Sewed some dresses. All scrap material I had on hand, cost: a few hours of my time.
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I spruced up a couple chairs with paint and roses. They now reside in front of my sewing table. Cost: zero, the chairs came with a table I had bought at a thrift store eons ago and I just had them in storage.
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I crocheted a cardigan that I still love out of bamboo cotton yarn. Cost: $30
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We made our straw bale mini greenhouse garden. It worked fantastic last Spring and now I need to toss in some lettuce and spinach seeds to get started. Cost: 6 bales of straw at $7 each. The lumber was scrap we had on hand and the plastic was too. Total = $42.00
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I bought an incubator to hatch chicks. My first batch of Swedish Flower hens. This was so much fun I did it again with Black Copper Maran eggs. Cost for incubator about $150 (which worked great!), the eggs ran about $50, this is a new breed to the US so the hatching eggs are pricy, but a hen alone if $50 to purchase so the eggs were the way to go.
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We built a faux pew bench from plywood.
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One of the most popular posts this year was this on of the old buckets stacked and planted. I did enjoy this all summer. I think I would like to make a real fountain out of buckets this next summer.
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Another highly popular post was this one on How to Paint a vintage saloon sign.
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I also shared tons of signs I shipped out to my wonderful customers. Now I am working hard on a new website, trying to improve and make it easier to navigate.
I am looking forward to another productive and exciting year!
Have a great day.
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