I just love this! Great Job! We have an old barn that needs taken down, what a great picture! Can you steer me to some other ideas you may have previously posted using the old barn wood? I wanted to use it to clad my gardening shed. this is tooo coool....I might be able to do both huh!

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Well done Jeanne, very cute idea and artistically put together.
kathy

A really nice arrangement--
great job!

That is super fantastic. Love it.
And lucky you getting old barn wood. Nothing like that in the desert here, darn it all.
You create the most unique things!

hugs, Karen

Love it! What are petals made out of? Beautiful butterfly! Great buy on both! Jan

Beautiful flower. And the ladle!!!! What a wonderful idea.

I'd just like to know where all of the "falling down" barns are in VA??? I never come across that type of wood around here! Another fantastic creation Jeanne....love the ladle as the sunflower and the butterfly is the crowning touch!

I love it...

I was going to ask about the petals too. Those colors are so pretty together !

Oh I do love that!!!!
DH and I stopped at a trailer sale.They are making owners move out,for another subdivision Im sure. I got lots of goodies and found a plank just like yours The guy gave it to me!

That is very pretty - I love it. That could go inside or outside - it would look great wherever it's put. Colleen

Wonderful!! I love it!

Jeanne,

Always impressed by your talents! That is a gorgeous piece. Great imagination with the ladel. I grew some of those red sunflowers this summer and you captured them perfectly in your art. However you forgot to add the worm that eats the middle out of it. LOL

Hee, Hee, susieroses...I forgot about the worm! I also planted seeds of Girasol Sunflower (Double Dandy Hybrid) which I hope will bloom these colors (as on the package).

Thanks, everyone...this was a fun GJ project...acrylic paints & then sprayed poly over painted board before attaching the ladle & butterfly. I would luv to find more of those butterflies but I think it's a "rare species!"

shabbybeach...my albums are quite a mess cause I sure didn't know what I was doing when I created an album on Photobucket...now I'm trying to do better but when you move your pics, you lose them on the threads you've posted them to...so I'm slowly copying or moving some. Try this link for some barnwood ideas. But you'll find more if you jump around in the albums & back to the main one, "Jeannespines"

Recycle! Recycle! recycle! Old barnwood is awesome...I wish you all had it available! But I hate seeing so many barns "dying!" Jeanne S.

Here is a link that might be useful: Jeannespines Barnwood Blooms

Lovely!!! I'm Still inspired by those trellises you and hubby made too!!! I have been keeping an eye out for some faucet handles too! Now this, with the ladle...YOWZA!!!

What creativity. I love it!!

I love the use of the ladle for the sunflower. Very clever of you. I have 3 of those butterflies, large, medium, small. Would you like to have them? I had them on my wall with the large one first, then the medium, then the small, like the butterfly was flying off into the distance. I took them down & not sure now where they are. If you want them, I'll look 'em up & send them your way. Just e-mail me.
Vickie

jeannespines great job. I've got 2 of those butterflies. I find them at estate and garage sales.

Very creative Jeanne! Lovely recycling project.

Do you sell these? You sure could.

I was trying to picture this piece at work without seeing the picture of it and just couldn't do it! lol! What a wonderful use for the old ladle. I bought a butterfly very similiar to that one at a TS. Some day when I get my computer up and working, I will post pictures of some of the things I found while shopping for the Garden Junk Jamboree. he-he Great work, Jeanne S!

akup ... thanks for the offer ... but I'll keep an eye out at TS & GS's...postage makes it cost more than I want to invest...this butterfly had a "bracket" where I could put in 2 tiny screws into the wood...it was quite different & very heavy! I used to have some light-wt. metal ones yrs. ago...like the "gold leaves" from yrs. ago...I think bought at one of those home parties or something!

Yes, this one is going to Farmers Market on Sat....if it doesn't sell, I can give it a good home!

golden...good find for you! Go for it...some wonderful project will come to you with your free wood pc.

Thanks, everyone, for the comments! Jeanne S.

What an awesome and creative idea! That ladle made a perfect sunflower center, and the metal butterfly really sets it off perfect.

You are so right about the old barns, so sad that we are losing so many of them! Glad you are finding uses for some of the old wood.

Can't wait to see what else you come up with. Great job!

Luvs

How crafty you are to think of using the ladle that way. It looks great on that barnwood! You painted the petals? They look very 3D to me, great job, Jeanne!

I hate to see the old barns going too. At one time in my area, you couldn't go 5 miles without passing a See Rock City barn. Now almost all are gone. The man who painted most of them died just a couple of years ago. It was interesting hearing him talk about his barn painting career when the local news interviewed him.

TFS the beautiful pics! ~tenderlee (Here's a link to someone's blog with many great pics of different painted barns in our area.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Old painted barn pics

Silly me! I thought the petals were a decorative glass plate you'd painted red...looking again, I realize they are painted right onto the wood. Very pretty! Love your use of the ladle! I looked at your other pics and fell in love! Very nice work!