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Sprout a Couch. Cool Copper Projects Warm metallic hues are easy to love but often pricey.

Sprout a Couch

When you create the look... Easy Doily Bowl Craft a decorative bowl from a doily picked up from a flea market, antique... Camper Birdhouse Encourage birds to stay awhile with an adorable vintage birdhouse. How to Make a Personal Fire Pit For Cheap! My name is Karen and I haven’t lit anything on fire in 5 months.

How to Make a Personal Fire Pit For Cheap!

I’m sure I deserve some sort of a chip or something for that. You see … I’m a bit of a pyromaniac. Technically I’m not a *real* pyromaniac I guess. I mean, I only light things on fire that should be lit on fire. Like kindling and hardwood and pretty much anything with Hello Kitty on it. We light fires in the fireplace every night here in old Casa de Karen from October until March. 6 face cords every year go flying up that chimney. So what’s a pretend pyromaniac girl like me to do in September? The Answer … The Personal Fire Pit. Here we gooooooo … Materials you Need cheap glass frames – $4 small rocks – $2 any kind of metal mesh – $2 any metal planter with a lip (edge) on it – $8 (on sale) Step #1 – Making a Glass Box You need to make a glass box. A DIY Concrete Block Planter & Bar The Hunted Interior. How to make a red turtle shell from Mario. First you want to get your clay out, it doesn't matter what color you use, since you will be painting over it.

How to make a red turtle shell from Mario

I wanted to start off with a light orange color, so I mixed orange and white. Warm you clay up by holding it in your hands and mushing it around, then make a sort of squished egg shape. Next, take a smaller piece of clay and put it in your hands and roll it back and forth to make a snake like piece, then using your reference picture, wrap the snake around the ball (body), raising it higher in the front(look at pictures). When the end meets the other end, smooth it together with your fingers, getting rid of the 'crease'.

Take your chop stick, and, using the smaller end, poke a hole where the turtle head would be, and then using a tooth pick with one of the ends cut of, dig two smaller half holes on either side, making the leg holes. How to make a clay mario. Piranha Planter. Time to paint.

Piranha Planter

I started with primer and then used matte finish neon spray paint. To get a nice shiny finish, I finished it off with glossy finish spray. Build a SnowBed. Fun with Adhesive: Aluminum Duct Tape Garden Markers. I do not have a green thumb.

Fun with Adhesive: Aluminum Duct Tape Garden Markers

All summer, I spend ridiculous amounts of time and money on plants for the little garden plot behind my apartment, only to see them whither away in the sun, or be ravaged by colossal city rabbits. Not bunnies—city rabbits—big as cats with meaty legs the size of ham hocks. All winter they feast on hot garbage and mate with possums, spawning ferocious hybrid marsupial-rodents in the spring. Then the spawn go and consume my little garden as though it were Old Time Country Buffet with a sign on the door that read GIANT MARSUPIAL-RODENT SPAWN EAT FREE.

I hate those little shits. Despite my failures, my inner farmer will not be tamed. Traditional Copper garden markers range widely. Materials. Green Style: A DIY Succulent Scrap Wood Table. Paving-Stone Table.