Success and Failure

It's a rainy day here in Tennessee so started to play around with some replacement window trim for the Summerhouse. The original pieces are all nice and painted and somewhere in a box in my daughter's garage so I thought it would be easy peasy to just make a couple of new ones out of cardboard. Well, I don't know if it was the full moon, my fingers, or my scissors but after several tries

I gave it up and went and played a computer game for awhile. It doesn't show in the picture, but they were pretty rough. So after thinking about it for awhile, decided to come at it from a different direction. So these are the first steps...

Set that aside to dry and want to tell you about a cool thing I saw online.

In fact, there were quite a few pictures of an octopus on a ship's wheel so I thought that might be cool to add to the Summerhouse.. After a delicious lunch INSIDE Chili's, went shopping IN Hobby Lobby! Wow did I miss that place! I found an octopus that I thought would work and brought him home with us. (He was also 50% off)

I used a small pair of nippers to cut the ring off the back. A few smears of 527 glue and a few clamps and we wait for the glue to dry!

Oooo! I am really liking this!

But Mr. Skellie has a few misgivings about having an octopus on board.

So as I was finishing up, he was having a long discussion with it about who the boss is around here...I have a feeling it's not me...next he'll want to drive the motorhome. So you know those cabinets up above the workbench? One of them is now craft storage! Woo! Hoo! So I found a place for all these things

and started getting the loose stuff off the bench to diminish what I need to put away when we want to go someplace.

So I will see you next time and I will sit here and watch paint dry! LOL!