What do you do when the birds are eating all of your preciously home-grown strawberries? I thought... "why not try making a scarecrow?", even if it doesn't work it's a great creative activity to do with (or without) kids. We used our daughter's torn up jeans and tshirt and started stuffing them with our over-grown dried up cilantro and red lettuce plants. Inspired by MOMA's Tim Burton exhibit (mind-blowing exhibit that is a must if you are going to NYC), I stitched on a tomato vine mouth, corn husk nose and super hot chili peppers eyes, just in case the birds start to get friendly with Chamomile (this is the name our daughter came up with for the scarecrow), they will be burned alive by the spicy chili pepper seeds. So did this work? We are now eating full grown super sweet strawberries!
My goal is to create a waste-free environment by gardening, composting, & making products from organic and upcycled materials. All of my products are sewn with my most cherished heirloom, my grandmother's 1958 Singer. My prints are hand-painted from the plants in our garden. Iris is our desert tortoise we adopted from the Living Desert Reserve who lives under the mesquite tree in our garden.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
strawberries and scarecrows
What do you do when the birds are eating all of your preciously home-grown strawberries? I thought... "why not try making a scarecrow?", even if it doesn't work it's a great creative activity to do with (or without) kids. We used our daughter's torn up jeans and tshirt and started stuffing them with our over-grown dried up cilantro and red lettuce plants. Inspired by MOMA's Tim Burton exhibit (mind-blowing exhibit that is a must if you are going to NYC), I stitched on a tomato vine mouth, corn husk nose and super hot chili peppers eyes, just in case the birds start to get friendly with Chamomile (this is the name our daughter came up with for the scarecrow), they will be burned alive by the spicy chili pepper seeds. So did this work? We are now eating full grown super sweet strawberries!
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