Another Two Days Of Work

I took another two days of vacation this Monday and Tuesday.  I'm back to work tomorrow and had some time taken up with appointments yesterday.  But I still got a couple days worth of work done on the dollhouse.

It's probably more like one and a half days since I'm stopping to clean up my mess a bit.  And some of the house too.  Lots of sawdust.

I'll admit part of my day was setting up my birthday present.  My husband got me this awesome saw.  My birthday isn't for another ten days but I don't mind getting it early!

I haven't really gotten to use it because it needs to be higher up and fixed to the table and right now it's too low.   But I've been reading about it and putting on the blade guard.  The poor thing has sawdust all over it because I kept using my Dremel on balsa wood and that throws off sawdust like nobody's business.

What I've been doing since Sunday is work on the third floor of the tower and trying to get the second story of the cottage situated.  I wanted to see how it looked with the windows in and the walls up as much as possible.

See anything wrong with this picture?

I knew the third floor of the tower would be a bit of an issue with the main cottage roofline.  But I think it's workable.    I'm going to move the oriel window up a bit on the wall from the above position and add a few pieces of wood to fit it to the wall better.

I thought about doing the third floor in wood but thought it might be too heavy and the corrugated cardboard is a good width and curves easily once I've cut slits into it.

The front bay window is way too close to the entryway.  So I did some revising of my walls and openings to give it a bit more room for the casement windows and make it look more reasonable.  I also took some time to give the window a roof/top for the part that isn't covered by the second floor overhang.

Even though the entry is narrower now, I think it works pretty well.

And since part of why I'd done the dry fit again was to measure for the boards to fit the tower up against the back wall I started to work on that.

This is where the sawdust from the Dremel comes in because I was sanding down balsa wood boards so they would fit up against a rounded tower.  And then I glued them on.  I used painters tape to hold them in place and then my binder clips to tighten everything up.

 Then I tested it with the third floor on and realized I needed to make one wall a bit wider than the other.  So now all the glue is drying.

I did a dry fit of the roof too since I'd build up the brace for it.

I need to center my front gable, thankfully the little piece of wood on the right side isn't glued in, it's just taped.  I move that, more likely split it in half, and then add some height to the gable and that part of the roof will fit better.

Once that fits a bit better I'll work on the little dormer above the door and extend the roof length so it extends a bit over the sides of the four inch second floor wall.  I want to make sure the roof is shaped properly before I cut out the rest of the opening for the side dormer.

I'll admit that I'm not really anticipating accomplishing a whole lot else today.  I think I want to sit and read some and relax before I get going on my chores.

Hope everybody's week is going well!