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I basically made a Sherlock Holmes dollhouse, which was super fun. The fireplace and coat rack are glued in place, but everything else can be arranged and rearranged. There is a Persian slipper containing a miniscule packet of “tobacco” (loose leaf tea) hanging on the right side of the mantelpiece, there is a tiny letter stabbed into the top with a jack-knife, and the previous day’s leftover tobacco drying on the corner for Holmes’s pre-breakfast pipe (so gross). There is a coal scuttle containing coal and cigars in the corner, “V.R.” in bullet holes on the wall, and a deerstalker hanging on the coat rack. I didn’t make the rug or violin. The fireplace, coffee table, sofa, and chair are my first forays into making furniture. Also on top of the mantelpiece are a pipe stand with Holmes’s meerschaum pipe and the other pipe he smokes when he’s “disputatious,” a candle, and all of Holmes’s monographs.

The only bad thing about making these boxes is that as soon as I finish one, I start wanting to make another version – just better.