Aiffah : Leisure Time Tea Room updates (3) The pain of failures

Continuing the discussion from :+1: [Rolife DIY & Creativity] Aiffah : Leisure Time Tea Room updates (2)

After few days of taking my sickly sweet time building this kit, it’s starting to reach the finish line! This is the updates of failures…With perseverance I got to fix them :flexed_biceps: :cry:

Broke the Menu Holder. Fix it with glue craft, lil tissues. Sanded it a bit and painted it bright yellow. Not the best looks but it’s strong to hold on its own :slight_smile:

Installed the T3 & T4 frame for the Front Frame A at wrong side (!) When I realised it,
I look inward to my own brain “Why??”
Me to me : “ :woman_shrugging:

Tried coloring Pedestal in yellow but the result irked me :sob: so scrubbed the yellow and repainted with similar shade of the original beige brown and defined it. I promised you all it doesn’t look as worse as it is in picture :weary_face:

I dislike the cupboard sticker look for the Showing Cabinet, scrap it and colored the rest light-ish blue and drew the black handles on both side. I insert this in my failures because the choice of color :sweat_smile: :zany_face:

There’s some more items that I will DIY to complete the whole look, will show it all for the next (hopefully finished built) update! :toolbox: :house:

Now time for me to sleep and hopefully won’t dream of breaking any pieces :sleeping_face:

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Mistakes can be frustrating but we have to persevere. Well done

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This is so relatable. Honestly, these moments happen to all of us. What matters is that you fixed them and kept going, that’s real perseverance.

A lot of these “failures” actually turn into personal touches, and that’s what makes a build unique. You’re very close now, gogo!!

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I have tried painting something only to completely undo or pick another color! I figure a work in progress!

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You did great with all the furnitures. :+1::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

They still look great. They are slowly coming together.

Thank you for the encouragements :love_you_gesture: I was in “are you foreal?” mode to my own brain :joy:

The last sentence is so sweet. Yes, i should look at these “failures” as my personal touch :love_you_gesture: :sob: Thank you for the encouragement!

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I’m like :woman_shrugging: to myself over some of the color decisions hahahah

I realized I don’t have to follow the kit :100: so with this build, I really ran with slowing my time and branching out my creativities :two_hearts:

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I honestly think everything looks perfectly fine and has its own unique character to it. :pink_heart: I 100% feel you because we are our harshest critic but working on these kits have helped me so much in that regard. :smiling_face:

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Oh yes, you encapsulated what I felt “we are our harshest critic”. I will be more kinder to myself whenever I made these “failures”! :love_you_gesture: :weary_face:

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Oh, trust me. It still happens for me…even after over 100 models…Read, look, look again and STILL get a part wrong…LOL!

It looks great. You did well

Wow, huge respect for your perseverance! :flexed_biceps::sparkles:
Honestly, fixing broken parts, repainting when something doesn’t feel right, and even redoing sections shows real skill and patience. The yellow menu holder fix sounds super creative, and customizing the cabinet instead of using stickers is such a bold move ~ that’s real DIY spirit! Every adjustment adds character and story to the final piece. Can’t wait to see the finished build in your next update :house::hammer_and_wrench:
Now get some rest ~~~ you’ve earned it :sleeping_face::crescent_moon:

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Don’t be stress, take your time and don’t worry about the mistake :wink: every problem have their solving path… be happy :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: and you already solved the problem at the end, congratz :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I believe that you can have a great ending, looking forward for your completion :heart:

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I can relate of this. :sneezing_face: I broke the horse in my carousel and wrongly place the plastic in the window of my Christmas place. I’m still annoyed whenever I think of my mistakes. :sneezing_face: But I think it’s part of the process to improve ourselves in the next kit that we will be making so don’t be harsh to yourself.

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you adapted rally well. i love the cabinet colours. they doesn’t look as a failure.

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That’s great that you could build to the way you want.

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I think you’ve fixed your mistakes well. It looks nice. The problem is, when you build something yourself, you see all the mistakes every time, but others often don’t even see them :wink:

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