Great things!
Lots of women love to go shopping for clothing and I’m not saying that I don’t like to get new clothes (although the people who see me day after day, year after year in the same wardrobe might argue with this) but I absolutely LOVE hardware stores! I can wander around Home Depot for hours and not just because I’m waiting for the guys from “Yard Crashers” to show up…… I tell my dear husband, Steve repeatedly that if he ever sees any of those guys, he had better bring them home! But what I really like to do is browse the hardware stores looking at tools and things that I can use for something other than their intended purpose. Here are some examples of my favorite finds:
wood scrap = texture.
yellow “things” = metal clay shapes and texture tool.
nail sets = metal clay granulation tools.
white toilet screw covers = things to dome metal clay.
electrical wire caps = flower press tools for metal clay (you have to file off the words first.)
silver bracket = jewelry sized t-square and straight edge.
I hope these inspire you to take a look around the next time you are in the hardware store and if you see those Yard Crasher guys from HGTV http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv154/videos/index.html PLEASE, please, please send them to my house!
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Love it Marnie and I soooo agree! I’ve started asking for gift cards to hardware stores for birthdays & anniversaries! I love power tools too…have you tried Harbor Freight? It really rocks! They even have a catalog and an on-line shopping link…look for coupons in the Sunday paper! See you in the “odds and ends” aisle! P. S. I’m always nonchalantly looking for those Yard Crasher guys too–the only thing is I’m kinda scared to have them follow me home and discover dishes in the sink and laundry in the basket…but hey, at least I’m not on the Hoarders show yet!
I love Harbor Freight too! And as for the dishes in the sink and laundry piled up, that is the best part about yard crashers…. they stay in the YARD and we don’t let them in the house on the first day, by the time they show up to work the next morning the dishes are done and we have stashed the laundry out of sight!!