While It Rains

 Yesterday I worked on the house for a long time.  Then things started falling off the house surface and I had to get out the hot glue gun.  I hate using the gun as the surface is never as neat as it could have been.  And the glue is hot.  And the glitter beads are small.  Hot burns.

As you can see the house now has shattered, blood spattered windows, the center top is filled with glitter beads, the shingle shakes are completed and the front (so far) has a sprinkling of glitter.  The first of many skeletons greets you at the doorway.  My visit to Joann's and Target resulted in the glow in the dark fingers (like candles) on the top corners of the house.  I also got a package of 6 more spiders.  I managed to glue the grey claw hands to the house corners and have two more to put somewhere.  I still haven't installed the rubber rat or the black cat.  But I will use hot glue this time, and forever more.

You may be able to see the shattered glass fragments.  This is like gluing jello to wood.  With hot glue.  I managed to apply the orange and black beaded "dressmaker" detail to the house.  I like how it looks.  I have to install all the skeletons (dangling from the ceilings, maybe), install the lights and glue the background papers to the back of the house.  Oh, and sprinkle on more glitter.  Then I can return to Joann's and return all the bits I didn't use, i.e. the extra container of glitter, and the two sheets of glitter foam.  I was short just a bit and the scavenged shingles from the old house did the trick.

I don't remember if it was Annie or Dee who suggested some grey shingles, but that was a brilliant idea and I am so sorry I was nearly finished before I realized it.  The flat black of the old shingles and the shiny sparkle of the new was perfect.  Ah, well.  There should always be room for improvement.

I like the house.  The design of the wooden doll house was very symmetrical so I stayed with that through the design process.  Matching it side for side.  The sides of the house need design work but I don't have anything left.  I could glue skeletons all along the sides. Instead of in the house, where realistically, no one will see them.  I need to drink coffee first.

G worked long and hard yesterday to remove the old bathroom exhaust fan and install a new one.  As with everything that needs to be replaced in this house, nothing fits.  Nothing is the right size and something will always need to be destroyed in order to install the new item.  Add in extra electrical wiring for the "heating element" on the old fan and you have an interesting mix of wiring to sort through.  Luckily, I had shirts to iron just across the hallway so I could run back and forth and flick switches to see what was hooked up to what until it all was sorted out.  But my part was easier than standing up on a ladder with the exhaust fan motor balanced on one hand and trying to connect wires with the other.

G finished the install, took a shower and went to bed.  Not even any supper.  He was up again at 4 this morning.  And left for work.   I stayed up to work on the dollhouse and then I watched episode one of The Good Wife on the internet and then episode two on the TiVo.  I had to add 30 minutes of recording time due to Football.  I had read comments about viewers not being happy with the first episode, but I thought it was fine.

I just lost everything I had typed in the past few minutes.    I was telling you what programs I am watching this season.  Project Runway (excited about All Stars coming in November), Survivor, Good Wife, Prime Suspect (my favorite), and for one more episode, Person of Interest.   We also record Body of Proof, NCIS, Castle and the Mentalist.  I also have the oldest episodes of Law and Order set to record along with the Killing and Fringe.  I'm going to finish my coffee, blow my nose and get on with this rain filled day.  My house is filthy, I have no idea what to prepare for dinner, I have nothing to eat for my diet but I am bundled up in a pair of G's jeans, a long sleeved tee and a (different) flannel shirt. Blue.