When I spotted a birdcage at the scrap yard some months ago, I didn’t want to show my excitement but I was surely thrilled. Sometimes the business owners put a firm price on certain items but the birdcage was sold for the scrap value at about 1.50$.
It’s perfect for seasonal decorations. For Christmas I just put some baubles and other decorative pieces inside and a silver birdie on top.
Now we turn to another of my multiple Christmas personalities, lol. I do love the rather girlie birdcage decor above but lately, I developed also a liking for a more rustic and rusty style, as you probably have realized during my last few posts. Last Christmas I had an idea of creating a tree from those round little metal pieces I had used in one of my
Christmas tree wall hangings. I thought, when I could find them in different sizes and would attach them to a big rusty screw, that this would make a cool tree. This didn’t work out but I couldn’t let go the idea of a rusty 3-d tree and tried again this year. I looked through our stash of rusty parts from the scrap yard and found several round pieces, including a saw blade, a bicycle crank, large bolts, a spring and a small metal ball.
It didn’t take long and my tree was assembled. Then dear hubby welded it together for me because glue wouldn’t have been strong enough to hold every piece in place.
Neither very girlie nor rustic is my chippy mirror. It was a roadside find and I had used it without the frame in my studio for a while.
Originally the frame was pretty ugly. It was partially tiled and had some wooden appliqués that I didn’t like at all. After those were removed and I had painted the frame a medium gray, it looked so much better already. I exchanged the tile part for a chalkboard. I love how it turned out.
My handwriting is not pretty and therefore I transferred the “Jingle Bells” lettering. I printed the words out on regular printer paper. Then I covered the back of the sheets with chalk and traced the letters with a sharp pencil onto the chalkboard. Voilà. Some spots had to be cleaned and some lines had to be completed but it helped a lot to get a nice lettering.
Is it really just a few days until Christmas? How could that happen? I’ll try again next year to be ready in time, lol.
Have a happy weekend!
I’ll be joining these great parties:
Hugs,
Julia