Last November, in an effort to keep both my sketching and design abilities fresh, I entered the Pioneer's Park Nature Center Artistic Birdhouse Competition in which the top 30 designs (selected from a small thumbnail sketch) would be chosen and thereby given the go-ahead to be built for auction this coming April.
My sketch:
Received notice late December that mine was chosen to be built (no commission...and on my own time :) So I immediately scrambled to figure out how to make it work:
Late January...construction began (thanks to Anne for allowing me to takeover her basement):
Fire-resistant: check!
Thanks to Dad for helping me with the mounting mechanism...and the use of his "test-pole" :)
Dropped it off today, and will now be on display (along with the other 29) around town until the auction in early April.
