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It's difficult to balance spending time in my studio with time enjoying our brief summer season.  I managed to finish the outdoor shower and siding on one side of the house....and enjoy breakfast out with my husband at a new cafe before strolling through the annual downtown arts street fair....and get some much needed pruning and gardening done....and clean my house.  I had a very busy weekend.

The camera angle makes it look wonky, but let me assure you, everything is straight, at perfect right angles.

It's slow going, but I'm making progress....

I'd have done more, but my supervisor fell asleep, so I snuck off to the movie theater with my daughter.

I didn't finish the other side of the house yet; I got blood on it during the exacto knife incident and it was still a bit damp from the clean up.  I started on this side instead.

Not as much was accomplished as I wanted.  The house doesn't sit exactly square on the foundation, so all the deck boards had to measured and cut individually, as each is just a schoosh longer than the one before. 

I had a pretty  bad exacto knife accident....I've graduated from gauze and tape to a single band-aid, so will get back to the build soon!

I haven't worked on the siding since Sunday, I've got other stuff going on this week.  Instead of a progress report I'll share pictures of some new stuff I've acquired over the last month or so.

Pillows and seed packets from Brae.  A new chair from ebay.  Keys, spiderweb and doormat from The Dolls House Mall. Bottle blanks, and Crabtree and Evelyn shopping bag with product from ELF Miniatures.

I wanted to get one side wall covered this weekend, but Husband and I spent Saturday at the grand opening party of a microbrewery.   It's progressing slower than it usually would because I have to notch the end of the pieces that sit over the plate of the hinge.  I made good progress, considering.