"I myself am...strange and unusual"

I'm up watching Beetlejuice (it's a childhood favorite-Shhh), so I figured I post something now.

My plan so far was to work on the things that I was making outside of the doll house, and then work my way in.

This is part of the cover that some people saw me working on in class almost two weeks ago. It says, "J. Wakefield's Wacky House of Silly Societies". I also attached four different parts to the cover to represent each "house" that I will be making.
This one is really simple, but it is supposed to represent the upper class house. You can barely see it, but attached to the heart is "gold" ring and a girl pendant which represents what obligations people usually have once they marry (more material possessions and children), and the butterfly represents the opposite of that- complete freedom.

I also made some exterior parts for when the house will be put on display for the final critique. I made a simple sidewalk:
I actually made this so it would wrap almost entirely around the opened house. It is also in four different colors, including a yellow part- yes, I did have to include a yellow brick road for my fantasy side of the house.

I also made some trees. They were originally all going to be attached to make one big tree...but it did not come out as planned. They all instead got glued together and it refused to stand up on it's own. I have an idea on how to make them stand up a different way, but I'll figure that out later since they aren't really an important part of the house (it's just to add to the atmosphere of the piece).

Tree1 Side1 (doesn't look too much like a tree, but maybe some kind of weird octopus?)
Side 2: It's reflecting the flash since it has some gold paint on it. Tree 2 Side 1, looks a lot better in person. Tree 2 Side 2- Tree for the "Haunted Mansion", looks more magical than haunted


So, that's everything I'm uploading now. I have some floor plans that I drew for each of the floors for the house, but since they aren't the final product, it seems kind of a waste to show them here at the moment. Tomorrow, I'm going to finish covering the front and back covers so I could get them out of the way before I tackle the interiors of the house. If something happens, and it takes me longer than I planned to finish, the last thing I would want to do is to sew up a book cover. I'm also afraid that my sewing machine is going to chew up the whole thing, so it's best to get that out of the way when I'm less stressed.



I would also like to leave you with this:



Another film I saw tonight, called "Baraka". It is simply the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It is a film that was made in 1992 that showed different cultures, animals, environments, religions, etc etc from around the world. Some parts are hard to watch, but the whole film is really moving. It is almost like "Planet Earth" except they obviously just don't show animals, and there is no dialogue whatsoever. Also, there are some songs that are sung by one of my favorite bands, Dead Can Dance-which I thought was ironic when they were playing one of their songs when they were showing remains in concentration camps in Auschwitz and in Cambodia. More info about the film here and here, if you like.