This is what I do with vintage garden tools without handles? Turn them into cool magnetic boards.
First of all, I had to make sure this piece was magnetic. It was.
Then I roughed up the surface of these magnets.
I white washed the metal with white gesso, and painted the magnets blue. When I white washed the magnets, I noticed that they looked like tiny pieces of slate. COOL. I used my vintage stamps to spell "le jardin" (The Garden).
I attached blue string for hanging.
Love it, love it, love it.
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First of all, I had to make sure this piece was magnetic. It was.
Then I roughed up the surface of these magnets.
I white washed the metal with white gesso, and painted the magnets blue. When I white washed the magnets, I noticed that they looked like tiny pieces of slate. COOL. I used my vintage stamps to spell "le jardin" (The Garden).
I attached blue string for hanging.
Love it, love it, love it.
Sharing With:
Funky Junk Interiors: Saturday Nite Special
Remodelaholic: Remodelaholics Anonymous
French Country Cottage: Feathered Nest Friday
The Shabby Nest: Frugal Friday
At The Picket Fence: Inspiration Friday
My Repurposed Life: Catch as Catch Can
Common Ground: Vintage Inspiration Friday
The Shabby Creek Cottage: Transformation Thursday
These Peas Taste Funny: Link It Up Thursday
Beyond The Picket Fence: Under $100 Linky Party
No Minimalist Here: Open House
Savvy Southern Style: Wow Us Wednesdays
DIY by Design: Winter Blues Wednesday
Faded Charm: White Wednesday
Thrifty Decor Chick: Before and After
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia: Tuesdays Treasures
Knick of Time: Knick of Time Tuesday
Coastal Charm: Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
51 comments:
Rosemary, you are such a creative woman! I bet your brain never slows down. Love this!
Cute and creative, Rosemary! It's so fun to reuse old tools for new, {but old-looking} purposes!
I hope you'll come share this tonight at the Knick of Time Tuesday party!
Blessings,
Angie @ Knick of Time
Very creative!
Cute, cute, cute! So creative and another use for broken garden tools!
Love this, Rosemary! I could definitely see this hanging in a garden!
I love it, love it, love it, too! What a great idea! Will this possibly show up on Etsy???
Girl! Do you ever run out of creativity?!LOL!! This is adorable!! Would be very cute in my courtyard...hint, hint!
What a cool idea!!!
Love that idea!
What a great piece you created. That would be such a wonderful gift for a gardener too.
Thanks for sharing how to transform those ho-hum magnets into Scrabble-esque pieces (which would probably be hard to find and expensive). You have the BEST ideas!
Super great idea, unique and gorgeous, I love it:-) Hugs, Biljana
I could see this by the back door or on the side of a garden shed, what a fun way to say welcome to the garden. You have done it again. Richard from My Old Historic House.
You are so creative....LOVE THIS!
Looks great!! Anything magnetic becomes a memo/photo holder at my house too :) Love that white washed look! Laurel
How creative Rosemary! Love the magnets!!
Sheesh Rosemary, how do you come up with all these things!!! Love it!
I ordered some gorgeous push pins off Etsy for my Villabarnes cork board yesterday:)
love this idea I love to flea market and will keep my eye out for items like this come see what I shared at http://shopannies.blogsot.com
Cute cute cute!!!
Lovely and soinnovative :O)
Big HUG
Agneta
Oh, that is nifty!
Sherry
This is a fabulous idea and I just bought an old pink rusty dust pan. I can do this project with that.
That is really cool and very creative.
Picking my jaw up off the ground -- amazing!
Amazing my sweet Rosemarry...I just can't get over at how talented and creative you are! I can't really do the things you do, I can embroider, cook and eat, lol! Thanks for your lovely visit. Happy Valentine's and how I wish I could have you for tea too, my friend! You never know in life.
FABBY
Rosemary,
girl, you are the cleverest! (is that a word)? Well, even if it's not, you are! That opens so many possibities! It's adorable!
Rebecca
This is fabulous! So creative... I love it. I'm going to be on the lookout for an old garden tool now.
What a fabulous idea! I'm going out and taking all my husband's tools. lol
I Love it, Love it too! You are just too creative Rosemary! One of these days I am going to have to take the time and create something with your tutorials on white washing and painting with gesso. I just Love the Look of your work!!
Huggs, Nancy
Sweet idea! You could make a bunch of letters and make it a "sale" sign outside a shop! xo wendy
This is so creative! Now I know what to do with all of my old, rusty garden tools that's been left thrown about outside...actually, let me go collect them now before I forget. Thanks for sharing.
Super cute and so creative!!
Such a great idea! And I love the chair you redid recently! Somehow you fell off my blog roll....don't know what happened!
Lorraine
What a great idea. I love primitive old garden tools. In fact, I never met one I didn't like.
Very creative idea. Thanks so much for becoming a follower of L'Heure Bleue At Home. I appreciate it and am following you back!
Rosemary, Your always so Clever & Creative....
What a brilliant idea! I love it!! I need to have a look around at our old tools to see if I can blatantly copy you!!
I am so enjoying browsing through your blog - how gorgeous!! I've signed up to follow you!
Sarahx
What a creative idea, I love the piece you used. It looks wonderful.
I have one similar and the handle is hollow, there is always rosemary or something cut and tucked in. Thanks for sharing. Kathy
I love, love, love the magnet board out of old tools!! Now I will be watching at garage sales!
Nancy
What a great idea. Love it!
Mary Alice
I tried your old world treatment on a small statue I have, lol, absolutely pitiful I tell ya!!!!
You have such a knack!
Love love love your blog
Suzan
You are so clever! I love this! It is funny because my business partner just brought three shovel heads home from the salvage yard yesterday and we were trying to think of a way to reuse them. This is perfect-I am sending her your post.
Dang girl! If I gave you a piece of poop you'd probably be able to change it into something I'd LOVE to have! Lol! Yes I'm pulling your leg....but not too hard *winks* Love this idea! Vanna
That is really cool!
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What a great creative idea! I love the magnets.
blessings,
karianne
You are so talented. i am one of your Linky followers and Fb too. Don't want to miss anything you do. Thank you for sharing your creativity.
I love this Rosemary!! SO charming- you always have such fantastic ideas!! Thanks for linking it up!
Rosemary-I love your garden magnet board! that is so clever! Thanks so much for sharing @ catch as catch can!
gail
You are so very clever! I would never have thought of doing this! Thank you for sharing with us at Link It Up Thursday.
Thanks again for linking up Rosemary- sharing this at tonights party :)
I never would have thought about using gesso. What an awesome idea! Thanks for a great post. I'm going to go dig through the barn now! I've got lots of cast away tools out there! xoxo Lorelei
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