So my oldest daughter saw the wigstand that my second daughter made.  (The one that was white, with the intricate henna inspired black patterns on top of the white paint, saved to the May 2017 blog.)  As sisters will do – especially these  sisters – she said she wanted to make one, too!  Now I’m not saying my kids have been in some kind of eternal contest since the day they were born, but I’m not going to deny it, either.  When she was here for Thanksgiving, I gave her one I had made out of cherry wood and said she could do anything she wanted to decorate it, except spray paint.  Cherry is just too pretty to be spray painted a solid color!  It took her about an hour, and here’s what she came up with.  The brown parts are a walnut stain she painted on by hand, and the red and green parts are acrylic paint that’s been thinned.

This turned out VERY pretty! 

Start with cherry, paint in some walnut stain, some red flowers with a little greenery and this is what you get. Beauty!!!

Daughter #3 took a maple stand home (which does not have the no spray paint restriction on it) and said she’d “see what she could do with it”.  Daughter #2 also claimed one of the cherry ones and has marked out an even more intricate henna design, only on this one she’s going to use the wood burner instead of a sharpie.  Daughters 4 and 5 are (im)patiently waiting for me to make more stands so they can get in on the action.

At this rate, the cancer center is going to be very pleasantly surprised!