Step #1:
Get a stool! This one is from IKEA:
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/h9deD.jpg)
Step #2:
Get a cute crocodile! Remove its skin.
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/piyGA.jpg)
Step #3:
Get loads of paint! Adult supervision is recommended.
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/aTKAb.jpg)
The final result!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/AhaoF.jpg)
And the same stool, but this time with cats!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Cj1O3.jpg)
I hope you enjoyed the guide.

This stool was painstakingly made by my wife, who was recently charmed by Minecraft and decided the real world just wasn't perpendicular enough without a patch of dirt to call her very own. I say 'painstakingly', because it turns out that it takes rather a while to hand-paint 1024 individual squares (~10 hours for the full project, including sewing the 'grass' onto the top of the square).