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Wax-dipped pinecone fire starters make starting a fire easy. They look pretty in a basket and make great gifts too. These are for our own use, but they make wonderful, inexpensive and very functional gifts.
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You need a new cutting board so you just buy one, Right? But did you know it’s pretty simple (and very inexpensive) to make an all-natural oak cutting board yourself.
We wanted to make small cheese boards to go with our homemade gifts. Come see how we did it.
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RancherMan & I painted one of our 16-foot long gates in a Texas Flag pattern to show our Texas pride. I think the gate looks awesome.
Many were interested in how we did it – paint color choices, metal star size, etc. So today I’m happy to share how we did it.
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I wanted to make a work of art from an array of arrowheads. I decided to mount them in part of an old shadowbox I’d repurposed.
Using a denim background and some hot glue, I made a heartfelt, sentimental gift for my father. How was it sentimental? Read on, dear friends…
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I made a cross collage using arrowheads. It was placed in a shadowbox frame that was previously just an old (and ugly) repurposed key box. The wood frame was painted white and lightly sanded to distress the finish just a touch. I love the way it turned out!
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I love candles, don’t you? These days I prefer an all-natural beeswax candle. And you’re not gonna believe how easy it is to make one yourself. Makes a cute gift idea too!
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The other day I decided to try a gardening hack I’d read about. I wanted to paint some small rocks red to look like strawberries. The idea is to Trick Birds Away From Your Garden Strawberries.
The birds see the bright-red faux berries and decide to swoop in for a little snack. A few pecks of that rock hard ‘strawberry‘ and they decide you’re an awful gardener and move on, leaving future strawberries for your own harvest.
I already had the paint, I already had the rocks, but I didn’t have a small paintbrush. So I decided to make one on the fly.
All I needed was a tiny scrap piece of absorbent material & an ordinary clothespin.
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I needed a way to trick the birds away from eating my garden strawberries before I can harvest. This simple trick helps preserve the strawberries – I painted small rocks red to look like strawberries & fool the birds.
