1/6 Scale Books and Brain Glitches

It's my first entry here.
But no.
As probably many, i had a journal here many years ago, and since then I didn't find a blogging place that feels like LJ. But that is the topic of another entry, I'm not going to make a proper introduction now.
I'm working on a 1/6 scale replica of Hedwig standing on some books, the books obviously the same scale. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's Harry Potter stuff. The man I'm dating likes to display his movies with figures and props, so I thought it was a good idea to make something nice for him. The plan is to make Hedwig in needle felting and sculpt the books in epoxy clay.
I was working happily stressed (as in every project) when it occurred to me that I should show him the progress, which was the initial sculpting of the clay blocks... (he does not know I'm making them for him) and his first reaction was: they are coming out perfect but that is not 1/6 scale...
Yeah, he has the superpower of noticing inaccuracies faster than flash running :/
I did not believe it, but then I checked the dimensions and my annotations, and (again :/ ) he was right, i made the books 1/4 scale, all my notes and measurements matched the 1/4 scale, but I swear I planned it to be 1/6 :(
Now, maybe this not much of a problem, but I'm going through really hard times in my life and I have always suffered from short memory loss, so this makes me think I'm getting worse..or something..
I don't know...
Here you can see the blocks in what I thought was 1/6 scale and in pencil how it should be... u_u

 

So I'm going to start over and post the updates here.. stay tuned..