[Challenge & Achievement] 🌸 Wooden Blooming Book 🌸 Day 2: When you though you were gonna finish

[TheToday]

And I thought I was gonna finish this kit today! Sadly I didn’t have as much time as I thought. It was a nice heads up though! So this is me trying to build everything that will be built in my incoming meetup:

• Glittering Water Lilly Wall Art

• Golden Sunflower Wall Art

• Spring Time Bouquet Day 1 - Day 2

• Wooden Glooming Book Day 1

• Wooden Flower Basket

So yeah, since last time I crafted all the “main wooden flowers”, I thought to myself… “Well! Monday I’ll sit there and finish this book”. HUH! I haven’t even started the book itself, for God’s sake.

Well, tomorrow will be the day. I’m sure of it there were just a few more things to build. Last time I ended up with The Fantastic Four ready for business:

And they had each their separate kit-inside-the-kit, so today we’ll properly starting with the “main kit” that includes:

So yeah! When I saw that I realized how naive I was being about I’ll finish this today, easy peasy no way I was gonna use all those parts today before lunch!

Oh, btw! I forgot about this. The Fantastic Four separate kits included each two tiny bugs.

So glad I’ve noticed and saved them for later! They could’ve been easily missed and if so they would’ve been in the trash with the sheets.

Moving on! The first thing to build today was a ribbon that, according to the picture, should be that thingy at the front of the book. Cute! I was a bit scared about the folding parts as usual, but nothing broke so far. Nice!

And after that… A postcard! Well, a sign with a postcard. A postsign? Not sure how to call this little fellow! It’s cute though.

And here’s my first complaint already! So soon? Yeah, so soon. That’s me, folks.

Okay, le’t’s get into business. I had to build a light eucalyptus. It should’ve been an easy peasy, shouldn’t it? But… Okay, hear my out. Wooden sheets of parts A and B are not friendly! You’re making light and dark eucalyptus out of those, two of each. And those parts are not only fragile, it’s also SO easy to break or damage them while removing them from the sheets. Oh no! So there are 4 different sizes of eucalyptus petals here. Funny enough, sizes 1 and 4 provide spares, and 2 and 3 are the ones I broke. Lucky me!

I mean, look at that petal missing that side. And see the missing 3? That’s the 3 petal I broke in half. Lol.

Anyway! I added a spare 4 to that 3 spot. I won’t tell it if you don’t tell it

Moving on! Those two light eucalyptus are joining the… Postsign? In a longer stem. Mission accomplished!

Well, not really, because now we have to build another 2 eucalyptus, the dark ones. Yay! I took care of that quickly so I wouldn’t get too frustrated about those fragile parts.

Those two were easier and nothing broke this time though! Nice, nice. Karma wasn’t being a beach.

What now? Now… We’re done with the wooden parts! (for now, that is). Time for some plastic plants! This was easy and fast enough though. I just had to take some of these:

And turn them into these:

Beautiful and cute enough! There were still some plastic plant parts remaining, but I guess I’ll be saving those for later!

So what else..? The last step for today was something I wasn’t really understanding lol. Let’s see. Last time and today I’ve been building some wooden flowers, right? And a postcard-sign. For all of those I had to build the flowers/main things and then add a long wooden stem to them. Okay, all good, everything cool.

So… For the next step, I have to remove ALL of those stems for the flowers and the sign and substitute each of them for a small wooden-coloured part? It seems odd, like… Why did I have to build and fit all of those stems then? Is this anarchy? Lol.

I don’t understand it, but I’ll go with the flow. This is the way, I guess!

We’re done for today then! This is everything I’ve built so far:

I hope tomorrow I’ll finish the whole thing, finally!

But before saying goodbye, kindly join me in a minute of silence to honor our fallen and soon forgotten stems. They’ll be deeply missed.

That’ll be all for today, folks. I’ll bring more (and hopefully the last update on this kit) tomorrow. More blooming and less glooming though

See you/read you around!

[Tricia12]

you have made such a beautiful progress with all these flowers. so pretty.

[ThaoNguyen]

There were so many flowers, and indeed, arranging them wasn’t simple.

[TheToday]

Thanks a lot! They are indeed.

[TheToday]

So many, yeah! I just hope the “fit them all in the book you’ll build” process is not too tricky

[joy.licerio]

The flowers are coming together very nicely.
You put so much passion to these!

[TheToday]

Thanks a lot! I like to put it in anything I build or create

[Minus_88]

haha oh my, I can understand it’s frustrating to build something just to have it taken down again. I had the same with one of my marble runs. And that even had purpose .

Good luck on finishing it tomorrow. Can’t wait for that update

[Cozy.little.palette]

I love the progress you’ve made! You’ve made such pretty flowers so far. I’m excited to see this finished build! I also really want to buy this kit, I think it’s so pretty

[TheToday]

Yeah! I don’t know. During previous builds I had to de-build something because of my own mistakes, but this is the first time the manual asks me to build something just to undo it a few pages afterwards. I’ve checked the rest of the manual and it doesn’t seem like I’ll be doing anything else with those removed stems, so I have no clue right now what was the whole point of doing them in the first place

[Alicesharpe]

I love the Funko Pop figures in the back ground

[TheToday]

Thanks a lot! I’m proud of them nonetheless. Hopefully I’ll bring the final picture tomorrow! I believe you should give it a go, it’s a nice and fulfilling build, all things considered! Although I haven’t started with the book-base yet.

[TheToday]

Thanks! There’s some money there

[Cozy.little.palette]

You’re most welcome! I’m currently working on the Wooden Flower Basket so after that, I will give it a go! I love that it’s a fulfilling build. Thank you so much for sharing

Also how do you rename your links if you don’t mind me asking? Whenever I insert one it’s so long and I can’t name it?

[TheToday]

Oh, I see we’re going the opposite way! I’ll build the Flower Basket once I’m done with this one

Regarding your question, it’s pretty easy. Just go here:

And you’ll find this window:

Just add your link in the first field and the text in the second one.

[Nita_Davis]

The beach please sign really cracked me up. I can certainly feel your pain about the stems that you make full 12 inches long and then you break them back down into six inch pieces. I feel bad that I should have warned you on those. Hoping that the rest of your project goes well.

[TheToday]

It’s not your fault nor your responsibility! but it felt like a bad joke to be honest specially since the stem-making process wasn’t that smooth this time. But hey, I wish all my problems in life were like this one!

Thanks a lot for your post

[jeanneL]

I find the instructions for the flowers to be so confusing. When you open the flower kit, each has their own set of instructions BUT that guides you to making a single display. Only to find out if making the basket, you have to take the stems part. I wish they just did them like Rolife does and make the basket.

[TheToday]

Right? And it’s odd that also in the “main” instructions when building the “post-sign” and the eucalyptus, you’re also prompted to add those stems so after litteraly two pages you’re asked to remove them.

[jeanneL]

Rowood needs to consult with Rolife and get their instructions together!