Well, I suppose there's one good thing about this delay in being able to finish the toy store...... I'm getting some detail stuff done that I might not have bothered with otherwise. Of course the other day I added some coloring pages to the outside of the checkout counter, and today I finished dressing the counter, and ended up going ahead with a few projects that I kind of thought I might not actually do for it. Originally I had a full size cash register for the shop and I had printed out some crayon and colored pencil box fronts, and wanted to have both of them on the shop counter, but I realized that with both of them on there they took up almost the entire counter, so I was kind of thinking maybe I just wouldn't do the crayons and colored pencils, but then the register still seemed kind of big so I thought hmmm..... maybe I can make a Square POS style register for it; but then I wasn't even totally sure I was going to bother doing that. Today, though, since I still don't know when or if I'm getting the T-Rex charms (if I haven't gotten any updates on it by Tuesday I'm just going to order more), I was going to work on finishing off the check-out counter so I decided to go ahead and give the smaller, modern register idea a try.
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| the stand for the register is made from the tab from the back of a Dollar Tree frame that I pulled out of the back of the frame because I was using the frame for a different project. It's probably a little wider than it should be, but there wasn't really any way to cut the width down (at least not without it being crazy difficult) |
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| the tablet part is also a little too thick, but it was the thinnest wood I had at the time (well, or so I thought, actually found some that was a little thinner after it was completely finished and by then I wasn't going to remake it) |
Even with some of the proportions a little off I still think it worked out pretty well, and I was going to just leave it at that for the counter, but of course I just couldn't let the crayons and colored pencils idea go now that there was {probably} room for them so I made the little boxes of crayons and colored pencils (just glue a printed box front to some wood scraps and cut it to size and painted the sides and back), but then I couldn't really just have them sitting loose on the counter so I had to figure out how to make a little display for them.
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| the display for the crayons and colored pencils is made from cardstock. I actually started by gluing the crayons to a piece for the base, then used a little scrap of wood to elevate the colored pencils and glued them down and then just kind of eyeballed the sides and cut them out and glued them onto the base and then glued on a front and back and then cut the base to the correct size |
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| I also ended up painting it because some of the seams (especially where the sides met the base) where a little too prominent and the paint helped cover that a bit |
For the shelf that is open to the front I had been kind of waiting 'til I got the last of the charms, because I thought I might want to use one in there, but I just really at this point want as much done without them as possible, and I had enough other stuff to use in there that I went ahead and finished that display without them.
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| the unicorn was a little bead from a bracelet, the light brite box was something I had had as an option for the open wall shelving, but ended up not using, so I stuck it in here, and then I had an extra coloring book that didn't end up getting put on the wall with the others and of course extra crayons and colored pencils |
And, again, because I have some extra time to mess around with little details I put some plastic "bags" and paper "bags" in the bottom shelf that's open to the back to the counter.
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| the plastic "bags" are folded pieces cut from and actual plastic bag and the paper ones are just little pieces of folded pape |
So now All I have left to do is get those last few dinos in place once I get them and then glue everything in place. I might actually glue almost everything in before then even though because I made sure that I made it so that the trunk can always open so I think I should be able to get the bookcase in though there if I have other stuff in the way from the back opening......
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