Hands Craft | 84 Charing Cross Road

I finished the alleyway scene in two evenings and now I keep glancing at it on my shelf just to watch the little stroll past the bookstore. The laser-cut pieces fit together cleanly, though I did need tweezers for a couple of the smallest window frames.

The tiny secondhand bookstore sign and the little figures strolling the alleyway sold me the moment I opened the box. Took me a couple evenings to assemble and the wiring for the lamp was fiddly, but once it lit up on my shelf it looked like a real slice of London.

The little secondhand bookstore facade is my favorite part, right down to the tiny window displays. Fair warning though, the wiring for the LED took me a bit to figure out since the instructions are pretty sparse. Still, it looks lovely on the shelf next to my actual books.