Brent's enchanting castle



Here's Brent's first woodworking project. It was a Doozy. It took him from The beginning of September to the end of November; so, three full months. It might have been less time if he didn't have to wait for his wife to finish painting all the deails she wanted.

Step one: Start with big piece of wood





Step two: Make it look like a castle



Step Three: repeat step two

Step four: see step three



The two pieces can be combined to one big castle

 


 


Step next: make it Beautiful.
The climbing ivy was my idea, everything else was Brent's,
including making it blue. I was really hesitant at first, but now
I really like it. Especially with the scenerry on the outside.

The silver thing is the crank for the drawbridge. But Kit likes it better
where you can just pull the string to raise it, so we'll see if it stays.

The princesses are stickers, but they look great on there.
Plus they are the size of her little pirncess toys, so it's perfect.



There's the whole thing. I like the Rapunzel's tower (pink) the hearts turned out really well.
Which Brent did by sight with a jig saw!

Kit is SOOOOO excited! She kept sneaking over and playing with it while we were painting our trial boards, and once the drawbridge was on, there was no stopping her. So, I had to stop working on it while she was awake, and trek it from its hiding place in my closet down to the Kitchen at night to paint it, and then after it dried scrape the stairwell walls all the way back to the closet. No, really, I didn't transport the thing once where I didn't almost take a chunk out of our wall. I think the walls would go before the castle, it's sturdy. The kids were both sitting on it at one point, and it didn't even wobble.

The castle was built for the polly pocket sized princesses, but Kit had found out that it works for My Little Ponies too. I asked her why she played with her ponies and not her princesses, (worried that the ones we got her to go with the castle will be left to the side) she replied that she simply couldn't find them in her room. heh. That's my girl.