A Year After the Guild School, or Yet Another Micro House

In my last post, I wrote that I was working on a special project. Well, I'm finally getting to reveal it now! Last year, I was lucky enough to go to the Guild School in Castine, Maine. I took Nell Corkin's 1/144th scale class. We made this tiny garden shed:

The class was really interesting, and I learned a lot. You can read a little more about it here. Or visit Nell's blog, at nell-miniminis.blogspot.com to see her amazing work.

Then, a few months later, I decided to try making another  micro shed on my own. It was a lot more difficult to build without the whole process broken down into nice manageable steps, but I managed. I had a few issues with scale, abandoned the more ambitious parts of the project, and struggled with the roof, but overall I was thrilled that I'd been able to use what I'd learnt in the Guild School to make a second, different structure.

For my newest micro structure, I really wanted to make a two story structure. I'd planned to make a loft in my little green shed, but an mismeasurement meant that I had to either scrap the loft, or re-cut everything.

I was much more careful with the measurements for this house, but I still had a few "oops" moments. Luckily, most of my mistakes this time around were easily fixed!

The ridge cap and finials on the roof were one of the last things I added. I used techniques Nell showed us for the climbing roses. I still need to touch up the landscaping on this side of the house.

On the other side, I added some sunflowers made from an SDK kit. I bought a few of their 1/144th scale plant kits several years ago, but this was the first I put one together. They went together really easily, and the scale looks about right, which is not always the case with plants advertised as 1/144th scale.
I'll post part II, the interior, sometime this weekend!