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I so very carefully made sure I had everything lined up perfectly, but the chandelier must have slid a little bit when I put the clamp on, because it's not centered on the ceiling medallion.  It looks absolutely horrible, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it...there's no way I could take the chandelier back down to reposition it without ruining it, the medallion, and the whole ceiling.

mad

Plus...the teardrop was hanging a little off kilter, so I tugged on it ever so slightly to straighten it and it came right off.  I can't put it back on now that the chandelier is in place, so it's going to have to stay off.  That doesn't upset me as much as the whole thing being off center, since I was waffling on using it anyway, but still...

mad

I suppose the ugliness won't be too noticeable once the whole room is finished...but it's always going to bother me at least a little bit.

This isn't the furniture I'm going to end up using in this room, it's just to give you an idea of what it will look like furnished. And...since Melinda was commenting yesterday on how tiny the house is, I sat a 'regular' dollhouse scale (1:12) chair in front of it, so everyone else could see what she was talking about.

Oh yeah, the construction change I was going to tell you about today...

If you look closely (click the picture to enlarge it) at the finished chandelier from the first time, which is one of the pictures I re-posted on Wednesday, you can see a definite 'line' about a fourth of the way down from the top of the chandelier where I switched from 2mm beads to 3mm beads.  When I made the chandelier this time, I varied the transition a bit so that it wasn't so noticeable...if you click on today's picture you can see the difference.

And something else...look at the crown moulding on the wall behind the chandelier...I used yellow tack to hold it in place while the glue dried and it left yellow goobers in the trim.  I tried to tease the yuck out with a toothpick but I didn't have any luck.  If anyone has any ideas on how to get it out, please share them. (Dry ideas, not wet ones, I don't want to ruin the wallpaper.)  I'm thinking that the next thing I might try is to take a dry toothbrush to the trim to see if I can scrub the yuck out...what do you think?

I finished the chandelier last night.  I did make a couple of changes, one of them in the manner of construction, which made things a lot easier, but which you won't be able to see...the other change I'll explain tomorrow, when I can get a better picture...today's picture is rather odd.

This morning I glued in the ceiling medallion, chandelier and the living and dining room fireplaces...when I come home after work I can take the clamp out, plug the wires in, then glue the floor down in the room above. 

This is for my new PC (at work).  It's traveling slower than Susan's Halloween present did.

Date/Time	Activity	Location
Oct 28, 2009 9:47 AM	Arrived at FedEx location	FORT WORTH, TX
Oct 24, 2009 4:21 PM	Picked up	EL PASO, TX

What did FedEx do?  Walk it the 600 miles from El Paso to Fort Worth?

Blog archives are great. 

I tore apart the chandelier I broke and am making it over again.  As I was working on the bottom I thought I'd change it a little to make the drape longer, and perhaps leave the center teardrop shaped crystal out.  I backtracked in the blog archives to discover why I made it the way I did, because I remember it took several tries to get it right the first time.  I don't want to go through all that again! 

This post tells me that I want to leave the drape alone...although it would look better longer, it won't fit in the dollhouse if it's longer.

I keep looking at the picture of the finished chandelier, holding my fingertip over the teardrop crystal to see what it would look like without it.  I'm not sure if I want to put it back on or not.  What do you think?

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p.s.  Pop over to Melinda's blog to see the picture of her jack-o-lanterns, they're really cool.

I screwed up.

When I got the dollhouse back out I found three additional wall pieces that I started on eons ago then forgot I had.  They're trim pieces,not structural pieces, they go on the edges of the open sides of the house.

When I put the crown moulding up I extended it to the edge of the side walls, which is where these pieces need to go.  I briefly contemplated not using the three pieces of wall, but decided it would look better with them on.  Now I've got to saw off the ends of the crown moulding without damaging the wall and ceiling.

Plus, I've got to finish the three pieces...I've got the parts for the painted rooms done, but not the papered rooms.

Oh yeah...I got the living and dining room floors done.  I haven't polished the new pieces yet, so the colors don't match in the picture, but they will eventually.

 

We're having a company meeting in Chicago on November 16th and 17th.  It's on a Monday and Tuesday, but Bessie and I are thinking that we'll drive there on Saturday morning, instead of Sunday afternoon with everyone else...that way we can go to the Art Institute of Chicago on Sunday. 

We want to see everything, of course, but are particularly interested in the Thorne Miniature Rooms collection.  There's going to be a Victorian collage exhibit there during the time of our visit that looks intriguing too.

We're hoping to leave early enough on Saturday morning that we have time to go to a miniature store in the afternoon, before we check into the hotel.  I've got this one picked out, but I've got to run it by Bessie yet.

Susan got her presents yesterday, yay!

Now I can post pictures of what I working on the week after I finished Mz. Crowe's pumpkin...you know, the week I was posting dorky stuff like pictures of my haircut.  I made a second pumpkin for Susan...just a little one, as a surprise.

	10/21/2009	5:19 A.M.	OUT FOR DELIVERY
	10/21/2009	1:39 A.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN
	10/20/2009	10:39 P.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
	10/20/2009	7:04 A.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN
	10/20/2009	3:21 A.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
	10/19/2009	11:34 P.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN
	10/19/2009	8:15 P.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
	10/19/2009	6:40 P.M.	ORIGIN SCAN
	10/17/2009	2:29 P.M.	BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

I saw one of his pieces of art on the cover of a magazine that crossed my desk...I had to google...

Red Nose Studio

	Date	Local Time	Description
	10/20/2009	3:21 A.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
	10/19/2009	11:34 P.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN
	10/19/2009	8:15 P.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
	10/19/2009	6:40 P.M.	ORIGIN SCAN
	10/17/2009	2:29 P.M.	BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

Look at this! I purposefully took the box to the UPS store on Saturday before they closed for nothing...it sat there until Monday night.  Stupid UPS.  I wanted it to get there yesterday or today, instead it won't get there until tomorrow.  Grrr.