~ Y ~ E ~ E ~ E ~ E ~~~ H ~ A ~ W ! ! ! ! ! !
little doggies !!!!!
Ms LLF: aka Kathy ~~~ I Adore this Boot Birdhouse!
now.... that's what I call a
R E A L ~ ~ ~ T E X A S ~ ~ ~ Bunkhouse !!!!!!!!!!!

Love it... Thank you so much for sharing the IDEA !!!

I have a pair of patchwork boots I use to use
for Square Dancing ... they cost some $$$ and
I wore a hole right in the sole.... but the upper
part is still real nice fine leather... and
quite decorative... I had the hole in the sole
patched...
but still a little bumpy for Square Dancing...
gotta be able to rrreeeeeaaaallllly slide !!!!

So this is a good project for me...

& maybe then ......
with much answered prayers....
My DH will take me BACK to My
beloved TEXAS ! ! ! and I can hang my
2 birdhouse up !!!!!!!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YipEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KiOOOOOOO KI AAAAAAAAA !!!!!

God Bless !
SusieSunshine

PS.... I know both you and I are FREEZING...
and Ms 2muchglass & Jeannespines and Country Girl ...
and Ms use2Bcapecodder.....
and LOTS of our Garden Junker Friends.....
SOOOOOOOOOOOOtry to stay warm....

we had - 37 degrees............MINUS -37 ! ! !
Are you kidd'n me ! ? ! ? ? ? ?
Dear Lord ! ! ! Texans just don't have enough feathers for that kinda COLD FRIGID AIR !!!!!!
BURRRRBaby IT'S
COLD OUTSIDE ! ! ! & Inside tooooo!!!!!

You aren't the only one who still subscribes to Birds and Blooms. I absolutely love that magazine. I was thrilled to see those instructions too. I told my daughter that I wanted to make one from the boots that have just been hanging around the house....she called me a dork. The funny thing is she is as much of a junker as I am. I am sure that once it is made she will be right with me when I hang it in the yard.

Waaaahhh sniffle sniffle I miss my Bird and Bloom! It came to a choice feed the birds or read the magizine. Hungry birds won! At least I can still make houses out of junque for next to nothing. Thanks for the link.

CT

I love that magazine too....even though I don't subscribe. Maybe I'll have to do that now that Country Home is going under!

I don't have a subscription to Birds and Blooms, but I do order the older issues in bulk on ebay..LOL....I only cut photos out if I have spare copies.
I don't have any cowboy boots (yet) but I wonder if I could use ladies ankle high boots too...I have many many things to use for potential birdhouses.

Thank your for that link! Now I gotta go out to my van and dig out some womens boots I was about to donate to goodwill ;)

Luna,

You're the best!!!!! Thanks for the link.

Marlene - If Country Homes is shuting down why did they do a 2009 House give-away???? I love their website and get a weekly email from them. : (

Barefootin - I used those ankle boots in black to make Santa boots to look like he kicked them off on my front porch by the door. No reindeer poop tracked in on my floors!!!! I put white , bowa feathers around each top, laced them with red satin cording, attached bells and "Voila'", Santa boots. Then I gave them to a sweet neighbor.

Susie

My very sweet hubby faithfully mails my B&B subscription and my Florida Gardening.I also Love Mother Earth news but will probably let her go.
Maybe because he loves the first two and just doesn't GET the Mother Earth bug.
I think every Dr should subscribe to B&B to relax people in the waiting room.
My only problem with it is that I cannot part with a single issue!

Hey,,,,,
Why don't we all take over the Country Home Magazine. We sure have enough pictures and stuff to get started!!!

My in-laws don't understand my gardening bug...but maybe they do as they subscribe to Birds and Blooms every year for me. I love that magazine!!!! ...once I pull out all of the little mailing cards and etc. when it arrives! :o) I get so inspired by the ideas in the magazine. That's where I got the idea to make my log, suet birdfeeder I posted awhile back. Bear Hugs! Kirk

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For all of you who don't subscribe, you can still check out Birds & Blooms' website. They still have plenty of great features, pictures and how-tos there that you can access without a subscription.

