Tiny construction for Christmas
I meant to share this before the holiday but simply ran out of time. We decided, this year, that the best way to counteract our disgust over the excess of commercialism surrounding this beautiful holiday was to craft our own gifts for family. As we’re all active backyard birders, we first thought to make full-size bird houses but that idea was quickly cut down to size when we took a second look at the calendar.
Time wouldn’t allow it, so we went small, instead, making several of these unique little houses, using pallets for wood (that I dragged home months ago to make an enclosure for the compost pile, which I never got around to), scrap tin roofing we found on a hike (for the roofs and stars), and other objects and acrylic paints (mixing colors for the soft verdigris) we had around the place.
The project cost nothing but time, several hours of it, and it was great fun. Maggie the cat (in photo) oversaw the work, doing what cats do: finding the very middle of whatever we were into and choosing that spot to sit.
After this year of immersion in websites about ranch houses and green remodeling, I found myself thinking about many of you over the holiday, folks I’ve gotten acquainted with through your blog sites, and I wondered how you all were spending your time, perhaps taking a break from big projects to celebrate the little things, as we did, here. However you spent your Christmas (or Hannukah or Solstice) break, I hope it was peaceful, and full of beauty and joy.
