Country Living

I am blessed to be able to live in a very rural area. You know, the kind where everybody knows everybody, and neighbors {don't} work on their vehicles at midnight and wake up my baby, until I walk the 1/4 mile to their house in my bathrobe and tell them to shaddup, keeping an eye out for {skunks} the whole way... 
oh wait, that did happen. 

Anyway, one of the great things about my {country} life (aside from being able to squeeze a chicken anytime I need to bake a cake) is that I have a lot of space. 

I have a large garden, really more than my family of 3-and-a-baby needs, and I have a cute little corn patch, that does not have a problem with crows...

But do you think that's going to {stop} me from making a scarecrow? 

Not!

And of course I made my scarecrow a lady scarecrow. :o) 


Meet Ruby: 

A 6'2" statuesque blonde who works hard for a living. (And no, not in a working-girl kind of way) Since I don't have a crow problem, rather than calling her a "Scarecrow", I'm going with "Corn Shepherdess"

I made her body using 3 pieces of scrap wood. I used my own dimensions (height-wise. No way am {I} that skinny) to distance her head, arms and hips. (Should have gone to her waist- not hips... then clothes would fit better...) I used Herr Handsome's drill and some 3" screws to attach the arms and hips to the main beam.

I made Ruby's head with a piece of a burlap feed sack, stuffed with {straw} of course! Right there is another {perk} of rural life: my chicken feed comes in burlap sacks, so I've got a lot of it. 

Doesn't she have a lovely face?

I got a skein of yellow yarn at a thrift store for 50 cents, and attached it to a thrift store hat to make lovely long hair, which I braided. (Girl is outside all day, she needs to have her hair off her neck.) I decided to make her blonde, cause I hear they have more fun.

I attached her head to her body with staples, and covered the staples with some jute twine. 

Ruby's shirt, skirt, and belt, and bra are thrifted or hand-me-downs, and I added a flower to her belt with hot glue. I was going to stuff the bra with straw, but I thought that might be too {itchy}, so I stuffed it with polyester stuffing. Lucky girl is a D-cup! 

I threaded a rope through her skirt to cinch it tight above the "hips", and tied and {stapled} the belt to the hips. The skirt was a LOT longer, but I was sure if I left it so long, some critter would come make a nest in her drawers, and pop out and scare me while I'm working outside, so I cropped it. Ruby looks like the kind of gal who can pull it off though, right?

Total cost for my {sassy} scarecrow?


Shirt - on hand
Skirt - on hand
belt - 10 cents
hat - $1
 yarn - 50 cents
burlap, wood, straw, acrylic paint - on hand


Total cost: $1.65


She's cheap! (and fairly easy)

<3 AmberLou

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