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A Private Park

Public parks are wonderful places to visit, but wouldn't visiting a park of your very own, just outside your front door, be even better? Time to redecorate the upstairs patio of my dollhouse!  To make the palm tree, I followed the instructions in the YouTube video below, ... ... with a few modifications here and there (as usual). Perhaps most noticeably, I decided to wrap the paper trunk in yarn, specifically Red Heart Super Saver Solids yarn in the color Dark Brown. With tacky glue I anchored one yarn end to the base and, very slowly and carefully, worked my way up to the top.  For the planter, I cut a leftover piece of Styrofoam packaging into a rectangular hollowed-out box, then attached 2 popsicle sticks to the top of the box and 5 to the front, respectively, with tacky glue.    For each drinking fountain, I started with the same type of plastic cylindrical spacer I had used for my miniature smart speaker. To one end of the spacer I superglued a pi...