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Posted: May/23/2008 8:53 AM PST
Anyone out there into decorating their gardens with found objects ?? I got soooo hooked on remaking bowling balls a couple summers ago- and I have several friends who have used old dishes and china, old glass insulators- all kinds of things- to make interesting garden art. Anyone else ?? |
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Posted: May/25/2008 8:40 PM PST
I have not because I always fear I'll end up looking like "Sanford and Son" ahahahah!! But I do have my husband making things for me sometimes... he made a wheelbarrow planter and he's working on my wishing well... after that I'd like some hanging planters and bird houses 
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Posted: May/26/2008 8:38 PM PST
Lily, that is my constant hobby. If you look at my photos you will see some of my homemade yard art. I love the bowling ball art, but havent started doing that yet. |
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Posted: Jun/06/2008 4:50 PM PST
How's this? I found the basin out in the back field and retrieved it before the wild roses bushed out. The scrub board I bought for a dollar at a neighbor's yardsale. It used to say bath and soap on it, but I spray painted over the lettering and sprayed the rusty copper scrubber part silver. I'm still trying to figure out how the copper rusted, but oh well. It looks better silvery. The plant is a calamint(?) and isn't the prettiest smelling, but the foliage is speckled cream and green. It's a perennial so I'll plant it later in the season when I put the other stuff away. All in all, it was about a $5 project. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jun/06/2008 9:34 PM PST
Poe, I like it! I love to use things that I find or get at a sale. |
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Posted: Jun/07/2008 4:34 AM PST
Copper does "rust". Copper oxide is bluish-white in color. |
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Posted: Jun/07/2008 9:51 AM PST
I like it too! I like the plant. I'm not familiar with it. Love to see it when you get it planted. |
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Posted: Jun/15/2008 7:41 PM PST
stereoman, I know that.  But this was good ole, too much salt on a car body type rust. Maybe it was copper plate that wore off and what was under it rusted? I don't know. The top side's rustoleum silver now. lol
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Posted: Jun/26/2008 8:29 AM PST
I would love an idea for the old blue telephone insulators.. dh brought 2 barrels home from his parents house... ok now what must be 75 of them in there. I did set the old toy pedal tractor in the garden the iron bed I was going to make a trellis but never got around to it. |
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Posted: Jun/26/2008 10:11 AM PST
What about making something like a bottle tree only using the insulators instead? |
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