Once a mailbox......
lady_alicia Zone 5/6 PA
12 years ago
.....now a toilet paper holder! I finally finished it, folks!!
It holds 4 rolls of toilet paper. Cost me $3 for the mailbox at a garage sale, $3 for the fleur de lis knob, and then everything else I had. The skeleton key was given to me (everyone knows I love junk), then I used a button and attached beads to it that I had from the end of a scarf, along with this gold chain that had hearts attached to it that was from a shirt I used to have. Then there's a fleur de lis push pin hook that I had in my junk drawer. Have no clue where I got it. I just kind of added things as I went along.
I did a shabby chic paint effect, although it's very hard to see that in the picture unfortunately.
At one point I thought it needed something else, but I try to go with the saying "less is more" because I'm afraid to make things look junky.
What do all of you think? Does it need something else? I've looked at it so much that I can't tell anymore. :)
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Comments (23)That is great! In addition to the handlebar streamers don't forget one of those little baskets on the front of the little bike. A little white basket with flowers or maybe a stuffed puppy peeking out the top :D...See Morerotating photos once loaded
Comments (4)if it were me... i would go find the camera.. and use my phone.. for.. get this.. phone calls... lol ... your self effacing comments entertained me ... thx ken see if this will help .. i dont do this technology.. so i am winging it.. but find out what the default is on your phone.. landscape or portrait.. and insure that you take the pix.. in that orientation ... if you are presuming its one way.. and its the other... that MIGHT be your base problem .... e.g. if your phone is in portrait.. but you keep turning your phone into landscape... like most of us do for the garden.. then you are the one rotating it.. but the phone is 'marking it' as portrait.. so when its posted.. its turned......See MoreMailbox meets Snow Plow
Comments (21)About that 1914 date, my fingers do not know what my mind is thinking. We have been living on this street for 38 years and this is the first snow plow destructuve hit. I used to get small damages from the snow coming off the plow until I installed a box brand named, "Iron Box". It looks like a regular box, but is made of 1/8 inch thick steel. It is weighty. Our Post Office has specifications about how high the the box should be and the distance from the curb, so I do not have much variance about placement. Outside of town, a few boxes are mounted on a "swing-away" arrangement. The box is mounted on a long pole much like a fishing pole. When it gets hit, it merely swings out of the way like a garden gate. The problem with this sort of mount is making is steady enough so it won't be a nusiance for the Postman to operate. Here in town, such a mount is impractical because the support post would be in my neighbor's yard and a nusiance for him. (The Post Office has mandated that all boxes be on the same side of the street with the result that half of us have boxes on the other side of the road and next to our neighbor's lawn. Although the sodded area goes all the way to the curb, the lot lines do not. I try to keep all my stuff on the outside of my neighbor's lot line.) The Village has agreed to replace the post. There are buried wires a mere couple of inches away from the post. These maybe phone lines. I'm happy to off-load that responsibility to them. They'll need to contact the Digggers Hot Line before punching a hole for the new post....See MoreMaking new starts of sedum Autumn Joy: too late once blooming?
Comments (7)If you are pulling up roots then you are deminishing that plant. Every Spring I cut five or six stems from the back side of my plant where it would not be visible when they are about 5 in tall. Then scratch a spot in the garden or a flower pot and place them there and water. They root very easily. I must have done that over 30 times and given away a healthy plant every year....See Morelady_alicia Zone 5/6 PA
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