I'm glad so many of you liked the cowboy boot birdhouse too. I have seen them for sale for an exorbitant price and wondered how they made them. I was thrilled to find these instructions! I hope y'all post pictures of any that you make!

On another note ... I know that Cottage Living has discontinued their magazine. Broke my heart because I loved that magazine too! The publisher will be sending Southern Living until my subscription is up.

Country Home's last issue will be its March issue too. :^( So it's not just a rumor. You can read the "obituary" at the link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Closing of Country Home Magazine

Wow I will miss both Country Home and Cottage Living....I love both of those...

Golden Pond...I think we need to start some kind of magazine of our own. All of the wonderful ideas that are floating around here would make a terrific magazine.

Kirk...I use the pull out tags to mark the pages that I want to go back to...they make great bookmarks.

Smick,

There is a new JUNK magazine sold at Lowes. Seems like a rough time to start a mag business. It was $10 - $12. and came with a CD so it was enclosed in a plastic bag. I will have to wait until someone puts theirs on Freecycle. LOL (I was given a box of Birds and Blooms and Backyard ______ magazines last year.) No one could know how thrilled I was to have those copies.

Texas is SERIOUS cowboy/girl boot wearin' country. Boots are very expensive. Men will pay hundreds of dollars for their boots. Resale stores do not treat them like they do other shoes. They are expensive! A Yard Sale would be the best place to find them for me.

Susie

Susie you are in So Cal and you are from TX. Me too. I fully understand what you are saying.

I do not get the mag but I sure grab it in every dr or dentist office that has that or any of the old fashioned type content...and they use great glossy paper....

I have a red boot that I made as a lamp. Only found one at a TS. Went every week...lady was watching for me. Then a few months later, I woke up one am and said I gotta go in this am and get my other boot. And yep there it was sitting on the top of one of the racks...and she handed it to me. I made a birdhouse out of it. Right now they are both stored until I go clean out the storage next month. Will be like going to GW every day, lol. I have several pair of boots that I have in my DD Indian room....well, cowboy and indian room, lol. Later last year I found a little red boot, no partner. Paid for it and they were watching for the other one for me....no luck. But I always see single boots laying around at TSs.

Hey don't you gals just use those boots for birdhouses. You can also use them to plant flowers in. Also you can make a little area in your yard and call it BOOT HILL. I have a boot hill and it has a bunch of boots with flowers and everything else in it. You can make a few little crosses and let vines and things grow on them and top em off with an old cowboy hat. Toss in a few different size rocks here and there, a couple of bandanas tied here and there and you have a sure nuff western theme garden. The kids love it and people get the biggest kick out of seeing these type flowerbeds/gardens. You can even hang a set of kids toy cap guns and holster or a old air riffle leaning up against a tree. The ideals are limitless.

Happy Gardening, Marian

I have a couple of pairs of boots for just this project! The problem is my list is soooo long I can't decide what to do first-LOL
Country Home is going to stop and yet just this week I got a letter reminding me that my subscription would soon be up--did I want to re-new! Can you imagine that!!!!!

I love B & B too & take both that & the "Extra"! Country decorating seems to have given way to the European stark look (like nobody lives there)LOL Well, I wear my boots!! Long & black,brown or white!! Keep my legs warm in winter! Guess I'll look in the streets as I'm driving, that's how I got my boot I planted!!Jan

Great idea! Thanks for posting the link. Alas, no B&B in Oz... there are some mags from the States here but those are mostly quilting/scrapbooking/folk art mags. We do get a few gorgeous garden mags from the UK but I can't afford them - I refuse to pay $15-$18 for one mag.

I've bookmarked the site so I can enjoy it, too. Haven't nosed around it thoroughly yet, but so far so good!!

Love the boot birdhouse! Love the log suet feeder! Great thread. ~tenderlee

Luna - thanks for the link...cute boot house!

Also just a note...check your local library (or Friends of the Library group)...I worked in Waterloo library (city) and our FOL group sold donated back issue magazines for $.25...that's how I get my stash & I can rip out the pages! (don't have to take them back) Jeanne S.