Give Your Old Nut Bowl a New Life
by
Choyce
1 Material
$1
3 Hours
Easy
I bought this nut bowl at a thrift store, thinking I'd use it at the holidays, but it never suited in with my decor. So I decided to take it outdoors!
This nut bowl screaming for a new life!
I hunted around the sheds for the things I would need to make a wind chime out of this bowl. I wanted to keep it simple, so I did no refinishing on anything and used only found objects.
Supplies
I gathered up the following:
5 pieces of copper tubing, left over from a plumbing job, all different lengths.
A wooden lid from a candle, for the banger
A large pine cone that I found in Florida
5 small eye hooks
fishing line
yarn (not pictured) I wanted to use twine, but had none
one large eye hook for hanging
Tools
As stated before, I wanted to keep it simple, so used only hand tools. Awl, pencil hammer and pliers. I also used some scissors.
I drew around the banger as a template so I'd know where to put in the little eye hooks. Hammered in some starter holes with the awl.
Using some yarn (twine would work too) I threaded it through some of the eye hooks, then tied it off at the center , then threaded the yard through the banger, in which I had drilled a hole.
Using just a sharp nail and a vise, I hammered holes in the pipes, then threaded them with fishing line. I had tried using wire, but the pipes didn't ring nicely with the wire through them. Then I threaded the fishing line of each pipe onto the eye hooks.
Finished wind chime.
To hang the wind chime, I screwed a large eye hook into the bottom, now the top, of the bowl. Then the banger was set so all the pipes would hit it, then I tied on the pine cone, which acts as a sail, sort of, for the wind to move everything.
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I got one of those bowls. Used it once! I may have everything right here. Except the big hook.
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Have fun with the nut bowl, and if you have any questions, just ask!
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Clever! I think the bowl would be cute with succulents in it too, right side up of course.
Frequently asked questions
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What lengths should the copper pipes be cut to?
Have you found that the rough edges of the copper pipes cuts the fishing line? That seems to be how my wind chimes (store-bought) fall apart.