Stupid Shingles...

You shoulda seen me doing the happy dance! Woo Who! I'm done with the shingles!!



I know! It's not very pretty, and I'm sure there has to be a better, easy way to do the corners.....but I figured I better finish them they way I started them.



See, this is the other corner, it doesn't look too bad once it gets the final stain....

Ta-Da! A shingled house!



Now to figure out how to support those corners. I swear if you look at it the wrong way those corners shingles will fall right off.



I thought about flipping the house over and filling the whole underneath with paperclay........Any body have a better suggestion before I go messing things up?

I Hate When That Happens!

Do you ever get into a project, to only realize, there at the very end, that you don't have enough to finish what you've started??? Yup! I ran out of shingles!! Ugggg! I only need about 30 more.......guess I'll have to wait till I can order another pack....Darn it, I was on a roll!! Of course I decided not to listen to the bf, and started shingling from the inside out. (What? I wanted it even on both sides!) He had warned me....I know.....But, you know me, I gotta try it the hard way once, sometimes twice, lol! I still have to go back and add a little more stain to where I made fresh cuts. And I have to reinforce that corner. I swear, it looks like you could blow it away. (It's glued pretty good, but I don't think it will stand a chance to Otis.) I thought about putting Ivy, or something, up the sides..and then I could cover up the mess I've made outta that corner. I dunno.......I'm sure by the time I order more shingles, I'll figure it out!

Katie's Corner Gets a Roof!!

I know, I know......I'm suppose to be painting a castle...........Haha......Well, I got side tracked.......and I'll blame it on Casey. Every time she does a roof, I tell myself I need to do mine. One, I've been waiting for it to warm up a little...and 2, well, I'm just a procrastinator! LOL!! I've had everything to do it, I was just scared of messing it up. But today, I took a chance................and broke out the shingles and stain. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.........I put my shingles in a large zip lock bag, added a little bit of stain, and mixed it up until all the shingles were coated. I dumped them out of the bag onto a cardboard box, and then used some old, brown-paper bags to soak up some of the excess stain. After they dried, I used Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue (Thanks Casey for the tip....the glue works really well for this!) to attach the shingles to the roof. I still need to do the bottom sides, and those corners are making me want to hide, But I'm sure I'll figure it out!!
The color is probally better shown in the first picture.....not too sure the I like the lighter color.....Now that I'm looking at it from a distance I think darker shingles would of looked much better. Maybe I can add a wash to it, give it more of a dark brown look. Whatca think???