Thursday, October 18, 2018

{Whimsy Street Shopping District} - a little extra detail for the toy store while I wait for mail

Well, I'm still waiting for the little T-Rex floating charms I ordered (although at this point I'm thinking I may not get them and might have to order more, because the tracking for China Post says it has left China and the USPS tracking says they have a label for it but they haven't received the item yet....... and it's been in limbo between the two for quite a while, so I'll give it about another week and then reorder and do an expedited shipping rather than the free shipping. I feel like it being more of a priority will make it less likely to get lost lol).  In the meantime, as I'm sitting here looking at the shop, and everything that goes in it that I can't quite finish until I get the charms, I realized that the check-out counter was looking a little plainer than I was liking.  I didn't want to paint it because I wanted an even distribution of painted and unpainted fixtures in the store so that neither would look out of place, but especially as I was starting to set a few things on the open shelf on it to start to figure out what I'm putting on there (I was planning on having at least one of the dino charms on there, but now I'm kinda thinking maybe I'll just go ahead and use other stuff so it's done and whenever I get them there's literally only like 2 places I'll need to put them), I realized that it looked a little too plain on the outside with just being the plain wood.  Then it popped into my head to have some coloring sheets that looked like kids colored them displayed on the front and sides of the check-out counter.  And, as much as I hate to admit that I used MS Paint for anything, I would have had to get up and go to another room all the way at the other end of my house (which our house isn't that big I'm just being lazy and dramatic lol), and get on my old computer to use my Photoshop software, so........... lol.  But actually, Paint works pretty well for making pictures that look like a little kid colored them with crayons.  I probably could have got them to print out a little better if I had adjusted the resolution in Photoshop, but you know what, at this scale it's not like you're going to see a lot of detail either way, so I was satisfied with how these turned out.

{Sorry the pictures aren't great.... I just snapped them real quick to post on here and Facebook, I'll be getting better pictures of everything soon to do a post of the entire shop - either completed or completed except for those freaking T-Rex's lol}

So I guess, there's one good thing about my wait to see if I'm actually going to get those charms or not (which if I don't I'll get a refund for them so it's not a huge deal, plus they were only a few dollars anyway, it's more just that I hate waiting for stuff and now might have to start the wait all over again lol), it gave me the opportunity to add a little more detail to the shop, and added detail is never a bad thing!

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