Maker's Monday

 For today's maker's Monday,

I wanted to create something for

my one faux Christmas tree.

I purchased these wood circles

from Hobby Lobby and asked Bob

to drill a hole in the top for me.

Taking DecoArt Salted Caramel paint.

I painted the circles.

Then I chose these DecoColor Paint pens.

I wanted to paint some designs on my wood circles.

Can you guess what?

Well the yellow bled.

I was not a happy camper.

I wiped it off and re-painted the orange.

Again it bled. Ugh

So I went over this in black.

It will have to do...

but so disappointed in this yellow paint.

The black was perfect.

So I continued with my designs 

that I drew out just in the black.

This is our last name.

Am sure you know now what I am creating.

Well if not, these are meant to mimic

redware plates.

I did 3 designs and 3 words.

I painted 6 and did keep the messed up one.

Using this white and gold cording.

Tied at the top for an ornament.

Cannot wait to get these on

 my Christmas tree now.

Of all of my art classes I took...

I hated painting.

I would rather draw than paint,

so this was out of my comfort zone a bit.

Not perfection, but good enough for me.

In other news,

Early Sunday morning 

our security cameras at the store

caught someone walking around with 

a flashlight in the dark.

The time was 3:45am.

No it was not a ghost.

It looked to me like a police officer.

Bob thought it was a security guard

of some sort...

but why would a security guard be in our store?

Also why would anyone be in there?

Well Bob called the police to report it...

it turned out it was a police officer.

He spotted our side door open.

He went in and walked around to make

sure no one was in there,

plus to see if anything looked awry.

Upon finding nothing wrong,

he closed our door and left.

Bob goes out the front door,

but parks by the side one a bit farther back.

He swears it was shut.

I told him it was possible it might

have been not fully shut and with

the high winds last night, it opened.

We dont have a camera at that door,

because it goes into a little room

with another door that 

then goes into  the store.

However if  anyone else had come in 

we would have caught them too...

as that is where the camera is,

along with others all around the store.

Thankfully we have great police officers

in our town.

Bob thanked him many times.

Redware Blessings to all!

Janice