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My hunny and I already painted the trim
around the windows on the south side of the house,
and were getting started sprucing up the garden area when we got hit
with our recent rainy spell.  

After the storms we noticed that the birdhouse tower I built some 15 years ago
was looking extremely weathered, and either needed to be repaired
or used for kindling next winter!

When I built it, it was supposed to look a bit weathered,
but now it was wobbly and and the birdhouse was rotting,
 loosing it's roof and about to fall off the top.

My first inclination was "kindling"! 
But hunny said he would try fixing it up.
Well... he got started on it and it didn't take long at all for me to take over, Ha!
After all, if this thing was gona last for another 15 years,
it needed to be fixed up "right", you know what I mean?

Now I know hunny really meant well... but I could tell that the way he was going, that it would be falling down in no time at all. 
Don't get me wrong
 there are some things he's great at, especially if you're in a hurry. But me, I like to take my time and do a good job on things and not cut corners.
(well most the time anyway).


Hmmm, now where was I?...

Oh yah...

Below is a photo of the garden area I posted back in May of 2009

showing the tower in it's "before" condition (only better).

I removed the birdhouse from the top. 
The wood is too rotted to repair...

It just so happened, that I had another birdhouse laying around that was a perfect fit to go on the top!  If it hadn't been for that, I probably wouldn't have bothered trying to fix it up because I wasn't up to building another birdhouse this time around...

I replaced several of the the cross pieces that were in bad shape
and added some more across the top.
In fact, don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.
I drilled pilot holes and added screws to stabilize it. 

Now... I was also no longer into the weathered unfinished look on it,
plus the replacement birdhouse didn't match the rest of the wood. 
So it was time to get the paint and paintbrush out again.

I don't know why but
I've really been on a "paint everything white" frenzy lately!

Bad photo... but here it is all freshly painted! 

It seemed just a bit too plain though... 

So to add a bit of pizazz I thought a cute sign to hang might just be the ticket.

So...

I found this cute image at the "Graphics Fairy". 

The colors were a bit too bold so I did a bit of magic with it on my photo editor 

then added the "Home Tweet Home" verse.

Now to frame and hang it,

I used a wood frame from the Dollar Store that I already had on hand.

I drilled a couple of holes in the frame to pull the ribbon through,

and painted it to match.

I tied knots in the ribbon to hold it in place,
and used a thumb tack to attach it to the tower.
Then printed and inserted the birdie print.

I really love how it all turned out,

and I'm glad I decided to give it a new life.

If I was a birdy I think I would happy to make it

"my"

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Well friends,  I've gotta fly for now...

So glad you could drop in for a visit,

Please come back again any 'ol time!

Every birdies welcome;)

~SHERRI~

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