Pop that Button! My Turkey is Done!

Pop that Button! My Turkey is Done!

I was surprised this year that my Butterball turkey didn’t have one of those plastic pop-up buttons on it to tell me when it’s done.  Instead I just cooked it to death in my convection oven.  No Salmonella or Campylobacteriosis on my watch.

I mentioned in my last post that I was working on my Thanksgiving painting craft turkey.  It doesn’t have a pop-up button on it either to tell me when it’s done so I’m just winging it and stepping out on a limb to say that this masterpiece is complete.

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I saw door decorations such as this on the internet.  Most of them had a base of burlap.  However, I had some unstretched canvas retrieved from a pile of discarded materials at a school where I was once working and I used that instead.  Since I don’t know the canvas’ provenance, my luck It’s probably coated in asbestos or something dire.  Maybe I should rethink my policy on accepting handouts.DSCF4588

I found a drawing on the internet and enlarged it.  Then I drew my turkey on the top half of the folded canvas. I used my Rembrandt-like skills to paint this fowl, or some might say foul masterpiece. When I was finished painting I thought it looked a tad bright, so I used Annie Sloan dark wax from a previous project to tone it down. Finally, I sprayed on several coats of matte Mod Podge to seal it for outside use.   Olivia said it looked “like a fine specimen from the vault of historic turkey art.”   I think she might have been a little sarcastic.  Hard to tell.

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Since the canvas was free, I opted for free grocery bags as the stuffing. Easy!

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Sarcasm aside, I like it.  I will hang him on my door for a little outing today and then put him in the vault (basement) to store for next year.

Turkey Craft

 

One Response to Pop that Button! My Turkey is Done!

  1. Merry Carol November 29, 2015 at 6:21 pm #

    Looks like a “happy turkey”…and it still had its head….love your blogs.