The "She-Shed"...What a waste of time!

I had some sheets of foamcore that I glued together to start working on this but they were ones I had used for displays at our Miniature Show and Sale so they wouldn't have worked well. So Leanne (bless her heart) got me 8 new sheets, among other things, at Dollarama  for Mother's Day.

Saturday, I spent some time working out a plan on graph paper and managed to get everything but a roof (including a removeable front) out of one sheet.

After Leanne dropped off the foamcore yesterday, I remembered that I had a can of Krylon spray adhesive in my stash.and thought, "oh, that'll be perfect to laminate the two sheets of foamcore". 

Well, it would have been if the nozzle hadn't been plugged! So, off to the internet to find out how to unplug it.

First try: soaked it in rubbing alcohol since that was suggested on the can label. No.

Second try: soaked it in hot water and dish soap. No.

Third try: substituted the plugged nozzle for the nozzle on WD-40. No.

Fourth try: soaked the nozzle in acetone nail polish remover. Didn't work on the adhesive can.

Fifth try: tried the nozzle on the WD-40. That did work.

Since the nozzle didn't work on the adhesive can, thought I'd try the WD-40 nozzle on the adhesive can.

That didn't work either so I have to assume that the problem is with the adhesive can itself. So a day and a half later, gave up on the idea of using spray adhesive.

So now  I have glued two sheets of foamcore together, weighted them down with four books I have for just that purpose.

Just waiting to make sure the glue is dry then I'll start cutting out the pattern.

Happy Mother's Day - non-mini

The other project I have been working on...

My dear DIL, Julie, chose the most wonderful birthday/Mother's day gift from her, Sean and the grandchildren. 

They gave me a subscription to StoryWorth.com 

This is a company that sends me a question about my childhood/early life once a week.

My answer is sent to the company and to Julie (who then shares it with Sean, Jonah and Holly).

At the end of the year, all my answers will be compiled into a book and shared with them.

This is one of the most wonderful gifts I have ever been given.

My Dad and Mom wrote their autobiographies in 1996 and Sean and Leanne have their copies of them. So Julie thought that this was a way to get me to add to their stories.

Making siding from foamcore

At our M.E.E. meeting tonight, we decided that next year's project would be "she-sheds". Tina said she would cut the buildings for 1:48 scale but not for 1:12 scale. 

As I haven't gone over to the dark side yet (still have a kazillion pieces of furniture and accessories in 1:12), when the discussion came around to those of us who still do 1:12, I remembered this little vignette that I taught to some friends in Nova Scotia on my last trip (way too  long ago) to visit Cheryl.

I looked at one plan tonight for a 1:12 she-shed and thought, "Ooh, that's simple enough it could be done in 1/2" foamcore." Yipes! That was before I looked at the cost of it! 

So I'm thinking that if you glued together two pieces of the foamcore from Dollarama, you'd get a good piece of 3/8" foamcore which should be sturdy enough for a simple roombox.

I'm pretty sure this idea of scoring foamcore to make siding came from Joann Swanson.

Sorry these pictures are so poor. I took them in the living room where the lighting is terrible.

Here's the vignette...very simple...just a framed bit of siding and door with a decorated porch.

Just a small 4 3/4" wide sample:

On the right hand side you can just faintly see where I have marked  1/2" increments. They are about 1/4 of the way in from the left. 

Didn't want a pencil mark across the paper so I just used a ruler and X-Acto knife to cut across the markings. Just through the paper and about 1/2 way through the foam...which is how you're supposed to make the first cut anyway.

Then I used the top of my X-Acto knife to make an indentation at an angle along the cut line.

Here I've tried to show you the edge with the angle.

(This is driving me nuts!!!   The type is defaulting to blue and underlined. Can change it back to black but can't get rid of the underline! )

Anyway, that's just my little tip for today. 

(Finally figured it out! The underlining was creating a link so I had to tell it to delete the link and that erased the underlining.)

Real life has caught up with me big time. My DD Leanne has been doing my shopping for me since the first time we were put in lockdown because of the pandemic and every two months or so, she goes to Costco and gets me a big order of hamburger, chicken breasts and pork tenderloin. That all, of course, has to be cooked and/or frozen into individual servings. Great once it's done but time intensive until it's all been taken care of.

Got all the paperwork (well, 90% of it) done from the workroom cleanup. Got my taxes done and will do DS Shirley's tomorrow.

Have had another interesting project to do that I'll tell you about tomorrow. It's non-mini but such a pleasure and a joy to do.