The bird-feeding lamp ... dear oh DEER...I should have known better !

Purging and/or re-purposing ...                                                                   I took this old kinda ugly three arm brass lamp ... removed the wiring and sockets with plans to make a hanging bird-feeding lamp.                                                                     I set it in a heavy resin base from another lamp to work on it. 

Used three aluminum vintage cake pans, drilled holes for drainage and lined them with a piece of wood.   

  

Attached them to the arms and center post.  Four large feeding trays ... so inviting.                                       Decided to leave it as a table lamp feeder instead of hanging it. 

 Spray painted it gray ........
 

 set it on the "table" .... and filled each pan with birdseed.

 Next morning ... 

 dear oh DEER ... i should have know better !!!

  I straightened the bent pans ... took everything apart ... turned everything over and hung it in my bird feeding station where it should have been in the first place. The birds love it. The deer can get to it, but not knock it down. 

I guess you noticed that I do not have plants in my pots on the left ... too hot ... too dry and too many hungry deer. 

Thanks for your visit ... hope you will let me know you were here.

Blessings,

Yes, we do have deer in our yard ... every day ...

... our regular family                       ... there are more out of the picture

   

two sets of twins were added this year.

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Leaded and stained glass Church windows in our window

I love architectural salvage ...

no doubt about it.

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My Salvaged Treasures

 

Thanks ladies for a fun and interesting party and for the features.

 

 In the late 1970's/early 1980's, we moved to San Antonio, Texas. Right off , I found this guy who demolished old buildings.

He had a treasure trove of beautiful architectural pieces.

 

I thought I was in heaven when I found these three, yes three stained and leaded glass Church windows. 

They came from a Church in Houston, Texas that was built in 1903, if I remember correctly. 

They were complete with beautiful wooden frames and original hinges on each window.

We replaced rotted wood in the bottom part of one of the frames and replaced broken and missing glass. I was lucky enough to have some green stained glass from another church window to replace the parts in the wreath.
    
The student artist who did the glass work, had some old glass he could use. He said some of the glass was Tiffany-style glass and could have been made by Tiffany, but the windows were not. He was so excited to get to work on this one.
   
This is the area where the repair work was done. This middle window is not as wide as the other two and the pattern is changed just a little.

  
We made a 6' wide x 7' tall  x 9" deep room divider using 2' x 6" boards and molding. We painted it ... don't remember what color. We used this divider in our San Antonio and Michigan house.


We added florescent lights in the top of the divider and glass shelves on the back side of the windows. This gave us a view of the windows from both sides. We displayed clear glass and crystal on the shelves. The electric cord for the lights was hidden under the molding. .... this divider is now being used in our workshop to store cans of paint, etc.

  The magnificent candelabra and wreath is beautiful in the full length of the window.

No staging here ... they are mounted in our 6'x6' window behind our TV and floor lamp. We have lights mounted above them and enjoy them at night too. These pictures were taken during the day with natural sunlight behind them. 

You will notice some leading that may run at an angle across the glass or be in a place other than the normal pattern ... this is an old repair where the glass was cracked.                                                                                                                  Each window has eight thin metal bars running across them in several places for stability and protection.                                                              This is the side that would face outward.

All windows are 70" tall, The first and third one is 23½" wide and the middle one is 20" wide. We added spacers to the window to make them fit.

  

The two outside windows are hinged and can be opened for light or fresh air. They stay closed the majority of the time. The middle one is suspended from the top of the window with hooks.

Hope you enjoyed seeing one of my most treasured thrifting finds.

Thanks

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Thrifty finds...changing the mantel.bottles.birds and balance

Changing the Mantel ... 

I love my green bottles and needed something light, airy and cool looking for the mantel because it is just so hot and dry right now. 

  

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Not lucky enough to have fresh flowers to display, so silk will do.

 This is a tall fireplace so this piece of decorative fence works really well to draw the eye up and add height in the center.

The pretty little bird always seem to find a place on the mantel. Here he sits atop a fragment from the bottom of a cement bird bath. I thought it was interesting and just could not discard it. 
The darkness of the beautiful antique frame anchors this center section.

 The concrete yard art that I made (here) complements the two cement birds and the cement fragment. 
 

 The split bamboo bird cage has been around for a long time and just sits around waiting to be used somewhere.

Night shot ... a string of white lights is needed for an otherwise dark fireplace. 

90% of the items used in this decoration were thrifted. 

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Selling, purging, donating and going to a garage sale.

We had just had a subdivision garage sale two week prior ... 

I sold a ton of stuff.

I purged a lot

donated two loads to the Thrifts

and 

here we are at a neighbor's garage sale.

 She had taken part in the neighborhood sale but she is moving and had a ton of stuff. This was the second day and she was pricing out at 50¢ and $1.00.

I had picked out eight things, plus some jewelry and I figured it to be $8.50 ... but she charged me $5.00.

I offered the $8.50, but she refused. 

  The silverplated cake stand was still in the original plastic and original box.

Did not even need to be polished. Happy !

The large silver tray with attached bowl 

was selected by Mr. Z. ...

he polished it and he gave it to our daughter. 

 Solid brass and quite old ... considered for eBay sale.

Nice vintage wooden tray ... 

handles are knotted on the bottom and make feet.

decals will be removed and may be painted 

for a coastal (beachy) look.

 Just could not resist these little vintage glass hobnail trays.

May use for a votive candles as they are indented in the middle.

Costume jewelry will be used for crafts.

 Then when leaving, I spotted this garden bench ...

$10.00 

how could I pass that up? 

Well, I should have ... 

rotten boards and a lot of work.

We replace all except the two boards in the back.

They were bad, but I filled the weathered cracks, a lot of sanding and they looked okay. 

The pieces for the circles had to be special cut. 

A little problem with that, but got it done using our band saw on a 5% bevel cut.

Mr. Z. cleaned up the metal frame and I did the boards. 

 
Painted it barn red and sprayed it with poly. 

Dry brushed the flower basket with white to bring out the design.

Remember the before ...  

And now the after ...

 

 Sitting pretty in front our wood-working shop. 

Have a little more landscaping to do. 

Some bloggers have expressed interest in the pitchforks so here is a link to a post I did when I first started blogging.


Yes, that other garden bench to the right is next in line for a make-over. We used to have a fish pond in front of it and our grandson and I usually ate our lunch there everyday and watched the fish. (he recycled aluminum cans to buy fish)

Thanks for the visit ... 

would like for you to stay awhile and have a glass 

of Texas sweet tea?

Blessings,

Audrey Z.  

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