Ruby Throated Sparrow: MORE FUN AT THE RE-STORE...

If you remember from my previous post that featured many of my inspirations and ideas there was a photo of a wall covered in hanging planters made from re-cycled gutters and filled with lettuce.. Great idea right? So last time I went to the Re-store I found these beauties... They are sturdy, straight metal gutters that actually have a cute scalloped edge on the outward facing side... one is about 10 feet long and the other about 6 feet long... I am planning on painting them white and mounting them on the sunniest wall outside my cabin.. I am still deciding if I want to cut them into shorter pieces, put screen on the ends, drill drainage holes and stack them or if i want to leave them long and just tilt them slightly so they drain out the ends... I will letcha know.. Apparently this is the hot new trend in around these parts because when I went to the Re-store and was carrying these out I had two of the attendants ask me if I was using them as planters! Ha,,, up-cyclers UNITE!

This is such a GREAT score! This is a huge, heavy bottomed stock pot perfect for canning, stewing and feeding the troops! Only 6$!!

Cool wooden framed metal vent that slides back and forth... Not sure what for yet... Any Ideas? (probably will just be decoration of some sort)

This is a super score! I'm not so into the colors but the green matches the free dark green tile that we salvaged and is going into my newly painted bathroom, so the fact that it goes perfectly with my colors and was only 2$ means I can be happy with it~

TOTALLY EXCITED! I have been wanting and looking for a bed frame for about a year now.. Most of the ones I found on Craig's List were really expensive or to far away to go pick up. So when I saw this mission style, solid wood fixer upper for only 25$ I jumped at the opportunity. My plan is to sand it down and either stain or paint it. I am looking forward to the storage provided by having my bed off the ground and the finished look it will create in the studio.

We found about 3x this amount in the garden section of the store.. some of them are dirty or broken but in this case it is worth the extra effort to save some real money, these were only 15 cents each. Always check with your local garden store, nursery, or Re-Store for used pony packs, flats and pots, often times they will give you a bulk deal.. Never hurts to ask.

This looks to me like a old piece of office storage equipment. Well once its lined with coco mat or peat moss it will be a great shallow planter for lettuce... This will look good with the other metal baskets I bought.

I grabbed a few handfuls of these nuts and washers from the tools and home repair section. I'm cooking up some creative decorative ideas with these already...