The Works – Decorated Wooden House ……. A Work In Progress

I have to admit I’m not all that keen on this decorated, wooden house, it’s just a bit too much and twee, something ain’t right!

The house (which I varnished before I did anything to it) came from The Works last autumn when they were selling off all their wooden craft bits for half price, so this house was reduced from £2 to £1. Needless to say, I stocked up with a few, but have since been stuck with ideas on how to use them, originally, I was thinking more of a wintery gingerbread house than spring cottage.

However, after colouring the roof red, I decided to marry one house up with some spring themed, wooden embellishments, also from The Works (£1 for a pack of 6), which I also varnished beforehand to prevent any ink bleeding into the wood from the various coloured Sharpie pens I planned to use.

There was a butterfly in amongst the flowers that I didn’t like, so I found some small, wooden butterflies which I coloured and then glued over the original one, which added a little extra dimension.  I also put tiny nail art flowers in the middle of the flowers too.

I quite liked the house at this stage …… and perhaps should have left it at that, but of course I had to fiddle fart with it some more.

Now, while putting this post together and looking at it with fresh eyes through the pictures, I can see that it’s the bird and branches that are out of proportion and throwing everything else out of kilter. I should have simply just put two, possibly three (?) of the yellow butterflies, above the window and on the back instead, doh!

Unfortunately, as they have been glued on with E-7000, it might not work, but I think I am going to try to remove them in an effort to correct the scale and see how the butterflies work ……. fingers crossed!