Stuffed Dog House

Last weekend a certain nine year old wanted to build his little sister a dog house for her stuffed dog.

He rounded up some 'additional help' and they discovered he didn't have enough raw product.

At least that's the way the 'additional help' - also known as #3 son, told the story.

So #3 son rounded up #1 dad, who located scraps of wood to make the toy dog house that the certain nine year old wanted to make for his little sister.  Got that?

A dog house is a pretty straight forward design, and I was not consulted in the least on this.  Probably for the best as I would have over complicated the job.

The completed dog house showed up on the dining room table with the instruction, "you can paint this if you want".

Well I wanted.

Some weathered gray stain went on the lat roof and the sides were painted with Fusion Mineral Paint in Champlain.  I watered the paint down so a bit of the wood grain would show through.

A few years ago I picked up a tote at a garage sale and immediately took the bird house front off of it.  I turned the tote into a dog dish holder and saved the little bird houses knowing I would never use them but couldn't bring myself to throw them out.

I found a use for one of them, to my surprise.

Other than the bird hole on the front, I thought it looked like a dog house, so I cut it off with the saw just above tweetey's window and recycled the top half which made me feel better about not throwing it away 2 years ago.

The angle of that little roof line didn't afford me space to stencil, so I printed out the words on regular printer paper, covered them with package tape and tacked it on.

The dog treat jar provided a real dog biscuit that I painted in coal black with Fusion Mineral Paint, and some E600 squeezed on the back glued it in place.

My thumb and pinky finger dipped in paint made something that looks similar to paw prints on the front of the dog house.

An empty metal paprika spice tin was turned into the dog food container.

Complete with tiny dog treats and bits of kibble.

The pretend ingredients are listed on one side.

The five year old princess received a kitten last Fall, so the dog food container also reads  "Keep away from cats".

I guess I should of painted NO CATS ALLOWED on the side of the dog house because as soon as it hit the floor an orange tiger made herself at home.

Not that she can read or anything.

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