Building a Faerie Door From Scrap Wood

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:30:00 -0400

This started with a scrap of plywood, a chunk of 2×4, and the perfectly reasonable urge to install a tiny blue door in a brick wall.

The door is carved into the plywood rather than built from separate planks. The stone surround and base are scrap softwood, hacked about until they looked sufficiently old and lumpy. Tiny basswood hinges, bits of dowel and styrene, a Christmas-decoration bell, and the end of a rock-candy stick supply the hardware. In other words: mostly offcuts, plus several objects that had no idea they were about to become architecture.

I Built a Logic Puzzle for Thorncroft Mysteries

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0400

The first Thorncroft Mysteries novel, Terror in Stone, is written. I’m now working through the self-publishing process, which turns out to contain rather more administration and rather fewer dramatic rooftop pursuits than the book.

2026s on CraftyManiac

Building a Faerie Door From Scrap Wood

I Built a Logic Puzzle for Thorncroft Mysteries