Vintage Kitchen Strainer Birds Nest for Spring
Deep inside this box of the most perfectly rusted and chipped vintage kitchen items were a few small old strainers.
I set my sights on up-cycling these treasures first.
I just love working with vintage kitchen items, you can read about several I made by visiting the bold link.
And see those vintage clothespins?
They are now my favorite carrots for Easter!!
I began by bending each one to a 90 degree angle.
Next, I grabbed a piece of fence picket I found on the side of the road and cut it to size.
I painted the board white with a coat of DecoArt chalk paint.
I used an old paintbrush and gave it one quick sloppy coat because the next step will be to sand off some of the paint, especially around the edges.
Now I was ready to create a nest.
I had an old pre-made nest that I stuck into the old strainer with hot glue.
I added a few neutral colored speckled eggs and a buffalo check ribbon.
One screw and a little hot glue hold the strainer to the distressed picket.
How adorable is this nest?!!
This was so quick and easy I immediately whipped up another, smaller nest.
This time I used a flat piece of the picket, painted it white, distressed it and hung a much smaller strainer on the board.
This little nest was made with crinkled paper and filled with speckled eggs.
I screwed it to the board then covered the screw with the leaf of a speckled egg pick.
Ya know I'll be making several more and I'm hoping to add them to my Etsy shop soon.
You can read about the vintage cheese grater I repurposed by visiting this link.
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