Before and Maybe After.....

Still dragging things out of the workroom to toss...Don't worry.  Nothing that will be missed.

I started at the top of this bookcase this morning...Poor Clockwork Cottage... It needs love and attention.

I kept looking at it as I cleaned...Then I stopped.  Grabbed a quad pad and started drawing.

I looked through the kits that are still not made and decided that none of them would look right as a "tree" house.

As I studied the Clockwork Cottage, I realized that it would work.

There is already some stone foundation made of DAS on the right side that looks like the Korean foundations. I have a head start!

I started doodling and this is what I came up with.  It may be a "three tree house".  I will have to work that out as I go along.  I need a new supply of DAS. I am out.  

I will also have to decide what the best way to do the trees would be.  I think that I will try a couple of techniques.  One would be all DAS.  The other would be to do the trees with twine and glue and then covering it with DAS to smooth.  I am leaning towards the second one.  I think that it would be faster and more flexible.  The stonework would still be all DAS.

I would like to say that I am starting this right away, but I am going to resist.  I need to finish the Weaver's Workshop before I switch again.

While I am stuck cleaning the workroom, I am keeping Tessie busy elsewhere.  I have a Halloween lunch to attend next Wednesday Witch's meeting.  One of our members owns a great restaurant down next to the Tucson Museum of Art, called Cafe a la c'art.  Judy invited us all down there to eat....On the condition that we wear costumes. 

Everybody in the group is used to me wearing a shirt with spiderwebs printed on it or something of the sort.  Every year I tell them I don't do costumes...

What they don't know is, I used to do costumes and go all out.  I just got tired of it.

This year, I found the perfect shirt for me.."I don't do costumes" is printed across the front in bold letters.

Tessie is helping me accessorize.  I found a punk rocker's wig....I will probably look like a cross between Sammy Haggar and Twisted Sister in it...That doesn't matter.  I'm going in zombie makeup... Complete with torn nails and scabs... That'll teach them to hassle me about costumes!  Now where did I put my extra pint of blood?

Tessie helped by cutting up an old t-shirt and making a spaghetti scarf.  With matching bracelet from the leftovers. I kind of like these for regular wear.  Right now there are dozens of instructions on U Tube for them if you are interested.  They are really fun to make and you can do it plain or with beads and other adornments.  Some versions are quite nice.

OK.  That's it for my break.  Back to work.

See you tomorrow.