In The Eye Of The Beholder

From The Ridiculous To The Sublime

Dear Readers, I hope you will forgive me if I take you on a small detour on our way to visit the little Cottage that is my current project. This detour will take you, briefly, to my workplace where some new equipment was installed yesterday morning. After the technician had finished the installation and had cleaned up the mess and left, I glanced down at the floor beside my desk and noticed that he had left behind some pieces of the protective wrappings that came with the equipment. This is what I saw........

Do YOU see what I see??? Do You?????

I held them up for my co-worker and she immediately said "Those look like little chairs!"
"That's EXACTLY what I thought!" I replied. I couldn't bring myself to THROW them away, so I set them on a table near the door, just curious whether anyone else would also see them as mini chairs.

The next person to come into the office was my BOSS... he took one look at them and said..... "Those look like little chairs!" And laughing, he put them on MY desk and said "Do you have any little people to put in them?" "You should check in that box of toys you have.....!" (A box of toys that once belonged to my boys and now lives in the office to entertain any children who come with their parents...) And he pulled it out and found the little stuffed lion........! I dug a little deeper and found the construction guy....! They make me SMILE every time I look at them!

Now that we have visited with the Ridiculous, we can move on to the (hopefully) Sublime part of this post! I have been working on the little Cottage and made some good progress last weekend. The basic house is finished except for the Dreaded Shingles. I also want to attach it to a base before I send it to it's new owner. So you can see there is still a bit to do before I can call it done. But I think it is looking very sweet with the window box and the seats on the front porch......

And you can see I added a lovely doorknob to the front door.....

And because I just couldn't leave them the way the kit was made, I added vertical dividers to the large bay windows on the downstairs....... the windows just looked too Modern to my eye without the dividers. Here you can see the outside of the bay window on one side......

And here you can see the inside of the front window where I also added the vertical dividers.....

And for the front door I made "strap" hinges out of black leather glued in place. The wood of this kit is much too thin to use actual metal hinges with screws.... so I have improvised..... the leather is strong and flexible and looks rather good in MY eyes!

And for the bay window opening I have added a window seat or bench or deep window sill..... whichever you think you want to call it! It is a bit narrow to actually be a SEAT, but I think it LOOKS good and could hold a cushion or flower pots. The little corner shelf is a piece that came with the kit..... it included some VERY rudimentary pieces of furniture which I have assembled and painted.

Here you can see one of a pair of settles.......

And a better view of the whole Cottage with the rest of the furniture in place. Downstairs is a table and two settles and the corner cupboard......

And upstairs is a bed and a small bench........

I have painted them the same sky blue as the ceiling downstairs and upstairs as well........

And, of course, if you have cherubs flying around on your Downstairs ceiling, you can hardly avoid having them on the UPSTAIRS ceiling as well!

Here is a closer view of the roof panel ceiling before it was installed......

I wonder what he is seeing, don't you?

Maybe he is thinking about what a sweet little room this is....

Or maybe all he sees is his sleeping friend.....

She looks to ME like she is Dreaming Very Sweet Dreams!


But perhaps it is ALL just in the Eye of the Beholder!