It was a sudden idea that entered my head when I was browsing printables for dollhouses on Etsy.
Long ago I projected a market stall - only I wasn't very sure what to do with it. I wanted it to be an organic products shop, but somehow the project was put in the back burner, and I never got around to even start it. I reasoned it was because I was actually not convinced of my idea, so I let the matter go. But some days ago, after buying some seed packets to put in my conservatory, I saw something in the listing that caught my attention immediately, and I decided it was going to be my next small project: a newsstand, or magazine kiosk.
So, yesterday I ordered a small (and very cheap!) market stall, and so I started planning in my head my new project. While it arrived, I collected every sort of magazine that I could think of (thank you, Google Images!) and started composing mini-magazines on Photoshop to put on the kiosk; it was not the first time I was doing this, so I already had a template to make the whole process faster.
Today I got the package. I was surprised when I got it to see it was going to be bigger than I expected:
I opened it eagerly, and found something peculiar. As you can see, it says "Wood glue included". Silly me, I thought it was going to be a small white glue bottle, and this is what I found:
Obviously, the glue was absolutely dry, and I tossed it out. Not that I was going to use it, but who could have thought that including glue like that was a good idea? In any case, it did not look difficult at all:
So, armed with paper clamps and my Tacky Glue bottle, I started the construction. It was only a matter of gluing the supporting arms to the canopy, and then the whole thing to the sides of the counter:
It barely took 20 minutes! Now I have started printing magazine convers and blank inside pages. They all have backs; an ad related to the thing the magazine is about:
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| 7 done, about 40 to go! |
If you want to craft some magazines for your mini-scene, here are a couple of free printables for you to play with:
More pictures of the progress soon!
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