Tools!

I didn't do a lot today.  It was just one of those days, I guess.  What I did do was kind of thrilling for me.  

I explored one last bag of miniature things.  I thought the bag had beads and seashells, extra pieces of furniture, and old Fimo. But it had more! I came across my missing mini tools!  The saw.  My screw drivers.  Files of all sizes.  I am so pleased.  

That made everything so much easier and I could carry out my plans very efficiently.

I needed to make some changes to a piece of furniture.  A few years ago, I got myself some minis for Christmas.  One of them was a lovely island or kitchen cart.  

I have long felt that it wasn't quite right for my kitchen.  It was close though and I liked it, but the height was wrong for how I thought my kitchen would need to work surface to be.  

I think the lady of the house would have done most of her work at the table, the kneading would have been done there, vegetable prepping would have been done there, things like that. And the Island effect wasn't quite right and I needed a kitchen table more than an island.

So I made that happen today.

I cut the legs right at the top of the shelf part of the island, and then I cut off the feet from the bottom of the shelf piece.  The feet were then glued back onto the table and voila.  It is exactly right.

Then I was left with a weird piece.  I decided to turn that into shelves for the jars of canned produce from the lady of the houses garden.  Almost like a pantry, it will hold jarred peas and jams and possibly a bag of flour or of oatmeal.  

I cut a popsicle stick to size and inserted it between two slats.  I beefed up the strength of the little shelves with a support underneath.  Here it is all dried and ready for paint.  Somewhere among the bits and pieces are some newel post type things, that might get cut to size and added, to act as legs for my shelf, but that is a tomorrow project.

I also found the bike.  

I had forgotten about the bike, but the bike is going to have to sit near the door out in the garden. It just must.  It is the picture in my head.