Chickens and a Chicken House from recycled materials

So, Hubs wants to keep chickens and he started by building a chicken enclosure complete with nesting boxes from mostly recycled items we had on our little homestead.  I’m giving in and going with the idea we are homesteading in our fall and winter years of retirement.  I have to admit the chicken house and pen are pretty genius.

Pillow make overs with scarves

I started with good intentions to clean out the master bedroom closet when I got distracted by a stash of old scarves.  I recently went very white in my master bedroom and have been thinking how to add some add color.  I started tying the scarves onto some pillows and feel very good about how they turned out and how I’m reusing the scarves.  Here’s a pictorial DIY showing you how I did it using pillows and scarves I already had.

The square scarves worked really well on a square pillow. Tie opposite corners with a square knot and in a flash its done!

 

This one is over a bed pillow in a white sham.

Here is a short scarf tied onto a rust color couch pillow.

 

This long scarf with fringe was a tiny bit more challenging. I ended up spreading out the ends and using safety pins to keep them in place. 

I bet you have some pillow dressing tricks too.  Please share!

Sock rosettes

By golly, I'm going to use up all those orphaned and abandoned socks one way or another!  I'm like a mad woman trying to recycle them.  I started working on a Halloween Door Wreath this morning made completely of recycled and re-purposed items and those socks are on my mind.  I am very happy with the way these sock rosettes came out!

Start by rolling the sock long ways, so that the top of the sock will form the center of the flower.   Keep the sock rolled and twisted tight as you wrap the rest of the sock around the center.Because I was attaching the rosettes to a Styrofoam wreath, I used straight pins to keep it in place.  

I'll be finishing the wreath and posting it tomorrow... come back to see it...I'm very excited!

Storage container for crackers

I discovered today a sleeve of crackers (-2) fits nicely in an empty Pringles can!  Now I can carry them for my lunch and snacks to work without crushing them and they will stay fresh longer too!

club crackers too!