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The “big” project

// November 17th, 2008 // family

Okay, so I may have built this up too much, but I’m proud of it. You’ll still get a good laugh at how small of a project this was (especially when you see it finished), but it does add a nice touch and it sure let me put in a bit of my own creativity into Lyla’s room.

So like I said in a previous post, Jina felt the sign we put up on Lyla’s door wasn’t complete:

So I thought about it for all of 10 seconds and realized it needed something “tree-ish” to compliment the room which has a fairly heavy “tree” theme going on. Jina said she looked for stickers, but I thought I could find something else.

I was at Michael’s in an attempt to get back into building plastic models like I did when I was a kid, and so while I was there I browsed the other aisles looking for something to jump out at me. I knew what I wanted, just had to find it.

And there they were. Four little wooden trees that sort of matched what we had in the bedroom. So I bought some model paint, a few brushes and was ready to rock and roll:

I used a brown and flat black to mix the two and come up with the darker colored brown we have in the room. Mixed it all up and started painting! Here’s a shot of the first one:

The finished product:

And here is the big reveal…

So yeah, I’m awesome right?

I know, it’s not like I built the pyramids or hallowed out the Grand Canyon or anything like that, but it was a fun little touch, something I could do and it turned out pretty nice.

I did four trees, but the sign just looks a lot better with only one, so we’ll see if we can use the others somewhere else later on.