A new year and lots of new exciting challenges for our international blogger’s group. Our first challenge this year is the “Pallet parade”. The challenge is to create something using pallets. More about IBC is at the bottom of this post. With Valentine’s day just around the corner, I wanted to create a pallet wood heart and I used the scraps to make some wooden robots to make a cute wall hanging.
I was recently given a few wooden pallets to make projects out from. They are a very cheap way to make projects because most of the time you can get the pallets for free. But there is a downside to working with them, the main one is you need to be Hercules to get them apart. I always thought I was strong until I tackled a pallet.
For the last few weeks, Pinterest has been flooding my newsfeed with DIY bird Feeders so I took it as a sign to make one. I am not a big fan of birds, but my sister loves them. On a daily basis, she has loads of king parrots that come to her house for feeding. She has been feeding them for so many years now they will even eat out of her hands.
This week’s post is the next challenge for our international blogger’s Club (IBC). More about IBC at the end of this post. Our challenge this month is to create a project using broken china. I live in a small country town in the middle of Woop Woop with access to only two charity shops in which to hunt for china items. Unfortunately, all the china they had in store was a little pricy for me to smash up for a project. So as a last resort I had to dig around in my cupboards at home. I had this old teapot which I thought would look great as a teapot birdhouse with a feeder.
My sister asked if I would be able to make her a pallet daybed for her entertainment area. She wanted the daybed to be big enough for 2 people to sit comfortably on and wanted it to be sturdy. Her entertainment area is sheltered but when we get heavy rain it does get wet. That is why she chose to have the daybed made from pallets.
My daughter asked me to make her a simple wall shelf for her new home. She has a modem box mounted in the middle of her wall with wires running down the wall to a table. The idea was to have a shelf mounted on the wall for the modem to sit in so she can get rid of the table which was in the way. She did not want anything fancy just a basic wall shelf.
This project was next on the list of projects my daughter wanted me to make for her new home. They are very spoilt and have a large spa in their back garden where they spend a lot of time. They ask if I could make them a Pallet Wall bar that they can mount on the wall next to the spa for drink and snacks while chilling in the spa. No more balancing that wine glass on the side of the spa only to be knocked over and good wine gets wasted.
If you look through my website you will see that nearly all my projects have been made using recycled materials. This has enabled me to keep my hobby going with very little cost to myself for materials. 5 Years ago I decided I wanted to start woodworking as a hobby. Between my husband and son, we had a shed full of tools that just sat there. Because I had no training or skills I was always stuck doing basic boring projects for fear of messing it up and the wood being wasted. And wood is not cheap.