Showing posts with label chicken wire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken wire. Show all posts

Wire Cloche Topiaries Can Create That Farmhouse Feel in Your Home

September 15, 2012

I'm a farmhouse kind of girl.  Do I have one?  Nope.  Do I want one? Yep.  Will I get one?  Probably not.  Odds are slim that it'll ever happen, but I can still decorate my home with things that create a farmhouse feel. Enter the wire cloche.



 

I'm so enamored with them that I've started my own Pinterest board dedicated to them. So it stands to reason that I'd own a few of my own, right?  Right.
For me, it all started with two of these.

Chicken wire cloches on a pedestal.  L.O.V.E. them.  I got them at JoAnn's for around $8.00 each with my coupon.  But I just wasn't sure what to display in them.  Whatever it was had to be tall, and not cost a lot of money.  So they sat.  And they sat.  And after sitting some more they finally called out to me with the answer.

Topiaries.  I picked this one up at Goodwill for $1.99.  I knew from just looking at it that it would be perfect.  So cute, and the porcelain pot is white, my current favorite color.  Yet it still left me with another cloche to fill.

Recently on another trip to Goodwill I spied this.

What's that you say?  It's a Christmas topiary?  Look again, people.

All it took was a firm resolve on my part to yank off the Christmas decorations and then saw (yes, saw) some of the really thick wooden dowel off to make it all short enough to fit within the cloche.  That was by far the hardest part.  But once I sawed it down to size, I stuck it in some floral foam and placed the whole thing in a vintage green milk glass egg cup I had in my china cabinet.  Not bad for $2.99.

Then I experimented with a few vignettes.

Here they're displayed with the tool box I revamped twice (once with a paint job here and once with a French graphic transfer here)  and filled with silk artichokes I got on clearance at Target.

  Um, this was a big N-O.

Um, N-O again.


Then I finally found it.

Looks like they found their home.  At least for now.

 Hope you have a great week!

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Industrial Farmhouse Lidded Wire Jar

August 21, 2012

Seems we've been inundated with wire "stuff" lately.  Have you noticed?  Surprisingly, I have warmed up to the notion of decorating with this wire stuff and now I'm obsessed with it.


You can even see my "Wire Baskets" board on my Pinterest page here." Understandably, then, I'm on the prowl for this stuff everywhere I go.  Enter my latest acquisition.


Does anybody know what this green stuff's called???  Beats me.

All I know is I spied this wire container at Goodwill the other day for $1.99 and said "Whoa!"   Antique Farmhouse (who I love btw), would charge beaucoup bucks for this, empty! Not that I liked the weird green filling, though, that's for sure.

But if you have "THE EYE" you can spot a a diamond in the rough from a mile away, right?  I did the happy dance, threw it in my cart and whistled my way to the checkout.  I had plans for this baby.


Much better looking this way, no?


Sorry about the fuzzy pictures.  I swear that someday I'll figure out how to use my camera.  Really.

Oh, and hey -- does anyone know how to actually "center" pictures from Pinterest that you embed into your blog post?  Cause I clearly don't!

But I digress.  I am loving my industrial farmhouse chic wire container.  Just think of all the things I can fill it with.  Right now I'm picturing mini pumpkins and/or gourds.  And then maybe vintage Christmas ornaments.  And then maybe dried hydrangea flower heads....   

What would YOU put in it?  I'd love to know!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

One more week and we're back to school!

xoxo


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