Your game board and tangrams are so cute!!! What a brilliant idea! I never would have thought of doing something like that. I've considered making jigsaw puzzles before, out of those ready-cut blank puzzles you can buy at craft stores.
Stain is fun! Fumes really aren't bad. Maybe if you go to Lowes or somewhere like it, you can ask them for something not too smelly, and maybe they'll even open a can for you to catch a whiff. Plus, you can always just get water-based stain which isn't fumy at all (I think). It's just a little less lustrous, I think, and you have to do more sanding.
I was in love with book!Enjolras first, not having seen or heard the musical until after the book (on purpose - I've always been so totally spoiler-phobic!) I've never had a very in-depth fannish tour, but I have been to Javert's bridge (the closest I could tell from reading), the Luxembourg gardens, the sewers (there's a tour and museum!), Victor Hugo's house/museum, and the Musee' Carnavalet (Museum of the History of Paris) with my best friend, whose favorite book is also Les Miserables. It was wonderful. In the Carnavalet, we were so tired and slap-happy that at one point, we just sat and stared at a big painting of a revolt in Paris and picked out who the characters were - "That one must be Javert - he's wearing clothes like the students but he looks older and sneaky" and what they were saying to each other - "Hey, he's shooting the wrong way!" or "Will you get my water bottle out of my backpack?" We also sat in a cafe and saw road work being done outside, with little orange barriers set up, and said, "Look, they're building barricades! Ha ha, no one will get through this street now!"
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Stain is fun! Fumes really aren't bad. Maybe if you go to Lowes or somewhere like it, you can ask them for something not too smelly, and maybe they'll even open a can for you to catch a whiff. Plus, you can always just get water-based stain which isn't fumy at all (I think). It's just a little less lustrous, I think, and you have to do more sanding.
I was in love with book!Enjolras first, not having seen or heard the musical until after the book (on purpose - I've always been so totally spoiler-phobic!) I've never had a very in-depth fannish tour, but I have been to Javert's bridge (the closest I could tell from reading), the Luxembourg gardens, the sewers (there's a tour and museum!), Victor Hugo's house/museum, and the Musee' Carnavalet (Museum of the History of Paris) with my best friend, whose favorite book is also Les Miserables. It was wonderful. In the Carnavalet, we were so tired and slap-happy that at one point, we just sat and stared at a big painting of a revolt in Paris and picked out who the characters were - "That one must be Javert - he's wearing clothes like the students but he looks older and sneaky" and what they were saying to each other - "Hey, he's shooting the wrong way!" or "Will you get my water bottle out of my backpack?" We also sat in a cafe and saw road work being done outside, with little orange barriers set up, and said, "Look, they're building barricades! Ha ha, no one will get through this street now!"