Don't Jump On My BED!!!!!

I finished the bed this morning. There is a tutorial elsewhere on the blog.....Would you believe that I actually have that one labeled "bed tutorial"? I do! Anyway, I won't go over all of the bed making again. I did take one photo of how the pillows are done when people don't want to sew. You simply make two of the same shape with card stock or index card and padding under the fabric and glue them back to back. I did the linen pillows by sewing, but the round pillow and the plaid ones are the glued kind. What's nice about the glued kind is you can make any shape pillow that you want as long as you can cut two of the same shape.

As soon as I finished the bed I put it in the Clockwork cottage to see how it fit. I think it is pretty much near perfect for the space. I am amazed that there is only one place that you can put a bed in that bedroom. One wall is cut up with eaves and bays and the other one has a fireplace, stairs and a weird opening to the staircase. I am thinking seriously of closing that. It doesn't make sense and besides Zar needs more wall space for an armoire or chest of drawers for his clothes.

Tessie had to be the first to "test" the bed. That's where today's title came from. I could hear Zar yelling from the workroom, where I went to put some of the bed stuff away.

Tessie says that is the only sane way to see if a bed is going to last. "If you can't jump on it, what good is it anyway?" She was trying to get Beau up there with her, but he is too well trained for that.

I finally got her off of the bed by telling Zar to take her to the kitchen and make some cappuccino. I know. That's asking for a hyper-Tessie. By the time that they finish the cappuccino I will be long gone. Balthazar can handle her. At least I am hoping that he can.

Here's the finished bed. It isn't really very Victorian, but in the Steampunk world you have lots of leeway on what works and what doesn't. Generally anything with cogs, pipes, or steam will be OK. After all, it is science fiction. That's the key word.

Oh! While I am thinking about it, I haven't seen it yet, but I hear that my friend Ronnie Godfrey managed to get me and Tessie into the latest issue of Dollhouse World over in England! Ronnie is on vacation right now, so I am not sure if she even knows about it. I guess it is a letter about Tessie and the blog on the editorial page. If you get the magazine, go look at page 11 and tell me what it says. Ronnie writes wonderful do it yourself for that magazine and so does her sister Beryl.

Ronnie and I have been in an online mini group together for over ten years now. I got to spend a couple of days with her the last time I was in England. It was like meeting a long lost sister. We had great fun. Beryl joined our group only a couple of years ago, so I didn't get to meet her at the time. Anyway, I am just rambling on now. I will quit.

See you tomorrow.