This is it. My happy place. Just looking at the picture makes me happy.
I haven’t felt very well the past few days, so I settled into the craft room and watched a lot of TV. And worked on a little gray Putz church. For me, that’s relaxing. The first order of business? Cut out the pattern pieces.
The white pieces are poster board, which I find at Wal-Mart in a package of half size sheets (14″x22″). The brown pieces are cut from a grocery box. Cracker and cereal boxes are a good weight for making Putz houses. As are Girl Scout Cookie boxes…
After cutting, the pieces are scored and folded.
The tabs are glued down. I put a bottom on this church because it has a bump out. If the building has a rectangular footprint, I leave the bottom off. But the bottom does give the bump out a lot of stability and that comes in handy when gluing it to the base later.
The steeple and steeple roof are folded and glued.
Next, I glued in the window panes. Should have painted the walls first…
The white glue is wet, so it sometimes warps the thin poster board. I use clothespins as clamps to hold things together until dry.
The painting is done.
Roofs are glued down. Don’t you love my Christmas scissors, BTW?
Putz houses are forgiving. Bits of glue or other minor flaws can be covered with “snow” later in the process.
Any white glue showing now, will dry clear and not show later.
I was glad to get back to Putzing today. Missed it the past few weeks as I’ve been very busy with other things. One of those things was a visit with my Dad. He was in the hospital for nine days a few weeks ago, but is doing well with his recovery. He will have gallbladder surgery in a few months. Your prayers on his behalf are much appreciated. It was good to see him! I also got to see three of my four sisters, one sister-in-law and both my brothers. We had a good time!
Tomorrow, I plan to build the base for the little gray church. When it’s dry, I’ll attach the church and a fence, and embellish the piece. I’m excited to get to that point! I never know which direction the embellishments will take. It’s always fun to find out!
~~Rhonda