My dishwasher has been on the fritz for a while. This means a lot of handwashing of dishes, as well as a lot of letting dishes pile up in the sink. Since I end up spending a lot of time at the sink, and haven't quite figured out how to fix the dishwasher, I've decided the view out my window needs some arting up. There's a photinia tree out there, and I've been trying to keep its undersides trimmed up. I've also come into some steel strapping. I had a vision to make these orbs and found the hardest part finding a way to drill through the steel. I discovered that Mike's Merchandise had some hard metal bits, and those seem to do the trick. I cut the strips to the size I wanted, and made orbs of a few different sizes, held together with pop rivets. One key is to clamp the pieces together and drill through both. A little bit of spray paint in bright colors, and a little fishing line to hang them in an unobtrusive way, and now I have something pretty to look at while I wash dishes.
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| The view out my kitchen window. You can't really see the orbs out there but they're there |
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| Here they are, with my chickens. I use that pallet for a step ladder into the canopy. |
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| Orange |
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| Yellow-green |
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| Green |
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| A little oblong red one |
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| And a big purple one |
