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| Peanut |
Posted - Nov 06 2007 : 09:43:52 AM
I made these "curtains" for my kitchen from aluminum flashing. I love how the light streams through them in the morning - unfortunately it was rainy this morning when I took the picture! 
I printed a pattern from the internet and enlarged it to fit the metal. Then I punched out the pattern with a nail and hammer.
I get comliments on them all the time and the best part is that they were FREE - we already had the metal in the barn.
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Tealady |
Posted - Dec 05 2008 : 5:14:17 PM
Peanut - What a great Idea! Beautiful work!!!
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| Laura Marie |
Posted - Dec 01 2008 : 8:15:43 PM
What a clever idea. It is so cute and gives a home that country vintage feel. And how resourceful to be able to use something you had laying around your barn already!
Good Job!
Laura Marie #369
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| Sue Feely |
Posted - Dec 01 2008 : 7:51:20 PM
Dear Jennifer -
How so very clever. Love them. Great job.
Sue Feely |
| Beverley |
Posted - Dec 01 2008 : 5:04:38 PM
What an absolutely cute idea!!!!
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 6:12:34 PM
great job..i love them!
Linda in Scranton, PA
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 5:46:03 PM
These are wonderful!! I've always wanted to make a pie safe. I asked the tinsmith at Old Sturbridge Village in MA on one of my visits how to do it and he showed me. Well I've never had the opportunity to make a pie safe yet (or a place to put one) but this looks like something I could even do! Thanks so much for the inspiration. I too would love to see more of what you've done.
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 2:03:07 PM
They are fabu!
Teresa Sue
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| ranchmama |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 6:28:32 PM
What a neat idea!! You did a wonderful job and they are so beautiful.
I too noticed the view from the window ;) very nice
Elise |
| iloveprims |
Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 09:34:33 AM
OMG they are beautiful! You did an awesome job. :-)
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| Jami |
Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 07:31:17 AM
Ooohh and aaahhh Peanut. Very nice. I can't see how they are attached. Did you bend the top at a 45-degree angle and then screw or nail to the upper window casing or use a board behind it or what? Just curious. Might like to try this in one room and see if I can do it. Thanks for sharing.
Jami in WA
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| emtfarmer |
Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 7:23:01 PM
How creative! I love the idea! I can see why you don't want a "traditional" curtin. Am I the only one that noticed the wonderful view through the window?? Beautiful!
Darlene |
| Ga Girl |
Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 5:01:26 PM
How cute love this idea!Karen
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| lacisne88 |
Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 2:22:39 PM
These are really amazing. You are very artistic and creative! Beautiful!
Chelsey |
| electricdunce |
Posted - Jun 17 2008 : 2:07:37 PM
They look terrific, what a great idea, there is just something so sweet about punched tin, I would never have thought of a window valance. You deserve a gold star....
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
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| City_Chick |
Posted - Jun 17 2008 : 12:42:46 PM
Thanks for sharing. I have two kitchen windows that I think would look great with that charming valance! |
| farmgirlkate |
Posted - May 31 2008 : 7:23:37 PM
Wow! Those are just way too cool-you did a great job!
kate
"You only have what you give..."" |
| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - Jan 21 2008 : 6:32:42 PM
So cool! I love, love, love them!!!!
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| Photobugs |
Posted - Nov 30 2007 : 4:50:03 PM
So Cute...I miss tin piercing...it is a great way to get out your frustrations...all that hammering and you make something beautiful, not hurting anyone! I made and sold many things doing this years ago...wish I had saved some of them, but don't think I have many of them left.
Pieces of tin cut out in 'farmy' shapes make great primitive ornaments! This is such an easy craft that anyone can do. I used to teach classes on this, but it is really not necessary to take a class, it is a craft any skill level can do.
Love it made into the valance...great idea Peanut! Got any more pictures of your house to share with us? I love to see how others decorate.
Pamela
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| Duchess |
Posted - Nov 30 2007 : 12:13:02 PM
How very cool, you did a super job!! I also like it is a way to recycle, good idea all the way around. I can think of lots of ways to use this idea. Thank You so much for sharing with us.
Barbara
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| smoothiejuice |
Posted - Nov 11 2007 : 09:33:47 AM
those are great i havent done any punched tin work in years...I will have to do some again. good job! |
| Carol Sue |
Posted - Nov 10 2007 : 11:21:45 PM
0h my g00ness are th0se beautiful. I l0ve the pattern, I w0uld have never th0ught 0f it. I l0ve being 0n here and being inspired!!!!! Thanks!
Car0l Sue
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| aimeeravae |
Posted - Nov 09 2007 : 09:12:41 AM
These are fabulous! You gotta love farmgirl creativity.
Aimee
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| Peanut |
Posted - Nov 08 2007 : 05:57:39 AM
quote:
Originally posted by lasagefemme
Jennifer....do you remember where you got that pattern??? Its just so beautiful..........
I just googled "punched tin patterns". I'm sorry I don't remember the name of the pattern!
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 11:00:00 PM
I LOVE this idea TOO!! Very farmgirlish for sure.
And I love the single tree idea too. I want to see if my Uncle still has any of my grandpa's old tack and maybe I can do that too. I have two tall skinny windows in my living room that I would love that look on!! Gosh you have great ideas!!! Love the utensil holder one too!! I can tell you are going to be inspiration for alot of us!! Keep coming with the ideas..we love them!!
Jenny in Utah
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| lasagefemme |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 10:27:21 PM
Jennifer....do you remember where you got that pattern??? Its just so beautiful..........
"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail." Thoreau
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