Last evening I decided to try and make a plain chair for Santa to sit on at the drop lead table I made.
Sounds simple? Not.
Like a true newbie I watched a You Tube video of someone doing just that. This beautifully manicure pair of hands cut and stuck Terrie tint wee bit of wood together and Piff Paff Poof a miniature chair was made.
I assembled my coffee stirrers and my toothpicks and my new wood glue. I even had a chair I had bought for comparison. So I cut and stuck and the legs slid off and the seat curled and then the legs slid off again. After much chuntering (possible Scots word for bland cursing) I got 4 legs to stick.
Remembering to breathe, I went out to stop me constantly checking if they had stuck!
I returned and they had stuck! Unfortunately all my careful (obviously not so careful) measuring meant the front legs were too long. So again remembering to breathe and not curse, I decided to cut and restick them. But of course they didn’t want to come off , did they?
I wrestled them to the floor and cut a tiny bit off ( note the continued accuracy of my measuring skills). Once again the legs slid off continually despite my attempts to glue on pieces to keep them in place. Every time I got one piece in place another piece slid determinedly down and out of place.
By this time my finger and tweezers were gummed up with excess glue. Every time I tried to let go a piece it would stay on the top of my hand.
Eventually I beat the pieces into submission and have a chair!
A very valuable lesson has been learnt however about You Tube. The one they film is not their first attempt to do it, they are fantastic experts by the time they film it. And if you are good at something it looks so simple until you try.
So I love watching them but need to practice more .
Which one do you think I bought.
So easy. 😂😂😊
But of course
Making miniatures for fun 