One of these 4.3″ clay flower pots will hold about 1½ cups of birdseed. Now things are ready to add the birdseed mixture! This will end up being the hanger for your bird bell. Next, I cut a piece of yarn to about 24″ long, folded it in half, and then pushed the folded end through the hole in the bottom so that about a 4″ loop of the yarn was now sticking out. I then took a pencil and poked through the wax paper and out the hole in the bottom of the pot. Some folds in the paper are perfectly OK and won’t show up on your finished bird bell. To get everything ready for the birdseed mixture, I first lined my pot with some wax paper. One handy thing about using a flower pot as your mold is the hole that’s already in the bottom, which will come in handy later in the process when you are inserting your string for hanging your bird bell. Some quick measuring on my part showed my pot to be 4″ high and 4½” across the top. To make a homemade birdseed bell I used a clay flower pot that was labeled as a 4.3″ size. And although I used a clay flowerpot, you could probably use some other type of disposable container for this method too, such as a plastic yogurt container, or maybe one of those red Solo cups. Of course the first challenge when you want to make a homemade birdseed bell is how can you get that shape? I decided I could put my recipe mixture into a small flowerpot to get something of the same sort of shape and was pretty satisfied with my final result, although I wish the bottom was just a bit wider like the store-bought type. This year I got out my recipe for homemade birdseed ornaments again too but then decided to do something a little different with that recipe – – I decided I could turn this mixture into homemade birdseed bells! Most of the time I make my DIY suet cakes which are fun to make in different flavors and that I put in my little suet cake cage out on the tree. return postage is the buyers responsibility.This is the time of year when I love to make some homemade creations for the birds to enjoy. We very much want all of our customers to be happy with what they receive, so we do accept returns - please contact us within three days of the item arriving with you, we must have the item returned to us in the same condition that it left us in. Please note: All our items are sent with tracked mail. At this time, we do not offer international shipping - if you'd like a similar item please check out or contact our UK based sister store, Greenwomancrafts: We offer generous postal discounts for multiple items purchased in one transaction - etsy should apply this discount at checkout. This piece will be posted with First Class Mail within the US, if you need a different option, please select that at checkout. Hares are sacred to the Goddess Andraste (among others) and their images are found in art across the world and through the centuries.Īkin to our better known rabbits (though larger and more elegant), they are much beloved, and associated with shape-shifting and transformation. It was once believed that witches could turn themselves into hares under the light of the full moon. The hare, in British mythology, is a creature of mystery and magic. If you hold the bell in your hand or your fingers you will not hear the chime. if you are hoping for a loud chime you are going to be disappointed. The bell has a quiet tinkle-chime - not loud enough to be obnoxious since the bells are small! The bells feature a hare or perhaps a rabbit on one side and a little bird on the other - both symbols of spring. We've hung these on a generous length of waxed cotton cord along with a bead (your bead will be chosen from our stash at random and thus might not match the one pictured. WARNING: These are SMALL bells and DO NOT have a loud chime. We found these cute little bells and couldn't resist! We turned them into Keychains and more recently pendants!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |