I love Thanksgiving.  I’ve been thinking of something to do around the house to stir up feelings of gratitude and praise.  I tried a drawing on our dry erase cabinets, and it was an epic fail.  I sort of fell into making this “Give Thanks” Sign from Upcycled Landscape Edging- with the perfect amount of “rusty patina”.

For months, I’ve been meaning to remove these “tufts of ugliness” in our yard (old pic!):

I finally got around to it when I was tearing down our Fall decor that was looking a bit ratty this week.  I’ve been a little hesitant to dig out the tufts, because I wasn’t sure how terrible some round dirt spots would look in the yard.  Actually, the real reason is that we have a snake friend that’s living in the right one…………………………………..  I didn’t want to destroy his habitat

I finally got brave and pulled up the edging, pulled out the ugly plants, and weeded a bit.  It doesn’t look so bad after all and I didn’t have a snake sighting.  Phew.

What I had left were some cool rusty edging circles, that I decided to make a project out of. Continue reading →