Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢
@melaniefletcher.bsky.social
Author of A Most Malicious Murder, Random Realities, and Sabre Dance. Wrangler of cats. Tired person. Writes romance as Nicola M. Cameron.
find and install an appropriate hanging light on the balcony ceiling, add handles to the front and balcony doors, and build a weather vane for the tower roof. But the roof is shingled, stained, and weathered, and all the trim is on, which is what really matters.
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
find and install an appropriate hanging light on the balcony ceiling, add handles to the front and balcony doors, and build a weather vane for the tower roof. But the roof is shingled, stained, and weathered, and all the trim is on, which is what really matters.
And the exterior is officially 99.9% done. I still have to cut, paint, and install some trim along the dormers (which has to wait until they're glued in because I need to remove them while I'm working on the bathroom and writer's office), install the lantern lights next to the front door...
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And the exterior is officially 99.9% done. I still have to cut, paint, and install some trim along the dormers (which has to wait until they're glued in because I need to remove them while I'm working on the bathroom and writer's office), install the lantern lights next to the front door...
The empty attic space needed its own decor as well. I sized various acanthus triangular decorations to fit the gable spaces and the area around the oval window, then designed fish scale shingles (a very period detail for PLs) that I could 3D print in strips and added those to the attic wall.
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The empty attic space needed its own decor as well. I sized various acanthus triangular decorations to fit the gable spaces and the area around the oval window, then designed fish scale shingles (a very period detail for PLs) that I could 3D print in strips and added those to the attic wall.
I continued to go through the architectural files and kept finding all kinds of bits that would look fantastic on the house, like little drooping acanthus leaves that fit in the borders I added to the column plinths on the porches when I designed my own porch and balcony trim.
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I continued to go through the architectural files and kept finding all kinds of bits that would look fantastic on the house, like little drooping acanthus leaves that fit in the borders I added to the column plinths on the porches when I designed my own porch and balcony trim.
The result has been stunning so far, especially with the "stained glass" windows (done with vinyl cut on a Silhouette cutter and glass paint). Lyndon took a look at it once I got the window decor and said wistfully, "I want to live in that."
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The result has been stunning so far, especially with the "stained glass" windows (done with vinyl cut on a Silhouette cutter and glass paint). Lyndon took a look at it once I got the window decor and said wistfully, "I want to live in that."
As Lyndon said, real Painted Lady owners were shown a wide variety of potential elements that could be added to their house exterior and said, "Yes." PLs are ELABORATE. And now that I could print architectural elements in scale, I could make my Painted Lady as elaborate as I liked.
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
As Lyndon said, real Painted Lady owners were shown a wide variety of potential elements that could be added to their house exterior and said, "Yes." PLs are ELABORATE. And now that I could print architectural elements in scale, I could make my Painted Lady as elaborate as I liked.
And then Lyndon bought me a Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D printer in January. I had fun printing things like shower stalls and apothecary cabinets for the house.
And then I found a pack of 1026 architectural and furniture elements on Etsy in STL format and snapped it up. Hoo boy.
And then I found a pack of 1026 architectural and furniture elements on Etsy in STL format and snapped it up. Hoo boy.
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And then Lyndon bought me a Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D printer in January. I had fun printing things like shower stalls and apothecary cabinets for the house.
And then I found a pack of 1026 architectural and furniture elements on Etsy in STL format and snapped it up. Hoo boy.
And then I found a pack of 1026 architectural and furniture elements on Etsy in STL format and snapped it up. Hoo boy.
So I've been keeping sane by working on my dollhouse, a Painted Lady Victorian that's been sitting in the craft room since 2010. After the election I kicked into high gear to finish the outside (95% finished—all I need to do is finish shingling the roof and stain the shingles) and wire the inside.
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So I've been keeping sane by working on my dollhouse, a Painted Lady Victorian that's been sitting in the craft room since 2010. After the election I kicked into high gear to finish the outside (95% finished—all I need to do is finish shingling the roof and stain the shingles) and wire the inside.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! #christmas
December 25, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! #christmas
Love mysteries or alternate history? In A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, the year is 1851 and Edgar Allan Poe is touring England when he's implicated in a murder at Oxford and must recruit undergraduate Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) to help him find the real killer. www.amazon.com/dp/B09C1SWK2W
December 11, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Love mysteries or alternate history? In A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, the year is 1851 and Edgar Allan Poe is touring England when he's implicated in a murder at Oxford and must recruit undergraduate Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) to help him find the real killer. www.amazon.com/dp/B09C1SWK2W
I also get to make more miniature food (this is with FIMO polymer clay) once I have the kitchen set up.
December 11, 2024 at 9:40 PM
I also get to make more miniature food (this is with FIMO polymer clay) once I have the kitchen set up.
I may have gone a little overboard with the 3D printer. But it’s so much fun printing dollhouse furniture!
