I finished my blackhouse (crofter's cottage) last month in time to enter it in a competition, but then I immediately turned my attentions to Christmas and never got around to posting the finished pictures here.  (I won't know the results of the competition until February.  I hope I'll win something!)

So here it is, finished at last.


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 I've finished my outer walls and almost finished thatching my roof!  And I made a box bed.


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Now I have the underside of a roof!


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I have more walls and floors!  And even doors!


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I have walls!  And floors!  And a very silly cat.  Gianni refused to get out of the way for pictures.  I love the first one.  He was playing with a little plant seed or something.


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Here are just a couple of the preliminary furnishings I've acquired for the little blackhouse, even though it's not ready yet.


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Long time no post!  I guess I've been busy with other things, but always thinking of you, dear reader!


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Updates of both projects, with lots of pics.


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I can't believe it, but I was on the front page of Etsy again!  And in the first spot!  Not that the order necessarily matters (apart from wanting to be in the top 12 spots out of 16, because the last 4 spots are just "alternates" if it gets on the front page), but it's nice to be the first one.

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