Proof of Roof!

I am sitting here patting myself on the back. I am so proud. I finished the roof! Honest! I did! OK. Here's the proof. Here's the back side. I had most of that done except for the cap the last time you saw it. The sheet of paper is so that you can't peek before the Grand Opening.

Next, the front side. I still need to do a few touch ups under the eaves and I found one stone that I somehow missed painting.

I also still need to re-do the sign. That's not a big job though. Cut it out. Glue it to a sheet of black card stock to match the roof cap. Cut that out about 1/16" from the edge of the book. Slap it on the front of the shop and that's done. I could have probably had that job finished in the time that it is taking me to type this.

So that you can see what I did for the roof cap, I included a close up of the top of one of the bays.



After I finished putting on the shingles I dug up a pair of those fancy scissors that they use for scrap booking. I found some black, textured heavy card stock and cut 3/4" strips. I trimmed one edge of each strip with the scissors. Then I edged the fancy part with a metallic gold pen.

The gold shows up better in real life than in the photo. I glued these strips to both sides of all of the roof peaks. Over that, I glued a strip of the almighty wood blind over the top edge. I made these meet in the middle and taped them until they were dry. After those dried, I painted some 1/16" square stock with gold paint and ran a piece down the middle and on the bottom edge of the wood strips.

I ran out of gold pen. I may still go back in and do a little fancy work on the skirting on the roof cap. This gives me an excuse for a trip to Wal-Mart or Michael's to buy a pen. I am sure that a few other things will just accidentally fall into my cart and I will have to pay for them too if they make it to the cash register. Sometimes I catch them and put them back. Sometimes I don't......

Anyway, that's about it for today.

See you tomorrow.