Okay, now I may be just bragging:
Look, Ma, I painted this cute little birdhouse all by myself!
This church-shaped birdhouse was a gift for an elderly friend, made following a pattern in Making & Painting Victorian Birdhouses
My friend’s son did the woodworking and I did the painting.
It was the first time I ever painted something as small as those tiny little flowers that climb up in front of the stained-glass windows. My hands really were shaking!
But it was just so much fun to make something like this, myself, at home!
And a very frugal gift, too, as well as a very personal one.
Some of the hardware stores have blank wooden shapes for decorative painting that would be fun to play with if you don’t know anyone who likes to make little objects out of wood.
I painted a smiling little bee for a sign this summer. There’s a picture of it somewhere around here… I’ll post it later if I can find it…
The church birdhouse has a coat of clear weather-proofing stuff on it, but my friend thought it was too pretty to put outdoors so she keeps it on display on a wide windowsill in her apartment.
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