A
long time ago my dear friend, Alaina, over at Recycled Interiors, gave me
this vintage, yellow, glass dish and I love it! I wasn’t quite sure
what to do with it though...I had it on my kitchen counter for a while
but felt like it could have so much more potential somewhere else. It
just seemed to be over looked.
For
some reason, one day when we were at Goodwill (how most of our stories
start out…), I got on this kick about silverware. They had a plastic bin
full of knives, spoons, forks..all for like 10 cents each. I just
couldn’t get over it and thought, there’s got to be something cool I can
do with all this decorative silver. So I bought a bag full of knives
and spoons. I left them in the garage for a while not having a clue what
I was going to do with all of them and then a creative spark fired off
in my brain! I could bend them and make a frame to hold the glass dish
for a bird bath!
I picked out
some of the prettier knives...
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| detail of knife |
...and bent them all at the same place/angle
with a clamp and hammer and the help of my husbands muscles. Definitely wear hearing protection-it got very
loud. I measured the circumference of the dish so I would know where to
bend my knives so that the dish would fit in snug.
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| Bent knives |
Then in the
“blade” part of the knife, Ryan drilled a hole in all 6 knives at the
same spot. After that we threaded a bolt through them to hold them all
together. We had a hollow silver metal pole laying in the garage that
already had a female end in it (Ryan used a size bolt that would thread
into it). We cut off the pole at about 3.5 feet and I spray painted it
black. Then we threaded the bolt with all the knives onto the pole. After that it was ready to be stuck in the ground.
And
here it is finished with the dish - a vintage bird bath! The birds love
it, it’s just the right depth for them to get in and it adds a little
character to my garden.
