Hubcap Heaven...(mini tutorial)

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You can see what got me so excited this past week.
(Pinterest is a great place to check them out too!)

It all started out here at Pull and Pay!

I must say, it was a first for me.

Not sure I'm all that thrilled, over scrounging thru old yucky wrecked cars.

My fear was finding rats or snakes crawling out of them.

My youngest who had never been any place like this either, was more worried about finding dead bodies in the cars!

LOL!!

When you go in and ask where you can find hubcaps, the guy asks for what model car. I said, all different ones and he looked at me like I was an idiot! Once I explained what I was doing, he just rolled his eyes at me!

I'm sure he thought...here's another stupid woman.

:-)

It was an experience. I was filthy from head to toe when it was done, but I had managed to find all the hubcaps I needed for $2.99 a piece.

We pressure washed and spray painted them.

Pretty cool looking now!

I used a couple of different Rust-Oleum paints, and both seemed to work well.

Next I set out to make flowers in the centers of each of the hubcaps.

I'm no artist, but even I managed to get something that didn't look too bad. :-)  I roughly painted a flower. (Rough being the key word) LOL!

Then found that by adding dots, I could cover up a world of sins, in my painting. Adding a dot where each petal meets, then filling in between.

Use the handle end of a small round paintbrush from the craft stores.

They make perfect dots! You will want to dip it into the paint for every couple of dots to get nice results.

The variety of different hubcaps makes for a great garden!

I'm really partial to this style of hubcap.

I've got no idea what it came off of, but it sure is cool looking!

It makes me happy, seeing whole bloomin' bunch!

I started out using an Acrylic paint, but they were too flat looking and I wasn't really sure how they would hold up in the weather.

Then I found these paints at Wal-Mart.

They are made for painting on glass...

I'm hoping that they hold up out doors.

It sounds to me like they should...

time will tell.

I've bought re-bar for the stems and hubby is going to cut out a bunch of metal leaves as soon as I make a pattern for them.

Where is all this going you ask???

On my faux "outhouse"

The toilet planters are in full bloom and soon the sides of this little building will be blooming too!

:-)

I've done a little recycling along the way.

This is my sister -in-laws bike from when she was a kid.

Heck, it's almost an antique now!

LOL!!

The past couple of days, I've been working on a couple of little fences for the sides of the out house.

I'm hoping that in a week or so, I'll have this project done!

;-)

I know it's been a long winded post...

but I've got to share what's happening in my "hood"

I kept hearing all this racket!

And found that in both of my pine trees, we had new families move in!

The guys on the bottom's eyes are not even open here.

Too cute huh!

Til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

(cause I haven't for a week now)

tee hee hee