More Window Boxes!

Slash was very impressed with the first window box and the rest of the minions loved the colors of the flowers. The flowers actually took their attention away from all the baked goods in the window for a few minutes anyway! LOL! So I was inspired to start the remaining 3. This time, I decided to do all the cutting, glueing, and painting production style. I started by cutting each of the base and side pieces

and glueing them together.

They dried quickly and I glued each set to the back of each piece of plastic fencing.

I knew this would take a little longer to dry, so pulled out the parts for the fart gun I was thinking about. This started as a small plastic trumpet that I had in my stash.

I had used the mouthpiece as part of a hookah for Sherlock awhile back.

I thought I could use nail polish remover to take the gold finish off of the plastic, but it just removed the gold color and I still had a shiny silver finish left. So I used a piece of fine sandpaper and lightly sanded it all over, then used some black spray paint on it.

I know, forgot my glove again! LOL! Now it's time to let the paint dry and go back to the window boxes. I brushed black acrylic paint on the wooden parts and set them aside to dry.

Tomorrow we will add the moss and flowers and glue them to the building! Have a great evening!

Shutters and Window Boxes...

I'd been thinking about Slash's idea of window boxes. Kept me awake last night so there I was digging through my stash at 1 AM trying to find something unusual that would work. Came up empty and gave up and went back to bed. Started this morning working on the remaining shutters; more sanding, painting, and glueing. But it's coming together nicely.

Then I got an idea. I dug out a couple of pieces of plastic fencing and started playing around with them.

I got out my little wire cutters and started cutting away the pieces I didn't want. This is what I ended up with

and I tried them out on the little building.

I think I'm onto something! I cut some pieces of wooden stir stick to box in the back, glued it together

and painted it black. I cut a piece of sheet moss and glued it to the back, then glued it onto the building.

Of course, there was alot of drying time in between these steps so spent some time thinking about building a for-real fart gun for the minions....:) More to come on that one! LOL! While the glue was drying, (why do I feel like I've said that before...) I went through my ziploc bags of fake flowers to find something for the window boxes that the minions would like.

Yellow with a touch of blue seemed just right.

Now I just have three more to build....Have a great evening!