Wheelbarrow Planter Turned Display Easel

Just the incentive I needed to get started...After dreaming about starting a blog for a few years and getting sidetracked with Pinterest, I've finally found the incentive I needed to procrastinate no longer!
The Creating with the Stars blogger contest (via East Coast Creative). Only Bloggers need apply. Time to stop dreaming and start doing!

So here goes with a project I finished last fall. It started out as a worn wooden wheelbarow planter that was given to us by a friend.

My munchkin could often be found using it as a bunny cart among other things.



Needless to say, it had seen better days and in his hands it was soon in several pieces. I loved the patina of the old wood and was not ready to toss it out. It was in too many broken pieces to fix, but I wanted to give it a new life. When I looked at the pieces that were left, I was inspired to add large pieces of bark to the edges of the bottom of the wheelbarrow that managed to stay in one piece, and turn it into a mini display easel.

Here it is with a grouping of autumn accessories I was working on at the time.



And here it is with a more recent project displayed on it...



A monogram that I cutfrom the page of an old encyclopediaandglued onto a small canvas that I had previously disassembled, painted over and distressed. I love the wheel peeking out on the top. What do you think?

Stay tuned for an upcoming project out of the remaining pieces of this wheelbarrow...

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