The Houses

 I thought I'd share with you how I made my current header with the little houses.  

Sunday was a delightful day and I spent a few hours with ladies, who like me, enjoy a good shopping trip to what I think of as a 'fun find' store.  We drove to the town of Vinton, VA, not far from us and snooped around two full floors in a store called Old Mill Primitives.

Through the front door and just to the left I came across these small ceramic houses/buildings and although I waited until I had been through the entire store, I returned and purchased four of them.  Wouldn't they be perfect on a window sill, if I had window sills? None to be found in our house, so they sit all pretty in a row on the front entryway cabinet.

 I decided they would be fab on my blog header so I took a few photos of them, cropped them here and there and then uploaded onto iPiccy.com.  There they have a 'painter' option and I painted out the background and then saved the photos, some as individual houses.

 Next, I dragged them into my iWeb program, using a white background and placed the houses side by side, added a few trees, dogs, bushes, some sidewalk, etc. then took a screen shot of it.

 Next I added the lettering I wanted, which I also did in iWeb, but that too can be added in a program such as iPiccy or PicMonkey and then once again saved to your computer.

Such a sweet house!

Do you see it in the header?

It's the two houses on the far left... one photo I flipped and I sat them side by side on the header.

The only thing left to do was to size it for my header and upload it onto my blog.
Amazing what we can do with the purchase of four teeny houses.

Total cost, $10.00 plus time spent indoors on a cold winter day.

Oh, and you'll be seeing more of these houses in upcoming headers!

Ciao.