In the gardern...kinda

So does anyone else know about Goodwill's Sunday and Monday sale?  It was only 99 cents but recently went to 1.29.  It's like a treasure hunt, you find the magic color and then start searching for a lost treasure.  I absolutely love it!!!  It is the game of re purposing :)

So back in the 99 cent era I found this lamp, I tend to buy lamps for parts and rewire them or distort them but they still remain illuminating.

Well that is until this one.  I loved the look but just didn't want to make another lamp.  It was like when I figured out how to crochet hats and then everyone I knew had one of my hats.  I had so many I was just handing them out to random people at the Christmas Parade.  It's the only time of year you can do that without being arrested.

So do you want to see what I did with it?  Oh I just remembered, the set of lights I converted into cat proof planters.  Ok my bad I was wrong but I'm going in that kind of direction.

So here it is TAAAA-DAAAA!!!! 

I found the bowling ball on one of the treasure hunting days and it fit perfectly.  Needed some garden art to balance the bunny.  The little tea light holders are glued to the file cabinet rod thingies.  The only thing left to use on the file cabinets are the drawers.

They are working pretty good as planters! 

Scope out my pea crop, no weeds, no bugs, no cats digging in and doing their business.  Plus I don't have to bend over or kneel in wet ground.  I do <3 these things. 

Think I 'm going to have salad for lunch with some fresh pods, oooh yeah :)

My sigh is gone!! It is replaced with a smile.

A few post ago I was disappointed with my craftiness not measuring up to what some else did.  After much coveting and comparing I finally stop.  Dang, sometimes I am pathetic.  So someone called and asked if I had some kind of container to which the yellow popped into my mind.
They said it would be great but then I felt bad because I knew it was not my best.  So I went to work making it a little more girlie.  Now I actually like it and feel sad to see it go.  :(  yep pathetic again

So here it is new and improved.

Yep the pink flower and the beads totally rock.

Finally!! I have finished the orange thingy!

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with stuff

Ok so I found this large ornate frame in the dumpster behind our thrift store. Part of it had been chipped but that was all I could see. I think it's made of plaster and wood. So I painted it orange with ideas of putting some kind of art in it. It didn't happen. After moving my desk to make room for the awesome trunk I found. It dawned on me to use it to organize my area in hopes of it not being a dumping ground.  Stapled some chicken wire I found in the garage and voila'

instant organizer!  I then glued some paper on some clothes pins and now I can see my projects and inspiration.
Plus it cost me NOTHING.
~hint! the lollipop is an up coming project

Another ducktape flower & Before and after file cabinet

I have made another duck tape flower. This one is for my friend and her garden. She wanted one for her birthday and I was happy to obliged.

I had to take a picture of it with my other one, just so it wouldn't be lonely.

Pretty huh :) I so love duck tape.

Ok on to the before and after.

So this is the before. An older metal file cabinet. Pretty heavy duty one, could probably withstand a nuclear explosion.

So pulled out the drawers and did some painting and......

TADA!!!!! outdoor seating with storage. You'll have to excuse the tape at the end of the cushion. I haven't got around to sewing it yet. I wanted to make sure no bugs could crawl in. The lid is hinged and found wood. The file cabinet was free, and so was the wood. The cushion I already had. So all this cost me was the paint. I added the mustache because it makes me smile and I needed to man up the deck a little.

I have one more filing cabinet to play with. Hmmmmm what to do, another planter or storage or something completely different. We shall see.....until then.

Close to free Deck

I repainted my deck yesterday. A beautiful deep blue that looks amazing among the green. If my deck looks familiar, it's because I used free pallets to make it. Once again free is my favorite number. I leveled the ground and added sand and placed 6 pallets (screwed together) on it. I found some 1x2 inch striping to place in the slats . Tacked it down with finishing nails and then cover it in an oil base porch paint.

All in all I love my little deck. It's under a cherry tree and I even found a thick piece of wood to go over the very old pond to tie it all together.

I will take another pic when I have it looking pretty.

a moment of AHA!

Years ago when Mc Donalds changed their milk containers from cardboard to small plastic bottles, I took them home. I just knew they would become something one day. What I was not sure but they were too cute to be thrown away. I had a compulsion to bring them home still not knowing what they were going to be. I had to finally stop myself because I still had not thought of something nor found anything being done with them on the web. It was only a matter of time before it occurred to someone. Why not me?

So the a few weeks ago I came across and article about vase cozies. I thought "I can fake that" so with croquet needle in hand I attempted to make one and was surprised to find I had succeeded. As I was looking for another vase I had stumbled upon my stash of McD's milk bottles and I figured what the hey. I didn't know what I was doing anyway might as well try this. I was thrilled to find they came out adorable!!!! I love them and will be surprising people with little bouquets of flowers in them hanging on their door.

It had occurred to me and I think I'm the first to think of how to reuse those adorable little plastic Mc Donald's milk bottles. Just think it only took me 4 years. I would love to give a tutorial but am not sure how I did what I did. I started with a circle and then worked my way up the bottle. Then topped it off with a handle.