Update

Several people have asked me..."How's construction going?" And my pat answer has been, "It's going." A couple of things have come up.

1. I was waiting for an order to come in with my outlets and eyelets for outlets because I needed those before I could properly measure the wainscoting.

2. Order arrived but now I can't find the piece of wainscoting I painted for the living room because things are so disorganized. So construction stopped organization started.

3. Weather turned cold and the second bedroom - the construction zone had stuff piled in front of the heater so needed to clear that so I could be comfy.

4. Bought two cheap utility type shelves to store the "stuff from in front of the heater" on and another work table.

5. I belong to the Greenleaf blog which is all about miniatures and they were encouraging me to start work on my Garfield. What? Start another house before the other one is finished? Most people on the blog have several going at once so that argument went right out the window.
6. One thing I didn't do with the first house was to make a template of everything. (I was too excited to get to work on it to do that boring step...well now I wish I had.) So I'm doing the Garfield right by making templates. Something that takes a lot of time but doesn't really need pictures to show what I'm doing...it is punching out the pieces and tracing around them on poster board...real exciting stuff...lol

7. Then I get an email from the business I bought my kit from. They have contests throughout the year and the next one is going to be, "Get on the Bus." The email included a discount of 50% off on the bus. (Shown below)

Now their contests have some great prizes such as $1000.00 gift certificate at their online store. And generally all entrants get some kind of thank you for entering type prize. Well 50% off and a chance to win how could I pass that up???? So my focus has now changed to thinking about what I can do with the bus.

Began surfing the net for ideas, asked my co-workers and friends and came up with making a miniature mobile classroom. For those who have been to my office you would know I love wolves. I have a bulletin board plastered with all kinds of pictures of wolves. I have a plaque of a wolf, my calendar is of wolves, I have coffee mugs with wolves...basically I collect wolves! So one of my staff (thanks Tim) suggested doing a mobile classroom devoted to the education of wolves. BINGO!!!!!

I'm thinking of making it a double-decker and having the living quarters on the top and the classroom on the first level. So how big is this project? The bus measures 30"W x 11 3/8"H x 9 1/4"D so it is no small structure especially making it a double-decker!!!!! But what fun! I have the capability of making water decals on my printer so figured I can get pictures off the net, put them on decals and the bus will have a custom paint job really easy.

Well that's what I've been up too along with work which has been extremely busy...with several 12 hour days. I swear I should have taken some law classes with investigations, documentation and dealing with lawyers, police, fire department etc. Hate it when real life interferes with my working on my miniatures...lol But the job pays for the fun of working on my mini's so guess I'd best keep it a while longer;) Until next time...