Wind Chimes made from recycled items

Crocheted scrap yarn GIANT blanket

I have this habit of buying yarn at yard sales and rummage sales. I really have to stop I took all the blues and greys and crocheted them into this giant blanket. It covers a cal king!

Moxie enjoys lots of pillows!

Recycled Plastic card quilt

Been working on this for a while now. Its made out of recycled credit cards, hotel key cards and gift cards. The frame is a mattress spring from my kids crib which we bought 30 years ago. It has been used as a pea trellis in the garden. I cut the cards in half so they would fit into the spaces. Drilled holes in each end and wired them to the frame. Took me a while because my fingers would get raw from twisting the wire. I just love it!

                                    I added a copper pipe frame to it to make it easier to handle
                                          so I could enter it into the Marin County Fair.

                                                       Here it is on display at the Marin County Fair

                                                      I named it "Same as it ever was"

                                        And here in the center is my other recycled plastic piece I entered.

                                   This ones called  "And she could hear the highway breathing"

Shopping bags made from Fabric Sample Books

I have been making a bunch of these. Love having pretty bags for shopping.

Chickens

been a bit busy with our four new chicks. Building them a new coop run and nesting boxes. Today I hung some art in their coop. Truly the walls in my house are a bit full and anywhere I find a blank wall I must hang art!

This Edina, she is the friendliest chicken I have ever known. She comes and sits on my lap every time I visit the coop. You can see the produce labels I hung on the wall.

Still have to lay the stepping stone patio in front of the chicken coop.

Pillow cover for huge down pillow

Years ago when my first child was born we were given a down feather bed for a baby. I have had this thing tucked away in an old trunk. I just gave away the trunk and had this huge, 30 x 30 inch down pillow with no place to belong. It is red. It is so soft and fluffy I figured I should make a pillow case for it. I dug through my fabric hoard and found this piece of remnant that I love. 

Of course there wasn't enough of it to cover both side of the pillow but situations like this spark my creativity. The next day I was responding to an email about a quilt show a friend was at and I mentioned I had bought a piece of red work on ebay thinking I could use it to finish an old red work quilt top I inherited that was made in 1886. The fabric wasn't a good match as it wasn't over 100 years old and the quilt top is so I put the small red work away thinking I would find something to do with it.

I thought the red work and the red berries in this fabric would be a nice match. I spread it out and once again there wasn't enough fabric to entirely cover one side of my giant pillow. I dug into my box of trim thinking I could patchwork pieces until I get it bigger. I found a light blue stack of fat quarters
and some red seam binding. I made some red piping and found a blue 20 inch zipper.

Here is the finished giant fluffy pillow! 

New Bird Bath

I saw a lamp at goodwill that was the color of terra cotta. I have several flower pot trays in the same color and thought what a great bird bath I cold make with that.

Here is the lamp.

                                                            

And here is the bird bath