I recently saw a garden stake that I absolutely loved! It was a=made from old pottery, glass vases, berry dishes and such..each garden stake this lady was selling for around 20-30 dollars, depending on the cost she had invested into the project..the ones using colored vases were the prettiest as they reflected the sun through the glass the best. what is nice about these is that they slide onto a metal pipe for winter storage in a safe place. I made a crude drawing of one that was put together using clear vase( walmart type) on the pipe, a pressed glass plate, a wider colored vase with a bclear glass berry dish over that ( upside down) and then a glass door knob. she used a pottery water resistant type of glue to them that adheres outside well. I want to make one of these..any suggestions for the glue???
From the bottom up...you will need a 4 ft pipe, either steel or copper
Next comes a plate..use clear glass, colored or white pottery or china plate glued to the bottom of the upside down bud vase. the bud vase is one I have seen at walmarts.it is a clear glass and the opening slides over the pipe
examples of plates used.
She had a porcelon angel sitting on the grandmas fan as a topper instead of
the glass door knob over the berry dish
Then came the colore glass vase..some were clear glass and others were pottery. these were upside down and glued onto the plates.
Berry dishes were also used, and turned upside down onto the colored or plain vases.
Incidently , she also made cake plates by turning the above stemmed berry dishes upside down and
gluing glass plates to them
then came either an angel, glass know or glass bead or some unusualy topper...for the year ornament. I gave you the ideas, but you would need to see what you had on hand to creat one of these...they are very pretty!
here is the diagram i drew out to show the construction part.
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