Dandi's chicken coop decorated for Fall!
The addition of blue in the traditional warm Fall color scheme makes this chicken coop dazzle and delight! Dandi Gentry made her chickens the stars of this colorful little scene and the focal point is her stunning stained glass window of a rooster. She stuck with French and Cobalt blues, orange and buttery yellow with a tiny bit of pink.
Pumpkins, orange, white and mini, Straw, Raffia, spray paint and craft paint, waterproof sealer, fresh mums, gourds
A pumpkin appears to spill out of a bucket over top of a galvanized tub of Chrysanthemum.
To make the oil can Jack-o-Lantern, make paper stencils of the pumpkin face. Use sharpie to trace the shapes in place on the can. Have a welder cut out the shapes. Let rust,…of course!
“Fall project, painted my old broken shovel heads!” Dandy tells us.
Dandy says, “So I may have seriously gone crazy! Its 10pm on a Saturday night, and what am I doing?!? Digging under the porch with a flashlight, trying to find some old shovel heads!!
It all started out innocent enough….a quiet evening looking at Pinterest but then I had to have an idea! So here I am…. quietly contemplating my sanity as I paint my shovel orange!”
“I just made a little rusty picture,” Dandy says, “to add to the pumpkins and hay bales by painting on the shovel head. I patterned them after how people use them for jack-o-lantern faces.”
Tricolor Mums, a great trick! Plant three in a tub as soon as you see them in the nursery and each year pinch the new buds consistently until July 4th. Then let them bud and bloom!
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Do Dandi’s chickens like their decorated den? I think so!
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