May 2015: I started the Arthur as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I’m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!

So, I finally took two pictures of what I’ve been up to this weekend. (And let me say that the new camera takes NICE pictures. I’m still sorry I broke the other one, but not that sorry!)

Overall, everything has been fitting together nicely. I have had to enlarge some slots with my utility knife, and there are some cracks that will need to be filled with wood filler. The bottom of the front wall just wouldn’t meet the floor no matter how hard I tried (but it did lock into place on the side walls fine). No big deal… I can always fill cracks with wood filler or cover them with decorative trim. That’s why I love dollhouses but would never want to build a real house… with dollhouses I don’t have to worry about drafts, leaks, and weight-bearing walls!

My Arthur from the front:

I put the roof on temporarily while gluing, to help keep the walls square.

The next step in the instructions is to assemble the porch foundation. It looks like it might be as precarious as the foundation back wall… may have to pull out my trusty wooden blocks again!

May 2015: I started the Arthur as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I’m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!

We got a new camera this afternoon but I can’t use it just yet. The battery needs to charge first. But I should be back with pictures very soon. (And this time I won’t keep the camera dangerously close to where I’m working!)

In the meantime, I am all the way through step C (currently gluing the top part of the front wall on). This house really goes together quickly!

May 2015: I started the Arthur as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I’m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!

Turned out gluing the wooden blocks onto the underside of the foundation back wall was the way to go. Once that was glued on, the side walls went up fairly easily. I did that last night, and this morning glued on the bottom part of the front wall. It’s drying now. Still can’t take any pictures because the camera’s toast. When I knocked it off the workbench it fell on the lens… it’ll still take pictures but they’re really fuzzy! Geoff (my boyfriend) and I are going to take a trip up to Costco this afternoon and hopefully buy a new one. But my house is looking pretty much like everyone else’s did at this stage.