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MAKING BIRD FEEDERS
YES I DID. This is the thing, I am not the most creative person and yet I volunteered to make bird feeders to sell today at an event called "Franklin in Bloom." Because I am a member of the Franklin Garden Club, who initiated a month long event that celebrates the beautiful gardens and flowers in downtown Franklin, I felt obligated to do my part for "Venders: Day."
We are going to sell handmade bird feeders.
If I explained all of the painful details on how I accomplished this project, this would be a very long post.
So, in short, I found dishes etc in Goodwill, sticks to hold bird feeders at Lowe's. at least four different kinds of glue, pebbles from my driveway and little green stones I had as a decoration in my guest bathroom. Not to mention several trips to the dollar store for various reasons that turned out to be fruitless except for some wedding favor bags for birdseed.
After many stressful hours of toil and hard work this is what I made.
Nine bird feeders in all.
Easy part was gluing the dishes. The hard part was finding a way to stand them up.
On the big ones I used a bud vase. The stick, painted green, fit perfectly and tight in the bud vase. YAY!
The small ones were harder. I used a salt shaker without the lid, filled it with tiny pebbles from my driveway (I ran our of green stones) and poured E6000 glue in it to hold everything together. it worked.
I used some tiny green stones in a small vase and poured it full of glue. I put it upside down and put the stick in first then the stones. Genius right? HA!
Did I say it took hours, more like a week, waiting for each stage of the glue to harden.
The big question is...will anyone buy them?
Maybe if we give them a little bag of bird seed for free. Big smile here!
I'll let you know.
Happy Pink Saturday
Blessings and love,
JEANNE
I love the crafty bird feeders. What cute idea. May have to copy ☺️
Posted by: Terie | June 25, 2016 at 07:39 PM
You did a wonderful job on making these bird feeders, Jeanne! They are adorable! I would buy one if it were reasonably priced. Good luck with the sale!
Posted by: Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti | June 27, 2016 at 01:18 AM
You did a super job making these bird feeders Jeanne! My niece Holly once made a three tiered server from tea cups and plates for me for a tea party. So thoughtful and cute. I did not see the link for Blue Monday so left my double comment here for Blue Monday and Pink Saturday which I missed. :-( Have a great week and thank you for sharing. xo
Posted by: Anne | June 27, 2016 at 08:35 AM
I love it, so pretty and so sweet of you to make them. I bet you will sell out.
Posted by: joy | June 27, 2016 at 03:38 PM
OMG!! Those are so awesome!!! I love how you problem solved and figured out ways to stick those pieces together!!! Brilliant idea gluing the pebbles in the salt shaker!!! You never cease to amaze me!!
I thought of you and Bonnie and I attended a neat antique sale on Sat. We haven't had many chances to hang out lately so it was really a treat to do that!! I just bought a basket, but we sure enjoyed our outing!! I'm having breakfast at her house tomorrow....she's cooking....I'm bringing fruit!! I got the better end of that deal!!
It's still brutally hot here....may be having cooler weather soon and hopefully some rain. I feel so bad for the folks in WV that suffered from those horrible floods.
Gotta get supper started!!
Have a great week!! L, Dana
Posted by: Dana | June 27, 2016 at 04:45 PM