1. I got all the scenes engineered!

2. Went back and made all the Puck variations smaller, and gave him wings.

3. Eliminated the fold-up Palladian window – I couldn’t get it to deploy properly.

4. Made all the leaf wings and drops lighter and more delicate, and less saturated.

5. Changed the show curtain from red to green.

6. Worried for a long time about the lack of all the cool moveables I’d put in At The Flea Circus. Midsummer is full of transformations, but there doesn’t seem to be much actual movement in it. Perhaps this will evolve as I do the next trial version.

7. Grateful beyond belief that the characters in Midsummer only have two legs, unlike Flea Circus. Much easier to cut out!

8. Had a giant crisis of conscience about using images of old marionettes for the characters rather than doing my own. I’m that saddest of all artists: an artist who can’t draw. I had just enough to get by in costume design, but I haven’t put pencil to paper in five years. I felt awful, but I had a dish of ice cream and the feeling passed.

9. Still worried about the colors being too loud for a miniature books. Dollhouses are that way, too, I think. Colors have to be toned WAY down.

10. . . . and tomorrow is another day.

(PS: I’ve decided to go to the Miniature Books Society Conclave in Asheville, NC this fall!)