Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Washi Tape Window Calendar

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There are so many great projects out there using Washi tape. I,for one, couldn't really think of anything I wanted to make with it, so I'm a little late playing around with it!
But, I have some windows in my garage that a friend gave me when they replaced the windows in her house.
Hmmm...
what to do?
Here's what I came up with...
 I found the tape at Target. In the same section as the tape, they had magnets that have the days of the week on them. I also got my dry erase markers on the same aisle.
 I had originally planned to have it where you'd just write in the day of the week, but when I saw these magnets, I knew they'd be perfect!

I measured to evenly divide the window into 7 sections across.
I measured off 5 sections from the bottom up leaving enough space at the top to add my days of the week and the month.


An xacto knife cut the excess tape perfectly.

Using E6000, I glued the days of the week magnets onto the window.


 I added one more row of tape above the days of the week.

All you have to do is write in the month and add the numbers in the correct section and your calendar is ready to fill in with all your important dates!



  The dry erase markers work great on the glass. Just wipe it off when the next month rolls around.





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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Window Screen Beach Bag

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It's officially Summer!!!
Hopefully you'll get a chance to go to the beach!
I wanted to share the beach bag I posted last year...
It's made using window screen.
The sand falls right through the screen and you don't bring the mess home with you!
Get the complete tutorial HERE.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Garden Chair

This wrought iron chair was recently headed for the dump.
It belonged to a friend and she asked if I wanted it. 
Need you ask? Of course I want it!!!
It just laid there missing its back legs for a couple of weeks while I pondered what to do with it.
Then it hit me!
This is what I came up with...

I first put down a cinder block.
 Then I stacked a galvanized tub on top of the block and filled it with potting soil.
I then put the chair on the tub and made sure the dirt came all the way up to the bottom of the chair.
Then I gently began planting portulaca in the openings of the chair seat.
I planted about 8 sprigs of portulaca.
Here it is at different stages...








The portulaca has completely covered the seat of the chair and looks beautiful in my garden!
It looks much better here than at the dump!!!

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Beaver Wars

Bear with me...
I'll get to the creative part of this post in a minute.

We have an ongoing war going on on our property.
A war with beavers!
Actually, my husband has a war going on with beavers. 

We live on a 20 acre lake and have several creeks on our property that feed the lake.
Every winter the beavers start chopping down our trees and damming up our creeks.
These pictures were taken back in January...

This is a beaver dam...

This is my husband preparing for battle...

Let the war begin...

Tearing out the beaver dam...


Ah...the sound of rushing water...


They really are fascinating creatures! They can take down multiple trees and build a dam overnight!

On this particular day, my husband pulled out two 16 foot long boards that the beavers drug from the neighbors yard and put in their dam!

Eventually the war is over!
Beaver builds dam.
Man tears out dam.
Beaver rebuilds dam overnight.
Man tears out dam... again.
Beaver rebuilds dam overnight... again.
And so on and so on.
Then beaver moves on to aggravate someone else.

On the bright side, the beaver leaves behind lots of cool sticks.
So, when life hands you beavers, make a trellis...

(Now for the creative part...)

I arranged some of the sticks on the ground and my husband screwed them together.


We put our beaver stick trellis where I had planted a clematis.



We have a lot more sticks to use for other projects...
I'm thinking, arbor!

Here's another beaver stick I used to hang a window from...

I laid the stick across 2 shepherd hooks and screwed 2 hooks in to it to go through 2 eye hooks I put in the top of an old window. I love how it looks hanging in my zinnia garden!

For now, we have a little reprieve from the beavers, but in about 5 months it'll be war again!



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