Music room, continued

Apart from piano and oboe, a music room must of course have a CD player and masses of CDs. I had earlier made CDs for my modern house, so it was easy, but I had to find music that I believed Jane and I both liked.

I cut covers from a music magazine and pasted on a bit of card, double-sided. Of course it means that that there is a different cover on each side, but I paired them in an interesting way.

I made the CD player from bits of a 3D wooden puzzle. Yes, I realise that there is something profoundly wrong with the depth, but I don't care. The displays are cut from a catalogue, as it the remote. I built the shelf from wooden strip and wooden beads.

This is what the room looked like when it was finished. Guess whether Jane was surprised!

Music room

To tell the story of the music room box I first need to explain who I made it for and why, and the best way to do it is to go to my own blog. The box I made for Jane to say thank you was a combination of her music and sartorial interests.

To begin with, the box itself was a package from Phase Eight in which my pink jacket arrived. It took me some time to decide what wallpaper would be right, and eventually I had an epiphany: the paper bag from East. It had to be daring! I used a bit of paper flooring, but I left the ceiling as it was.

Then I put in a piano that I had had for some time, don't remember where it came from, and it was wrong scale, but it didn't teally matter here. I added a little table and a mirror - mirrors are always useful in miniature rooms.

I made an outfit that was almost exactly like the one Jane and I had bought and put it on a pink hanger. I also added some details: a clock (that I had before, made from a bottle cap) and a painting of our college, Homerton. I like such half-hidden messages: if you aren't from Homerton you won't know what building it is.

I made some music magazines and a magazine rack, from a broken necklace. I also did somethning I don't normally do: printed out some sheet music from the web. It's very hard to make sheet music in 1:12.

I had ordered an oboe from ebay. No way I could make an oboe that would feel satisfactory to give to an oboe player. And while I was waiting I kept adding to the room.