I've been working on this post for three days now. Want proof?
See, today is Thursday and there on my laptop is Tuesday's spacewalk. I always wanted to be an astronaut. (Okay, I'll wait for the "her head's already in outer space" jokes. Are you done now?) But the last shuttle mission took off without me, so I had to sit in my house and work on the very highest level of my dollhouse instead. Trust me, some of the ceiling work would be a lot easier if I was in microgravity! It's hard to stand on your head and paint up in a corner. Don't forget, clicking pictures should give you a closer view.
Let's get back on topic... there's also a new light
The little midget outlet is adorable as all get out, but kind of a pain in the rumpus. Well, it's not the outlet's fault. I had to wire the itty bitty plug on the lamp's cord and I don't know if it's operator error or design flaw (no comments from the peanut gallery!) but I'm having fits getting it to keep working. It'll work once, then I unplug it and plug it back in, and it doesn't work. *sigh* Yeah yeah, I know, quit unplugging it! But I haven't decided where that lamp is going to live yet. And if I can't unplug and replug, then what's the point in the outlets? It's really no more difficult to hard-wire lamps in place. But I'm off-topic. Look! Wallpaper!
Yes I ripped off the banister around the staircase hole. It was bothering me. Over the years it had gotten warped and at first I didn't care, but the longer I stared at it the more it annoyed me. So I yanked it out and am squishing it flat. Technically, didn't "yank". I stole Dan's hair dryer and melted out the hot glue. I hope I didn't get any glue on his dryer, or he may have a new way to make his flat-top stand up tomorrow morning! And then I will be in trouble.
More wallpaper!
The wall between the two rooms and the bedroom ceiling/attic floor piece are obviously not glued into place yet. But I had to show the justification for the wallpaper spontaneously stopping 3/4 of the way up the wall! I didn't just get lazy. I promise. Yes the angle thing at the right side is supposed to be white. I put ceiling paper on that. And the wallpaper-stopping-height in the library was, well, mostly because I wasn't going to be able to go all the way to the top without patching paper, one sheet wasn't tall enough, so I just changed paper entirely.
There isn't a whole lot of rhyme or reason to which parts I designated "ceiling" and which parts I designated "wall", but it all makes sense in my head anyway.
That was Tuesday. This is Wednesday. One more room up on the third floor. Well, the bathroom is also not finished, but I still don't know what I'm doing in there, so the girl's room is the last one I can work on up there for now.
Here's a lovely before-and-after, all in one shot:
I'm going to have to make new bedding, I don't think the baby pink will work anymore.
It's a good thing I didn't do this room first, I probably would have just given up on the whole thing! I had to cut 10 different oddly-shaped pieces of paper (4 purple and 6 white) to do this room, and I still fudged a little. You see that small cross-section support up at the top? Yep, just painted that. And did a terrible job of cutting around it on the paper. Don't have any pictures of that. Do have a finished picture of the room. Don't mind the weird "dent" where white and purple come together at the bottom of the angle-ceiling. I'll hide that behind furniture or something.
Technically, not a "finished" picture. The wall you can't see at all because it's facing the same direction as the camera is not finished. I have all the white pieces cut out, just need to cut one rectangle of purple and then paste them all in. But it was my bedtime last night and I was tired of pasting my fingers together.
And that's how this has become a 3-day post.
One last thing. Look at what my FedEx guy brought me!
So many lights! And yet still not all of them. I have one more order on its way. This place is going to glow like the sun when I get it all wired. Well, except just when I got that lamp plug and outlet working again, the hanging lamp over the pool table quit working. So maybe I need this many lamps just so I can have a few that will actually light up. *sigh*
Also, I just realized that I accidentally ordered two sets of bedside lamps for the parents' room. Oops! Gotta go see which ones were cheaper and which company has a better return policy. Bye for now!
