And In France Today.......

This morning my friend Claire in France featured me in her blog as her "Guest of the Month". She is doing this with a different miniaturist each month. I am honored. Here is her URL. http://rivolistory.typepad.fr/minirivoli/ Please go look. She has not been doing this long but she has a neat blog. I have to go find a Babel Fish to stick in my ear to read it. Ford Prefect was right. They work!

Now back to the US. I am starting to work on the kitchen armoire. Here's a first look. On the left you see the original from the Mac Kinzie-Childs catalog. I blew it up to as close to the size that I want to make it as possible. Then I drew it out on a graph pad to scale. This is my working drawing. It lets me figure out what pieces I need and how big they have to be.

Next I very carefully draw all of the pieces out on bass wood. I don't need any fancy hardwoods for this piece because it is going to be a painted finish. There is no reason to use anything harder. If I were going to keep a wood finish, I would use walnut of cherry. Those are my weapons of choice for that kind of finish.

Here it is in all of it's glory. OK so it's just a pile of bass wood. You will just have to wait to see what I do with it. By tomorrow I should at least have some of it glued together.

Oh! While I am thinking about it, I went to Wal-Mart this morning. I found a really neat tool bag. They just got them in the craft department yesterday. It was about 15.00. It has so many compartments that I should be able to put most of my tools in it and have them at hand. I am a sucker for bags with lots of pockets and spaces. This is the best!

I am going to take a break now and fill it with all kinds of goodies that I have been keeping in a drawer under the Mystery House.

Don't nag. I will get back to the armoire before the day is over.

BTW, I finished the cover up rug last night. I will block that today too.

Lots to do. I have to get to it. See you tomorrow.