Saturday, October 29, 2011

Quick yard decor project


We live in the country, in North Dakota. Think strong wind and snow will fall soon....  Which means no fragile yard decorations...  Ane we live a long a fairly busy road with traffic passing by at 60 miles on hour so if I wanna impress the neighbors, small won't catch their attention.



I decided I wanted to add a little halloween to my fall display.   So as I thought about what I had available, I came up with this idea for an owl...



I used packing tape  (should hold when it freezes overnight)  and took the corner of a black garbage bag and taped one corner over the middle of the top of the bag.  Then I pulled two corners around front and down a ways to make wings.   I cut circles from the ends of a bag of bird feed for the eyes.  I also taped a bit around the corners of the white bag so the ear tufts stayed a bit more pronounced,  And although it does not show up well, I used duck tape to make some wavy designs on the front for chest feathers.  Quick, easy and kinda cute!  The ghosts are a white garbage bag cut in half with some fiberfill stuffed and tied in the corner.  I tied bolts to the bottom to try and keep them from totally blowing away but the wind is pretty strong today.



I'd love to know if you make yourself a yard owl and see the picture!








 
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2 comments:

  1. Your yard decorations look great and I LOVE your owl! How cute is that!! what a fun creative idea. I am going to feature this on this week's TTF party! I hope you will join again and grab the "I was featured" button! Thank you for sharing it with us at TTF and have a happy November 1st!

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  2. You are so creative! I never would have thought of that adorable owl! The whole scape looks perfect. Thanks for linking it up to Latest and Greatest Friday!

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