Craft Time / My Wooden Snowman sitters

 This is the time of the year that I start putting my focus on my crafts

❤  The pictures above is a row of wooden snowman sitters that me and my brother Eddie finished building. They are about a foot tall and around 2 inches wide. I painting each sign the snowman was holding a little different. Once the paint was dry... I coated them with wood glaze to seal them. They are super cute and super country. Such a great little shelf sitter.

The Snowman Arms

❤  Now this snowman is "our own pattern." Most wood projects that you find call for the arms of the snowman to be made with dowel rods or tree limbs but the bad part of that is... they always break when people pack them up from year to year. So this year we decided to try a version where we made the arms with large pipe cleaners. In fact I twisted 2 large black pipe cleaners together to shape the arms and it worked out great! Pipe cleaners are bendable wire so they wont break... hence it will be safe when packed.

What I like about the Snowman

❤  Snowmen are notorious for representing Christmas but this year I wanted to create a few snowman that could be used for Christmas and then left out for a Winter decoration too. So I decided not to put anything red or green on some of the snowmen. I painted those in black, white, gray and silver colors.

The worst part of the project

❤  The hardest part of the project was doing the wooden nose on the snowman. I didn't enjoy doing the carrot noses at all. LOL~ You have to drill a hole in the body of the snowman, then put wood blue inside the small little hole. (those of you that work with wood glue will know the drama that can occur when you trying to fill a small hole with sticky stringy glue and not touch anything else with glue. ) Ha! Clean-up sucks. 

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If you want to see more of my crafty posts... 

👀  you can find them in the right hand column of the blog here titled " Craft Time". This is in the "Popular Topics" section.  As I do a craft I will put it here to share with everyone.  Maybe you can get some crafty ideas from me. ~wink

👀  If you would like to see a video of me painting these snowmen I will put the links here:

• Part 1 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-1-painting-snowman-shelf-sitter.html
• Part 2 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-2-painting-wooden-snowman-shelf.html
• Part 3 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-3-watch-me-paint-wooden-sign-for.html

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In Closing.....

❤  I think we need to make life as fun as we can and snowmen have long been a favorite character of mine. So anytime you can incorporate something you love in your work make your work more enjoyable. Happy Crafting everyone... and Happy Holidays too. Love Pam

My January Painting Hobby

There's nothing more relaxing to me than finding myself a fun paint project. 

Painting has been a hobby of mine for as long as I can remember. So... in honor of January being National Hobby Month I thought it would be fun to share one of my latest projects I've been working on.

The picture to my left is a sweet little child's bench that my oldest brother built. Sometimes I pick out things to paint from his collection of woodworking projects and see what I can come up with. This week I felt bird-ish so I decided to paint a cute little owl theme on the back of the bench. I like to use my fingers a lot when I paint because they work just as good as a paintbrush. ha ha! Go Finger Painting! Snicker~ So I did just that with this little project too.

On the seat of the bench I painted the words "SIT WITH ME". A simple choice I know but words that I think an owl would say if he could talk. ha ha! 

Now on the legs I decided to go with the old splatter paint style. Yep I just slung paint on the legs and stood back and thought "I love to splatter paint." If you look at the picture to my left you can see how I splattered the legs. Not to heavy.... just a light splatter and it seems to go good with the rest of the bench. 

After the paint was all dry I sealed the wood with a really high shine gloss because kids can be pretty rough on things and it would help to protect the painted picture for yearssss. I think it will be a good keep sake for someone.

Owls are a favorite of mine so I had a really good time painting this. I'm also working on a butterfly bench that maybe I will share a picture of at a later time.

Ok guys.... In honor of National Hobby Month I hope everyone who reads this will leave a note in the comment section about what your hobbies are. I know there are lots of you that loves to paint just like me so let me know. 

Other hobbies of mine are:
woodworking, wood burning, ornament making, wreath makings, cooking, gardening, blogging, calligraphy writing, picture taking, pine cone crafts, nature watching, hiking, boating, swimming, bird watching, walking, camping, fish keeping, jigsaw puzzles, baking

In Closing:
Happy National Hobby Month everyone! I hope you set a side some time this month to relax and enjoy your favorite hobbies and "Live Everyday like a Holiday."
Take Care Pam

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