More Outdoor Winter Decorations

Okay, so I have another fun outside wintery-looking project for you gals today.  I actually did this project for Christmas, but decided to leave it up longer because it's not too Christmasy (like my wreath).


First, I found these shiny gold vases at Target on clearance for a mere $6.49 each.  Woo Hoo!  You absolutely cannot beat that price.  I had some ideas for these vases -- not that I don't love some brassy gold vases for my front door -- I just though a silvery tint would be a little more seasonal. :)

So I first primed these lovelies;

then I painted them with some of my brand new Krylon Stainless Steel spray paint.  This stuff is AWESOME you guys -- I got it from Krylon to try out and BOY do I love this finish!  It didn't run or get puddled like some spray paints do -- so it gets and A+ in my book!

I also found some branches around our property that were tall and had lots of little "fingers" on them.  I painted these with some white spray paint (is there anything that doesn't look good coated in a white paint!?!)  I did quite a few coats of this stuff just to make sure I could use them again next year without them getting all chippy.

I wanted some red berry-type objects to put on the ends of some of my cute white branches.  

And I happened to find these wooden "beads" that I chose to cover in a layer of dark red spray paint.
 

What do you think of those?  Ready to see them on my white branches??

And finally, I added some pine tree branches to my white-berry branches and placed them in my vases outside my door.  I LOVE these!  Unfortunately our driveway apron is a bit slanty so my larger vase was tipping over at first.  But then enter our ridiculous amount of snow and I was able to prop it up with it.

It kind of goes with my wreath from last week, don't you think??

 

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It's All in the Numbers - Part Deux!

Well as promised last week (when I shared with you a house number makeover).....I have a second set of house numbers to show you.

This time we wanted to redo our house number sign down by the street.  As you can see ours was a little scary and should have been replaced quite some time ago.(Tetanus shot anyone?!?)

Originally I had wanted to do this from Roeshel at The DIY Showoff:

I can't even tell you how much I wanted these little lovelies in my yard (with my numbers of course!).  They are adorable!  I had been saving this idea in my "project-to-do" folder on my computer for months trying to figure out if I could  finagle this into the front of our house.

Sadly we couldn't find a good spot to put them where they could be seen from the street (and believe me we tried everywhere!) So for now I'm left to admire these.....

So that brought us back to square one...trying to come up with an idea for our hose numbers.  I absolutely loved the idea of incorporating flowers and plants in my house numbers.

That's when it came to me -- a flower box!  I should note before I go too far that I could have made this project much easier on myself....and just bought a window planter.  Sometimes I don't think of these things until I'm half way through with whatever mess I've started.  Needless to say, if I ever have to redo this project I'll give up the moo-la and splurge for the super-cute window boxes. 

Okay, back to the project.  I picked up some new house numbers ($1.49 each at Home Depot) and nailed them to the front of my "window box".

If you're curious about the box -- I unfortunately do not have instructions -- but How Does She has a wonderful tutorial on an adorable window box. Or you can always buy one if you find a good deal.  Side Note:  Of course when I checked the paper yesterday, I saw Menards has adorable window-boxes on sale for $6.00!!

Mine was made out of some left over scraps I had, so it didn't cost me anything.  Gotta love that!

After I built my box, I attached it to the current post that was at the end of our driveway.







Then I filled the box with dirt and flowers and gave them a nice long drink of water....have I mentioned it's been in the high 90's here?!?

And there you have it!  A much-improved-tetanus-free-flower little house number sign.

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