Book Nook - A Lesson in Patience (2/21/26 - 2/28/26)

For Christmas 2024, Junior and Mrs Junior got me a book nook for the Magical Potting Shed. At the time, Maggie wasn't ready for decorating. She had external walls, but no interior walls or space for me to display a book nook, so my Christmas gift sat and sat.

A little Magic House book nook for the Magical Potting Shed.

Once Maggie's interior walls were finished and I started decorating, I finally bit the bullet and pulled out the project. They always look so cool when I see pictures of them, and I didn't think they could be that complicated. Boy, was I wrong.

I unpacked everything, looked at the instructions, and almost put it all away. 

I was intimidated and overwhelmed by the project. But you know the only way to eat an elephant, right? One bite at a time. So I took my first bite. I'd put on the TV for some background noise, and it took me:

• An episode of Eric Dane's "My Last Words"
• The movie "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• s1e1 of The Walking Dead
• 3/4 of s1e2 of The Walking Dead

to get one wall done.

It is cute, but so labor intensive.

One wall complete, and time to call it a night.

I put it away to work on the following weekend, in which I stayed up entirely too late to finish, but finish I did!

Mr. Boomerang giving my wiring work
a bit of a cat scan.

Finishing the project took a few hours, but went faster than the first weekend I worked on it. The wiring of the lights needed the most focus, but I managed to get it completed. And, honestly? Once I figured out how to interpret the Chinese-to-English instructions and pictographs, it was smooth sailing.

As overwhelmed and frustrated as I was to start eating this elephant, it was worth it in the end and it will look amazing in Maggie.