Recycled Newspaper Pots

I save seeds each year from my cutting garden for the next year.  These are some of my favorites...

 Peppermint Zinnias

Assorted Zinnias

  I've started some flower seeds today.  I'm thinking I should have done this sooner but.....well......wait a minute.......I'm thinking........

 I made newspaper pots to sow them in and get them started.  The pots are super easy to make, free, and earth friendly.  And once your seedlings are old enough to move out on their own you just pop them into the ground -- paper pot and all. 

You could get fancy (and expensive) with this project.  Purchased newspaper pot makers cost $25 or more.  Sure, they're cute...

Fancy Newspaper Pot Maker

But they don't really make sense when I can whip out a can of Campbell's Soup that'll do the job for free and later sacrifice itself for dinner.

Recycled Newspaper Pot How To
 

Tear a single sheet of newspaper in half and fold in thirds.

Wrap the paper around the can about 1/4" from the top edge.  Not too tight -- you're going to have to slip it off.

Funny headline!  I said the pots were free -- not the soup!

Secure with tape.

Fold the bottom edge in like this...

then this...

Keep folding...

...and folding.

Secure with tape and slip it off the can.

I fill the pots with dirt (also free) from my compost bin and keep the seedlings moist, not soggy, until they're ready to plant, pot and all.

 

Here's a couple of cute options...

 Happy Gardening!!!

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Bird Lamp -- 100th Post Giveaway!!!

This giveaway has ended...
Yeah baby!  This is my 100th post and I can hardly believe I made it this far. It's been fun...and sometimes hard -- with a life going on in the background that's had its ups and downs lately.  

But I've hung in.  I've made some nice friends and I've been inspired by all the very talented (and super funny) bloggers out there.

This is my big one-oh-oh post and I wanted to have a special giveaway.  

I grabbed this curvy lamp at Restore for its shape and not its color.  It was a funky shade of peachy-pink -- not my favorite color since 1987.  Now it's a pale cream, covered with pretty birds (from The Graphics Fairy, of course) and ready for its close up...

Are you feeling lucky?  It's going home with someone.

Maybe it'll be you!

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This giveaway ends Sunday, March 27th  and the winner will be 

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Shopping Your House

 Sometimes you're just (more than) ready for a change.  It doesn't happen to me that often but when it hits me -- it hits me hard.  

Lately I've been in that kind of mood but because I've been working on projects for clients, I haven't had time to "discover" 
new accessories for myself.  

The solution?   

Shop my house.  

I worked on the mantle and a spot or two in the kitchen myself.  Then my Mom (whose timing is always perfect) came for a visit and she shopped my house for me.  

By moving around some of the accessories already on the armoire in the master bedroom and adding things she found around the house she put 

together a new look for me. 

 The prints had been stacked next to the armoire for months, waiting impatiently to be hung...

I still love the vintage book planter so, of course, it had to stay...

And the sweet little picture of Mr. Lindy had to stay as well...

 

What a handsome little man.  

He still sticks his hands in his pockets just like that.

And believe it or not -- I knew him at this age! 

This birdcage was a Christmas gift. The potted ivy seems to show up all over my house -- I think I could use a dozen of them.

Sometimes a little tweaking is all you need.  

A Mother's touch doesn't hurt either...

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Spring Mantel -- Decorating with (Faux) Spring Twigs

 This simple spring project is seriously one of my favorites.  It's a fun, low-cost, long lasting, big impact kind of project.  

And it's simple -- but, I said that already.

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Since I've been knocking myself out working in the yard this weekend, finding just the right twigs was a snap. (I swear that just came out...)


I liked these the best.

Tiny silk flowers (just $3) left over from another
project worked perfectly.

I'm guessing my glue gun came with a warning against sticking anything up it's barrel but...

Pressing the stem into the joints of the twigs (and holding it there a few seconds) seemed to look the best. 

  
The stem may get soft and melt-y but it will stiffen back up as it cools.

Hot gluing them in place was simple enough.  I kept them sparse for a natural look. 

Adding water to the clear vase adds to the illusion don't you think? 

 I tried them on my desk as well...

So there you have it -- pretty spring twigs that look so real you can almost smell 'em!

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Sheer Slip Cover

I slip covered this metal and vinyl dinette chair in a sheer fabric after spray painting it a bronze color. I wanted the chair to show through.

Normally I would add a tutorial here.  So, it's a first for me when I tell you to forget the how to and skip the tutorial -- DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! 

I thought I'd lose my mind making this simple little slip cover.  How hard could it be?  Well?  Very.

The fabric was a slippery mess -- you'd need a nail gun to hold it in place.  

However, the pillow is still one of my favorite projects.  

You can see that tutorial *here*.

I'm done.  It's off to a client's house.  I never want to see it again. 

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