The obvious answer …

er, do the job in front of you?

Not done anything on the half finished shop project since around May 7^th and then only dribs and drabs.  Decided that before I tried to wind up a little umph to start a new idea based on I’m not sure what, I needed to squeeze out a dollop of it first to tidy away whatever was lying around of the unfinished shop departments box.

Good idea, I thought; shows willingness to go back to mini-ing without committing self too far then I could sit about and think some more.  That is until I really took a look at how much was lying around on every surface available, floor included.  (Zoe, feel free to attest to how messy it is!).

The excuse for the mayhem is as follows.
This ‘set it all out’ behaviour has become my general practice once I reach the second half of any project because that’s when I start to see where it’s probably heading and I can start to work out how various bits might need  to be dressed and finished.  Thus I gather around me small boxes of goodies that can be quickly picked through so I can make choice at a moments notice when crucial points have been reached and I don’t have to go searching any further than the nearest work surface.

Unfortunately that does mean that, at the end of the build, it leaves loads of small boxes to be sorted for the remaining goodies to go back in their more or less rightful homes – until the next time the half time whistle is sounded on a suitable project.

So the workroom is once more betwixt and between:  half finished project taking up most of the work table (and tools) surrounded by lots of little containers and lids acting as trays covered in possibilities to rummage through for the end of story.

There’s no way out of this other than through, is there?

So no new build at the mo, I suspect.  Don’t know how far I’m going to get but I’ve got to rev up once more for the store displays etc and dig in where it was ‘dumped’ in order to have the elbow room for moving on.

Ain’t that the story of life?

Just the little things

So far …

Lying around were the bits for the roll of wrapping paper.
The cutting bar is somewhat wiggly, but it’s probably as old as me by now!
It now needs a string dispenser

Next up

The question of whether to close off the back of the the display windows, as I seem to remember they always were, has been bugging me.  Decided that, as the store is meant to be viewed more or less adequately whether closed fronted or open, then it would be wiser not close the back fully, thereby leaving some view of the inner workings of the store viewable through the display.

Stepping out on the Town – slightly 3D fabric print

She stands in front of her chum in brown and they/re both squashed together on one side of the window

Closer look at the semi 3D figure set in the beginnings of a Springtime Display

Diary notes of what to do next – or not

Might try a bit of ribbon at her waist to represent that bow(?).  Still have to sort out a sort of fabric and jewellery clump I think to finish off the right side, and the whole base wants is covering completed.  The odd flower etc to add possibly.

Got so cold faffing around this morning goodness knows what I’ve glued adequately at all.  Concerned the glues used may stain the fabric sooner than I’d like, but we’ll have to wait and see.