One thing leads to another...
I bought a drill bit thing-a-ma-jig to cut circle shaped holes out of wood. 
Probably has more comprehensible (shorter!) name?
I wanted to cut pieces of birch different lengths and then drill plant-pot holes in the top. (I saw a centerpiece holding candles somewhere for inspiration.) Unusual Container ideas were floating around in my head for the coming Virtual AV Show! :)
So I played with polymer clay, baked, drilled, chiseled, whittled, cussed, applied band-aid, wood-glued.
And produced this crafty piece of art. shush now!
Not exactly how I first envisioned it, but working fairy doors are going to take a little more planning. Plus, round logs are harder to glue flat things to than I thought <grins>.
Plant is my sporty version of
Ness' Fantasy Gold.
Not much fantasy, but I finally got some "gold" - except every bloomstalk puts out a different colored flower on all 4 or 5 plants I've grown so far. And then very quickly the yellow turns into a ghastly orange/dead brown blossom?
This imitation palm-tree had it's rootball severely trimmed in order to
BUT there's a couple more just like it on the plant shelf. I'm hoping the next round of blooms on one of them will improve: pick a nice version and stick to it!
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