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Twigs, rustic salvage and found objects made into garden art - sound like something you like, too?
If it's rusty or rustic, weathered treasures gleaned from thrift stores and garage sales, or hand made crafts from natural materials in the hedgerows and roadsides; these are things that appeal to me - find out what is next...
Making Colors From Primary Colored Paint - the basics of color...
DIY Faux Tin Tiles for ceilings and backsplashes; use your rustic skills to make unique rustic country decor...
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Learn some Twig Craft Techniques and simple skills; rustic crafts are easy and fun to do with a few basic methods; no rocket scientists need apply...
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Building a Mason Bee House is fun and easy, and gives these busy little pollinators a safe place to raise their families while they pollinate your fruit trees and other garden plants...
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Useful pages and products - Rustic Crafts Resources
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Make Garden Totems out of recycled thrift store finds; use those lovely glass and ceramic pieces that appeal to you; don't feel guilty about giving them yet another life in your garden...
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See the Vintage Wood Stove in all her glory - it's amazing how many of my vignettes all mesh and combine; this one is all about the old wood cookstove...
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Make a Rustic Garden Wreath out of natural and found supplies for your country decor; primitive or more formal...you choose...
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Hillbilly Clipart; bringing the country life to your art work, blog or just for fun; gardening, rustic shacks, primitive art...
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How to Make a Styrofoam Planter - a DIY Tutorial...
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Never Assume that your helper can read your mind and that they comprehend your instructions...
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Have you been Junk Gardening long? Or just started? You'll be astonished at what kinds of things you can use to decorate your garden whimsically and cheaply...
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Make your own Patio Blocks out of soil cement using this innovative method; create a unique garden focal point to add character to your landscape
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Make a Clay Pot Bird Bath - garden art for the birds...
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Mudroom Ideas - Twig Coat Hooks add to your rustic home decor...
Make some rustic porch Spindle Angels...
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Learn how to make your crafts look weathered and old with the Crackle Paint Technique; distressed, antiqued and shabby chic
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Driftwood Crafts take a cast off piece of flotsam from the beach, and transform it into a unique and unusual decoration or focal point
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Got a yearning to start Hypertufa Gardening, but don't know where to start? Get the Hypertufa How-To Manual here...
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Learn about using Rebar for Crafts; this useful metal construction rod can have many uses; for rustic garden archways, as a pin for footings for a pergola and so on...
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I am working on an old cabin and wish to use sticks to outline birchbark. Hickory seems to be the most recommended type of stick. Alas, I have no access
Ivy, Terracotta Pots, and Wire - what do these spell? Heart Shaped Topiary of course...
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Earth Day is coming up; what will you do to help Mother Earth? How about making some garden art out of junk and trash?
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Twig Handles on totes, baskets, creels and boxes add so much charm and character; collect them from orchard prunings, landscape and garden plants, or find them wildcrafting in the woods...
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Salix Twigs have been used for centuries for making willow fencing, garden beds, archways and baskets; easy to grow and use, this is the prima donna of all craft twigs
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Weathering Wood with Vinegar and Steel Wool - it's amazing...
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Two parts make up the Rusty Saw Table; a big old saw blade, and the legs salvaged from a table in a bar; making a great garden vignette can be simple, and cheap...
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i often take my grandchildren on hikes they do it that often that its become natural to them, i have thier mam on the phone everytime they go out or on
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How to Make Metal Look Old; techniques and tips for artificially aging metal for rustic garden crafts; learn about patina, verdigris and how to make tin look aged
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This Old Window Vignette shows off some of my collection of vintage bottles and some driftwood - can you spot the faux driftwood?
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Create a Twig Firewood Tote for carrying firewood from the woodshed; if your lifestyle is rustic, you need one of these.
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Here's a super easy and quick way to Cut T-Shirts into Strips - learn how here...
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Here's where you can find Garden Sign Sayings for your rustic garden signs; contribute your own to the growing list...
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Terracotta Clay Pots - the uses are endless...
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Rustic Craft Safety can mean the difference between having fun making garden crafts, or a trip to the emergency room; which would you choose?
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Fruit Wood Twigs are one of those things that just keeps on giving; apple, pear and peach trees need pruning every year; take those twigs and make them into crafts
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Although not quite Hypertufa, this Soil Cement Bird Bath has very similar techniques; build this diy garden craft...
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Cold Porcelain Acrylic Painting - tips for coloring your craft...
How to Build a Twig Fence; learn how to make a rustic garden fence out of branches and twigs, to add charm and character...
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Many gardens are decorated with funky junk and garden art, but there seems to be a common thread among gardeners; we like to have Garden Faces around us...
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How to Break a Clay Pot for a Fairy Garden - DIY Tips
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Quick! I need some Christmas decor - here's a Prim Flour Scoop diy tutorial for ya...
Got the urge to shed some light on it? Why not make a DIY Lantern?
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Building Rustic Furniture E-Book; DIY and Craft Tutorial Manual...
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