior design, color, materials, scale, below, are sublime. In addition, flow is the unseen subliminal element. So good it's taken for granted. At our ca. 1900 American Farmhouse architecture home, below. We haven't lived here a week, how can we possibly know where to put paths, parking courts, drives, terraces, pole barn, and links throughout all? . Overflow parking, below, from my office view. My little van, Tess, is in front of the house, and another truck with long open bed trailer are in the drive along the opposite side of the house. . The golf cart has yet to be brought from the house we sold, nor 2 tractors and 2 more work trucks. . None of the above traffic/parking issues includes guest vehicles. . I adore this. . Creating flow/parking in our own garden. Foot traffic, below. Tractor Supply had a single boot choice for my new home, below. Work shoes from my former cottage garden, not sufficient in the least. . Drive, front parking court, overflow parking, a path, hugging the house are speaking. Good news. . Further from the house, the flow has no voice. At the back of the house, 2 out buildings, at left & at right, must be moved, due to flow. . Building at left is impeding vehicles, and building at right is blocking the deck we're building around the back of the house. Both buildings a century old, clad in metal more recently. We'll reuse the wood in our new shed I want built in the orchard, to be planted. . Hope you sense the best element in creating flow. Anticipation. . Every layer of a garden is exciting. Never tiresome. . More than anything I want several dump trucks arriving with our gravel. Too soon, don't know exactly where to place it. Patience. This is where G*d taught me patience, in a garden. We all get life lessons, yet they arrive in their own time and have different teachers. If we don't 'get' the bigger life lessons, they keep arriving until we do. . Patience. Your impatience is why I have a career. Every client, just like I was at the front end of gardening, thinking they can put in a garden, do, and it's horrendous. After my first garden making, vile of course, it was off to years of Extension Service courses, symposiums, then another college degree, in horticulture, finally touring historic gardens across Europe for 2+ decades. Now, I know a few things about gardening, and thrill at the new lessons still arriving, every day. . Moving into this new home/garden it is clear, I am an experienced gardener but a new farmer. Adoring a new learning curve. And living Thomas Jefferson's, " but tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener. ", backwards. G*d has a sense of humor in this new lesson, which feels like a gift, not a lesson. Great segue into Joseph Campbell's, " When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be." . Garden & Be Well, XO Tara . Top pic, Wendy Posard, bottom pics taken yesterday in our new home/garden.
