Sugarplum Cottage to Monarch Cottage 13

 

The roof!

 The sage green felt worked better than I had hoped. Stretching it flat was pretty boring but layering really put some oomph in the exterior. The strips are taped in place and the slopes over the front door are not yet covered. 

The green of the porch benches now clashes with the green of the sod roof.  They need to be a warmer color, maybe pick up some of the burnt orange from the Monarch butterfly wings. Since the benches are not removable, repainting is going to be tricky; time to hunt up the Frog Tape. 

The furniture has been painted with gesso. It was painted ivory after this photo was taken. Tomorrow some decoration will be added before it makes its final appearance here. There is a lacey handkerchief in the stash that may serve as a sheet and pillow cases for the bed. Will need to dig into the fabric box for some suitable bedspread material. 

Since the "windowpanes" will be glued on the inside of the windows, the edges of each window needed to be painted to cover the gray edges of the cardboard timbers, the wooden edges of the walls, and some gesso that slopped over from painting the interior walls. The outside corners, where two bits of the timbering met, also needed to be touched up. A jar of brown paint and a very tiny brush took care of all that. The interior window frames need to be made.

So many details at this stage but it is fun to be able to hop from one thing to another. It will all come together in the end.