I love using 'stuff' for an unintended purpose. For example:
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::This log planter that I bought at a little shop. (Okay-this WAS intended to be a planter-but you know what I mean-it's a LOG.) It could easily be made-especially if you have a chain saw. What they did was cut a slice off the bottom. Cut out a rectangle out of the inside of the log-then nailed the slice back on the bottom-then nailed on 'mini' logs for feet.
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:: This is a tile drain 'thingy' which my mom brought me from my aunt's. She knows her daughter! I propped it up with a huge tile pot (turned upside down) I spied in the back of my hubby's truck. (Yeah-he was going to throw it out.) I've fished a plethora of good stuff from the back of hubby's truck.
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:: A little bucket-I made the fake paint drips so it would go with my
ladder planter.
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:: Same with this bigger bucket.
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::Hubster brings home these stones w/holes from work.
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:: I love watering cans!
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::I've had this copper tea kettle from a yard sale sitting out for probably ten years now.
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:: Not a pot-but my broken bird bath top is now garden art.
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:: Finally-not a pot either-but here is my first zinnia to bloom. I checked back on the blog and I planted these seeds on May 31st. So that's approximately 40 days from seed to bloom. Not too shabby. I love zinnias!
2 comments:
I love it! I want to see another angle of that log planter! I use my broken pottery pieces for garden art too. Such great ideas.
now i can post.....love the pics...purdyyyy i am surpried you dont the "outdoors" more than you do......i dooooooo
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