Nag, Nag, Nag!!!

Tessie wants all of the vignettes for the Tree Party finished NOW. I am running out of furniture to use without robbing other scenes.

I dug into the drawer that has the unfinished Michael's cabinets and found that I only had four left and three of them were the same.

Everybody uses these and makes them fancy in different ways.

I just grabbed a few "Tiny Turnings", some laser cut corner brackets and a few beads. I got lucky. One of the strips of tiny turnings when cut in a certain place, fit perfectly in the scalloped area of the doors. I just cut them off with an exacto knife and glued them in with fast grab.

Then I improvised feet and a top crown with six of the corner brackets. I lined the front feet up with the lines of the cabinet above, not the outer decorative bottom. Then I turned two of them back to back for the top.

Pretty simple build. I put a couple of fan pieces at the bottom and stained the whole thing with Minwax Early American stain.

Last step was to put beads on for the knobs of the drawers and doors.

I will go back and do some finishing work. I still need to put on a coat or two of varnish.

It's too bad that the people that put these together aren't a little more careful with the glue. I am going to have to do some work on the bottom corners of where the drawer is. Maybe I can get Spike to sit in front of one of the spots and put a potted plant on the other side.... I now have furniture for another vignette.

It was a fast project that made Tessie happy. Now I am free to go bake Christmas cookies and fudge.....I wonder if I could put off the laundry for another day? Who needs clean clothes anyway?

See you tomorrow.