Once In A Blue Moon - Day 6, 7, 8 - How I Made The Floor

The floor on the first level in the main room is finished.

I had two pieces of Dark Walnut and Maple.

I cut them in 1/2" wide stripes, arranged accordingly the colors and jointed them with the small pieces of tape.

After that, I put this sheet between 2 plywood pieces (1/6") and cut it in 1/2" wide stripes again

I arranged the new cut stripes trying to build a chessboard design

It was a bit challenging to take the tape off, because the wood was so fragile and as you see, I broke some tiles

However, I was pretty satisfied with the result when the floor was put together

More than that, since this sheet was in between 2 plywood pieces, now I have stripes to finish the floor for some other project, may be for my castle!

but let's go back to the floor. Since the house was put already together, it was not very comfortable for me to put a stripe after stripe straight on the floor in the room. I covered the stripes with the tape again, glued it to the thin board with the other side (without a tape), took the tape of, sanded the whole surface, finished it and the floor was ready to be transferred to the room.

Thank you for your time!

Natalia

Once In A Blue Moon - Day 5

For a small room (probably a kitchen) on the first floor I used a styrene sheet in 1/24th scale and colored the tiles with Prismacolor permanent pens randomly.

One more room is finished.

Next step will be the floor on the main level.

Have a great weekened,
Natalia

Once In A Blue Moon - Day 4

The floor on the second floor is sanded, stained, in a word - finished, and I am very happy with it.

I finished trimming the walls inside the house on the second floor.

next step is to finish a small room on the first floor.

Have a great day!
Natalia

Once In A Blue Moon - Day 3

All walls inside the house are wallpapered!

I also trimmed the opening on the second floor with stained sticks.

My next step is to finish the floor on the second level.

I prepared some sticks

and cut them evenly

more later...

Once In A Blue Moon - Day 2

Back to my Blue Moon Cottage. I applied wallpaper to imitate stucco walls and covered the floor in one room with tiles, actually embossed paper imitating the tiles...

I also stained sticks that I am planning to use to trim the walls inside the house.

This wallpaper will be used for the entire house. Looks simple but this is how I roll right now.

Natalia

Once In A Blue Moon - Day 1

The New Year brought some unexpected and unpleasant surprises in our family's life that explain my disappearance from the Blogger land, but I will not burden you with our problems. I will just say that it is nice to come back and dive into my little world with big projects. I missed it a lot. I am so hungry for new miniature adventures that added tons new projects to already existing pile of old ones, but later about it...

All that time I didn't have a minute to work on my current projects. The inside walls in my castle are waiting to be painted; the church has to be put together; the room box devoted to my Grandma requires a lot of stitched elements to finish it; Vanessa's estate is staring at me with dark empty windows from the corner of the room trying to make me feel guilty, brrr... creepy...;

Guess what, they will wait... This weekend I am in the mood to start something new.

Last October during the local mini workshop I won this little cute building in auction for $10.

After some research I found out that this miniature cottage was built from the discontinued Dura-Craft kit that is called Chelsea. I even found a picture of it

The cottage I will turn this building into will be called Blue Moon Cottage.

Does anyone know where Blue Moon came from? what it refers to? I went to google and read that "Blue moon" appears to have been a colloquial expression long before it developed its calendrical senses.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first reference to a blue moon comes from a proverb recorded in 1528:

If they say the moon is blue,
We must believe that it is true.

Saying the moon was blue was equivalent to saying the moon was made of green (or cream) cheese; it indicated an obvious absurdity.

In the 19th century, the phrase until a blue moon developed, meaning "never." The phrase, once in a blue moon today has come to mean "every now and then" or "rarely" — whether it gained that meaning through association with the lunar event remains uncertain.

I am not certain where Blue Moon will bring me, but now the cottage looks like this.

I had to take it apart in order to treat the inner walls in the way I see them, and with this optimistic note and a great feeling of accomplishment I am going to the bed.

Have a great weekend,
Natalia


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