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My First Summer Craft!


See the teacup bird feeder.

See how cute it is.

I made it. 

That's right. I made it. It's one of the three crafty things I said I'd  make this summer. Yay!

In fact, dear readers, I made three of them. Yes, three! Big time.

One for me. And two for Kathy, my friend since elementary school. I warned her that for her birthday, I was presenting her with a white elephant. He-he.


Making the feeders was easy. Not like I thought it would be when I tried to visualize doing the instructions. Lesson to me, once again: Don't let unfamiliar instructions overwhelm me. Just do it.

Click here for are the instructions by Little Birdie Secrets. I modified the instructions with each teacup to fit the directions for the glue I used as well as what made more sense to me. The results were fine. They passed the once-over from Kathy's husband who is an engineer. And let me tell you he gave it quite a pondering over I was starting to get nervous. Pshew.

The smartest thing I did during the construction process was to wear purple gloves. Otherwise that bit of purple glove that got stuck to the bottom of a saucer would've been my skin.  Again, pshew.

Will I make more? You can count on it. The next one will be a larger plate so that more than one bird can feast at a time. I also want to find other materials for the base.  Crafty Gardener has some interesting ideas at her blog.  Take a look at this page, if you're interested.

The seemingly floating  teacup feeders.

P.S. This is much later. I thought I'd check out some linky parties and joined in at Sugar Bee and All Thingz Related. Check 'em out, yourself. Lots of good handcrafting going on.

P.P.S. Today, Thursday, I joined the link party at Somewhat Special. These link parties are fun. Try 'em sometime, if you haven't.





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Comments

  1. You did great and I love them!
    Thanks so much for sharing @ Anything Related!

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  2. I LOVE the teacup bird feeder!! Such a cute idea :]

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  3. Those are adorable! Great job!

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  4. Thank you, All Thingz Related, Mandy, and Carrie. It was fun making them. :-)

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  5. I have made one of these myself...yours is adorable, and the birds like them too.

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  6. Thanks for stopping by, Debbie. The sparrows have finally found the cup. Need to make sure, since only one sparrow gets to feast at at time. :-)


    To all you other sweet gals who stopped by before today: I switched over to a domain URL and in so doing the comments before today went missing. Bummer! Supposedly, your comments will come back. I surely hope so!

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  7. really cute, I have made a few bird feeders but never thought about this one. great job.. Debb

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  8. Thanks, Debb. I'm trying to find a glue that will keep them together longer than a few months. Otherwise, I'd go crazy making them.

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