I saw a guy making these spindle bird houses on one of the wood turning groups that I’m in. I’d give him credit, but I honestly don’t remember the guy’s name. Some may remember the post I did last year for a collaboration piece I participated in with two friends from my turning club. If not, here’s a link.

Anyway, I’ve made more of these from time to time since then. The turning part doesn’t take all that long to complete, but the part I really like is all the different options for painting, burning, or dying them. No two of these will ever look the same. One day, when I was in my craft room working on a different project, I looked up and saw a line of completed spindle bird houses just setting there. I remembered finishing them and chose to use the same base colors on all of them to try to pull them together as a set. Still, they just looked kinda plain. Like they were missing something.

Each time I went to the desk to work, I’d see them and think “one of these days, I should figure out a way to fix them”.

Yesterday, an idea hit me that I thought was funny, so now I consider them “fixed”. I don’t usually name projects, but if I did, this one would be titled “there goes the neighborhood”!