Teapot bird house tutorial

This project came about as a gift for my husband's Great Aunt Virginia's 80th birthday who loves birdhouses. When her birthday rolled around this year it wasn't so much of an issue figuring out what I wanted to give her but more so how to not give her the same old bird house. I already built her a traditional bird house and hand painted it a few years back so it had to be unique. As I was hand painting a tea pot for my daughters birthday I thought why not use a teapot for a bird house. A quick google image search I found a few ideas. I liked this format using the lid for bird seed and having the teapot on its side but I did not like the look of wiring the tea pot down so I figured I could modify it a bit and make something like it that was more clean looking. Now I love playing with power tools so this project was right up my ally but dont be afraid if you are not a wood worker you can still have a teapot birdhouse in 2 simple steps. One: pick a teapot you like like. Two: hang it by the handle on a Shepherd's hook throw in some moss and your done. Doesn't get an easier then that. For those of you who love your power tools like me.. here's how I went about making mine. 

First I started wit my board and I cut it on the table saw

Next I pre drilled my holes for the screws

now scre the two pieces together in an "L" shape

once you turn it over it should look like this

Now as you can see here my tea pot wasn't a flat bottom 

mt origianl plan was to drill a hole in the bottom and just screw it to the board but that wasn't going to happen so I used the bandsaw to cut a circle that would fit in the bottom of the teapot.

Now I screwed the circle onto the board Also note the small hole I drilled with a butterfly drill bit (if thats even what its really called) I made sure it was big enough for the top of the teapot lid

now I added 2 hanging screws to the top of the board

now you are going to need some clear epoxy 

Cover the circle with the epoxy and place the teapot over it and let it dry. then do the same with the hole place the lid in the hole filled with epoxy and let it dry 

Once I finished with that I threw some Spanish moss inside the tea pot for the birds

I decided I didn't like the plain board so I oped to cover the boards with the left over spanish moss. I felt it gave the final project more of a woodsy look to it. So here are a few pictures of the finished project.