December 11, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I may have gone a little overboard with the 3D printer. But it’s so much fun printing dollhouse furniture!
My cousins had the best toys. A fantastic pool, a really cool cowboy and cowgirl action figure with tons of accessories, and Astrolite. If there was ever a toy that made me want to become a science fiction writer, Astrolite was it. I would spend hours at their house making futuristic cities with it.
November 26, 2024 at 6:12 PM
My cousins had the best toys. A fantastic pool, a really cool cowboy and cowgirl action figure with tons of accessories, and Astrolite. If there was ever a toy that made me want to become a science fiction writer, Astrolite was it. I would spend hours at their house making futuristic cities with it.
7) Painted the outdoor window frames and installed them.
8) Painted all the fancy trim you expect from a Painted Lady and glued it on. Discovered in the process that there were some positioning issues here and there which required clever trimming.
9) Glued together the tower roof and painted it.
8) Painted all the fancy trim you expect from a Painted Lady and glued it on. Discovered in the process that there were some positioning issues here and there which required clever trimming.
9) Glued together the tower roof and painted it.
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 AM
7) Painted the outdoor window frames and installed them.
8) Painted all the fancy trim you expect from a Painted Lady and glued it on. Discovered in the process that there were some positioning issues here and there which required clever trimming.
9) Glued together the tower roof and painted it.
8) Painted all the fancy trim you expect from a Painted Lady and glued it on. Discovered in the process that there were some positioning issues here and there which required clever trimming.
9) Glued together the tower roof and painted it.
4) Made custom stained glass windows for the dormers.
5) Cut wider openings for a front door with sidelights and French window-style double doors for the balcony. Luckily I already had them in my miniatures stash.
6) Glued together 30 sets of window frames for 15 windows. Oof. So much gluing.
5) Cut wider openings for a front door with sidelights and French window-style double doors for the balcony. Luckily I already had them in my miniatures stash.
6) Glued together 30 sets of window frames for 15 windows. Oof. So much gluing.
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 AM
4) Made custom stained glass windows for the dormers.
5) Cut wider openings for a front door with sidelights and French window-style double doors for the balcony. Luckily I already had them in my miniatures stash.
6) Glued together 30 sets of window frames for 15 windows. Oof. So much gluing.
5) Cut wider openings for a front door with sidelights and French window-style double doors for the balcony. Luckily I already had them in my miniatures stash.
6) Glued together 30 sets of window frames for 15 windows. Oof. So much gluing.
So I've been working on the dollhouse this week and I've got a lot of stuff done on it.
1) Got e-slots cut for the electrical wiring and installed the main loop that will receice extensions to the rest of the house.
2) Glued on kneewalls and the main/gable roofs.
3) Glued on the tower walls.
1) Got e-slots cut for the electrical wiring and installed the main loop that will receice extensions to the rest of the house.
2) Glued on kneewalls and the main/gable roofs.
3) Glued on the tower walls.
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 AM
So I've been working on the dollhouse this week and I've got a lot of stuff done on it.
1) Got e-slots cut for the electrical wiring and installed the main loop that will receice extensions to the rest of the house.
2) Glued on kneewalls and the main/gable roofs.
3) Glued on the tower walls.
1) Got e-slots cut for the electrical wiring and installed the main loop that will receice extensions to the rest of the house.
2) Glued on kneewalls and the main/gable roofs.
3) Glued on the tower walls.
The work in progress.
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 AM
The work in progress.
That cancelled tv show that you’ll never stop thinking about.
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 AM
That cancelled tv show that you’ll never stop thinking about.
*opens Bluesky* Ah. People.
Heya—I'm Melanie Fletcher, I write primarily SF, my first book is an alternate history mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll called A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, and I like cheese. I also write romantasy as Nicola M. Cameron because hey, who needs sleep?
Heya—I'm Melanie Fletcher, I write primarily SF, my first book is an alternate history mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll called A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, and I like cheese. I also write romantasy as Nicola M. Cameron because hey, who needs sleep?
November 11, 2024 at 1:47 AM
*opens Bluesky* Ah. People.
Heya—I'm Melanie Fletcher, I write primarily SF, my first book is an alternate history mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll called A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, and I like cheese. I also write romantasy as Nicola M. Cameron because hey, who needs sleep?
Heya—I'm Melanie Fletcher, I write primarily SF, my first book is an alternate history mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll called A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, and I like cheese. I also write romantasy as Nicola M. Cameron because hey, who needs sleep?
Okay, first post here and hopefully this will turn out to be a stable replacement for Twitter. Fingers crossed. Also, have a picture of my cat.
August 19, 2023 at 1:10 AM
Okay, first post here and hopefully this will turn out to be a stable replacement for Twitter. Fingers crossed. Also, have a picture of my cat.