Cardboard mock up 2

This time it's our house. To be more specific, it's the main level of our house. I didn't get pictures during the making of it, but here's the finished mock up with the diagram used to cut out the pieces. A couple of the walls are a bit wonky, but I'm OK with that for our first try. I think I didn't take into account the thickness of the cardboard when cutting out pieces.

Thing one and Thing two, proud of our work.

In all, it was an interesting project. It didn't take long to do and really makes our house look small. Now the girls want to do the upper floor.

Cardboard mock-up

One of the projects in the Quarterly maker box curated by Adam Savage is a cardboard model of his maker space. Growing up, cardboard was how he got started in making and he wanted people to have skill with this medium. In the box were laser cut, labeled pieces to be hot glued together.

While originally, I thought that I would take the time to embellish the walls and make it more like his space than would be shown in plain cardboard, but then I realized that it was more important to do this craft with my daughters.

I didn't get any pictures of the pile of pieces before assembly, but here are some pictures of the process.
Of course, being 6 and 9, they seemed to think the best part was the bathroom:

Assembling the bathroom

Once they figured out that some of what we were putting in were display cabinets, they decided to decorate them. Thing one wanted to make sure the people had snacks and games.

Decorating the display cabinet

I believe Thing two drew Toothless.

As soon as we finished and I mentioned making a model of our house, the girls were ready to start measuring.  I now have the pieces cut out, but need to find a chunk of not busy time while the girls are awake to assemble it.

Quarterly maker crate curated by Adam Savage

In November I subscribed to Quarterly. I'll admit it was because Adam Savage was curating a couple boxes for it. I'd been skeptical about boxes like these in the past, but a box that he curated should be decent.

For those who aren't familiar with the Quarterly, you subscribe to get a box every three months (also known as quarterly) based on a theme. The one I signed up for is for makers and is curated by fellow makers and scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. They also have a Literary box, curated by best selling authors and a Cuisine box curated by chefs. Those seem much less interesting to me.

The box arrived mid December and I was excited to open it!
Here's what it contained:
A cutting mat and grid ruler

A knife for cutting

A dual temp hot glue gun and glue sticks

A bag, pencils, eraser and tape measure

Not pictured are a notebook, a bag containing numbered cardboard pieces and a short stack of cardboard. There were also instructions to start drawing simple items around us to practice drawing and a puzzle to solve to unlock a couple videos related to the box.

I saw that some people were disappointed by what was in this box, especially for the price. I wasn't unhappy. I've taken the notebook and, although I've skipped the included lessons for the moment (I want to get to those soon), I started sketching ideas to sculpt in it. I haven't been sketching out what I've been thinking of sculpting, so ideas get lost. I want that to change. There are pictures of a few of my drawings on my Valdelia Maker FB page

This holiday season was a making-centric one. I received the above, while my daughters each were given a subscription to a maker crate, which so far has been very appropriately assigned for my daughters. More on these crates in future posts!