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Authentic

Posted on November 29, 2014

I mentioned I have the theme of “A Christmas Carol” for the library… Victorian… Charles Dickens… right?

While trolling for ideas on the internet, I saw a pic of a little chair, a crutch, a top hat, and fiddle set just in a corner… and I *LOVED* it!  Tiny Tim’s chair.  Can everyone say, “Aaaaaaawwww”?   So I’ve been wanting a top hat (and I may have found one on Amazon – of course… we have little kids’ oak chairs for our kids’ reading table, that was NOT going to be a problem… today… I made a crutch.

Tiny Tim crutch

There’s always a pile of limbs around somewhere on this place… so I slid out to one (it’s alternately icy and muddy around here!) and cut a forked branch.  A little time with my sanding wheel on my grinder…  A torn up sheet wrapped around the top.

I liked it.

I had drug the end through some mud… but that white sheet?  It was just too…. white!

Well… dirt stains are not a problem around here… ha ha… but the wind was howling today and it was cold, blowing the next storm in after melting some and now re-freezing.  Well, I’d just do the next best thing.

I made a hot cuppa!  The tea and honey was delish, but the tea bag got put to use too!

Nice brown tea bag stains quite well.

Before…

Tiny Tim's crutch 2

And after…

Tiny Tim's crutch 3

Oh, yeah.

Much more “authentic”!

Now… that top hat…

 

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7 thoughts on “Authentic”

  1. MaryB says:
    December 1, 2014 at 10:02 AM

    This looks great.

    Reply
  2. Sandy says:
    November 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM

    Tiny Tim wore a Windsor cap, did he not?

    Reply
  3. Marilyn says:
    November 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM

    You and the sanding wheel did a great job! I agree that the tea-stained one
    really “makes it”!

    Reply
  4. Debbie says:
    November 30, 2014 at 7:38 AM

    I love your creativity! You really do make ranch life look like more fun than most people should be allowed!

    Reply
  5. Joy says:
    November 30, 2014 at 5:35 AM

    You are just so stinking artsy, talented, amazing! It is ALWAYS so exciting to open your page and see what you are doing now.

    Reply
  6. Joanne, Worcestershire, UK says:
    November 30, 2014 at 12:47 AM

    I agree Carol, so much better with the tea bag stain. Well done.

    Reply
  7. Rebma says:
    November 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM

    That looks fantastic!

    Reply

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Carol, Wyoming rancher

Since 2008, I’ve kept this photographic journal of life on our working Wyoming ranch.  I share ranch work, my family, crafts and DIY, my English Shepherds, Bravo and Indy, and a love for this land.  Enjoy this red dirt country!

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