One problem I’ve been mulling over how to fix is the fact that the MDF anchors are distinctly ugly. I’m currently looking into painting them using black vinyl emulsion to help hide any aesthetic issues.

Another big success this week was constructing the “cabinet”. I’m not sure why I’m still calling it a cabinet, as it lacks doors. It is simply shelving. Regardless, that is finished, and will house the projector, models & books from the project. There were not any major problems during construction - a minor one was encountered when I had to jury-rig a support to ensure that one of the shelves was attached at the correct height. Rather than do any fancy wood joints, I ended up just screwing the MDF boards together. Quick, painless. Then I painted it all white.

Last big thing that happened was that I finally got one of the four books bound - the scrapbook. The original plan was to bind using glue, however that would not be possible due to the lack of available surface area on the leaves, so I turned to bind with string instead. Although I was quite insistent on using pink or purple ribbon, Katie (the tutor) was quite insistent that I didn’t. She did not feel that it was in keeping with the overall aesthetic. I still think that the ribbon provided some much needed colour to the book, and I like colour coding things. We’ll see. In the end we called a truce, and I used white string.