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Repurposed Salt Shaker Plant Stake
by
Vicky Kloppenborg
(IC: blogger)
1 Material
2 Hours
Easy
I couldn’t help myself, just one more garden stake. I don’t want to run a good thing into the ground, but this one is just so quick and easy I had to do!
As I was cleaning up some of my latest messes, I came across this small pair of shakers. I picked them up at a garage sale somewhere along the way, thinking at the time that they would be cute on a small plant stake. Since I had them in my hand and still had lamp pieces and bits laying around, why not?
Nail a pilot hole in the lid. Drill a 1/4″ hole. Use small pliers to straighten out or bend jagged edges, just until a length of 5/16″ threaded rod will fit through it easily, you don’t want the hole any bigger than it has to be. My rod was a scrap piece, 20″ long, so I just left it that way.
I like to experiment quite a bit, and have a habit of throwing odd little pieces of glass in a kiln to see what they will do. It was in some of my trials that I found a wonderful pale green bottle spout, PERFECT! I got to thinking about all the bags of pretty round, resin napkin rings I often see at sales, they might work in something like this. Might have to start giving them a second look.
I found an awesome new glue last week. It looked like it would work great on a lot of the projects I do, so I grabbed a tube to try. Otherwise I would have used E6000 or another silicone glue.
There! Enough of the garden stakes, for this year anyway. Thanks for bearing with me as I worked through my obsession.
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Published August 6th, 2016 3:13 PM
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Organized Clutter on Aug 10, 2016Clever idea!
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Maggie Carr maggiecarr1954@gmail.com on Sep 24, 2016Well, I don't know about the rest of you...but, I am off to find some glass salt and pepper shakers...this is just way too cool...I am so excited!
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