The self-isolation requirements brought on by COVID-19 began wearing on me a few months ago. As an introvert, parties, etc. are not my thing but my husband and I still went out to dinner with friends, attended a weekly Bible study, went grocery shopping, etc. Now, we haven't been to a restaurant or grocery store since early March and our Bible study group has been cancelled. It didn't take long before restlessness set in with a vengeance. I decided that I needed to find a creative outlet outside of writing. As much as I love to write, it's a marathon, not a sprint, and I needed to find something sprint-worthy.
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| All I have to do is make these parts look like the picture... |
Facebook ads to the rescue! I signed up for a monthly kit club. Each month, I'll receive a kit for a different project. The variety of projects will let me try my hand at different things without making a long-time commitment to any of them. The first kit was for a decorative birdhouse. I'm fairly handy and can use a hammer with the best of them, but most of my projects are large. Working on something so small was going to be a bit of a challenge, but that's what this is all about - trying new things.
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| Making progress! |
When I'm trying something new I have a tendency to follow the directions to the letter and would have done the same this time if it weren't for my husband. He looked at the picture of the completed birdhouse and said "That's a lot of white. Why don't you change the color for some of it?" This was an excellent suggestion and we have quite a few sample-sized paints left from hubby's various projects. I decided to change the base and the trim for the roof to a light gray. Not much different from the original but I've always loved a pop of red against a gray or white.
The project is now complete and I have to say that I'm pretty pleased with it. 👍 My perfectionist tendencies mean that I see all all of the flaws but as my husband says, the flaws are what makes it unique. (He balances me well. 💕)
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| Ta-da! |
Next month: Inspirational magnets.
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