Birdhouses & Co.

 

 

 

Here are some photos of my new craft materials. I spent only 11 Euros for 7 wooden birdhouses, 3 vintage metall ads and brushes in a "1 Euro-shop". 
In the diy-shop I found 2 paint testers for my French houses and also some wallpaper stripes. I will use the wallpaper for boxes or little suitcases.......

Have a great sunday,
Sonja

French house part 6 - wood glue advice

The quality of my house is not very good.... before I can start with the frames I have to fill the spaces between windows/door and the wall.....

For this job I have created a "pasty bag" (a plastic bag with a small hole in one of the corners) so it is easierer to put the wood glue into the spaces.....(and you have also clean fingers!). The hole of the bottle is to big!!

Fill all holes/spaces with wood glue and let dry. If you have some glue on your windows/wall clean it before it is dry (with a wet (not to wet) kitchen paper. Use a wooden coffee stir (in Germany we have wooden ones at McDonalds) as a palette-knife.

Have a great day
Sonja

French House part 5 - window and door frames

 

 

baby boutique

 

Today I start with the window and door frames of my French house.....I use 1mm cardboard (for free from my local diy shop - flower department..).......
and for the windows I use the plastic package of IKEA x-mas ornaments.....the plastic is very strong..

I have also cardboard window and door frames in my baby boutique (photo 1).

Have a great day
Sonja

Circus giraffe and dogs

 

I have done some new toys for my shop. A giraffe and circus dogs with a trainer and a clown.
I really love all the vintage circus images. Now I have an elephant, a zebra, a camel.........

Have a great day
Sonja

French house part 4 - Facade update

Here is an update of my French house. Today I will paint the front door and the window frames.
Krin from the Netherlands was so kind to repair my blog! I am so happy!
Danke wel Krin.
Hug from Germany,
Sonja

Windows, Building material and a big blogspot problem

Here are some photos of my windows (before & after). I hope to finish my paint job in 1-2 days. The window box with geraniums is for my Dutch canel house...

 Today I spent € 2,20 for "building" materials. 2 x woooden earnings (perfect wheels) for 50 cent/each, camee earings for 1 € and some broken x-mas ornaments for 20 cent (not all of them are damaged) for ceiling roses or for an iron fence/balcony.

 Now I use the new blogspot design and I have a lot of problems! I use the enter key but blogspot write everything without a blankline!! I have no idea what I can do now...the whole post looks terrible..sorry. Any ideas what I can do???

 Have a great weekend - Sonja

French house - part 3 facade 1

Here are the first photos of the facade. It was not so easy to find the right colour scheme. I used cinnamon, white and a light blue (DIY paint tester
2 Euros/each). I was afraid to plaster the facade. The house has
a plywood facade and it looks not so "stable".

On the 2. photo you can see one of the sidewalls after I used my "dark oak wax stain". I think it looks a little bit like plaster. I will wax the whole house later.

Have a great day,
Sonja