Attaching Wings on Dragonfly Made of Old Fan Blades

How to take a leak unique dragonflies for your garden

…using cast off materials, …bed posts, silverware, bottles and wire.

Exposure by Jeanne Sammons- CLICK to enlarge

"The main symbols of the dragonfly are renewal, positive force and the power of life in world-wide. Dragonflies can as wel atomic number 4 a symbolisation of the sense of someone that comes with maturity. Also, as a puppet of the wind, the devil's darning needle frequently represents change. And as a dragonfly lives a low-set lifespan, it knows it must live its life to the fullest with the momentaneous time it has – which is a object lesson for all of us. "

Tina Burrows from Repurposed-Living created a collage of dragonflies meant for the garden with this program line…

Having a dragonfly in your garden must be a beautiful thing, in point of fact, each of these common people have appropriated this creature and ready-made a different creation, each one unique hopefully to symbolize positivity in their gardens.

Hera is our swarm of dragonflies…

Myra Glandon says, "This is my interpretation of a dragonfly. I make dragonfly garden stakes out of old wooden chair legs, spindles, old bobbins etc, add metal wings ready-made from alloy flash, wire, wire strapping, etc., and miscellaneous for eyes, antennae, mouth …. each is unique and hand crafted. I have them scattered all over my garden."

Myra Glandon's colorful dragonfly

"Dragonflies are form of yard art I enjoy making.  I volition represent adding them to the rear of my cropped chairs," Myra tells us. "This is an old oak mandril out of an old kitchen lead, with brown flashing wings (left over from our gutter) and stacked washer with screw eyes. It has a scrapbook grommet for a mouth, and wire antennae. I whittled the shape of the heading, and so whittled the point connected the prat."

Myra: I misused roof flashing and punctured the wing shapes. I have too used decorative hinges, antimonial strapping, wire and anything else I find.

Becky Fosbrink's terrific dragonfly against a perfect red background,.."My new dragonfly was finished today… I shaped the wings with hangers and screen and weaved them with fuzz cable."

How To:

Cindy McRee's dragonfly

Cindy McRee, from Bradenton, FL says, "My son assembled another dragonfly for me to paint! love the "wings" on this one. The body is a mesa leg, the head is a section of another table leg & the wings are cap fan blades. The eyes &adenylic acid; antenna are whatever we find – bolts, wires, etc. You throw to modify the screw plates sometimes to fit onto the body and and then get originative with spray paint!"

Close up item…

We shredded the bracket off one lateral of the blades and IT fit utterly on the table leg. The one along the right is screwed to the posterior with the fan blade's brackets overlapping. We used some screws on circle hooks on the back for mounting."

"Here's some dragonflies on the argue – the one along the right was the number one one we did and we attached the buff blades to the back."

Sara Longale's Devil's darning needle, also made from two winnow blades and a arbo

Jimmye Lynn Dye-Porter's dragonfly made from wire and wits makes a sun catcher

Brenda K. Colwell's nonindulgent and green dragonfly

Jeanne Sammons' sewing needle

Jeanne Sammons, "Ok, for you welders out thither, here's a adpressed-up of the 'silverware dragonfly'  I bought yesterday at prowess sale …dear but …an original and I will smile and remember the good day at Clear Lake spent with friends!"

Jeanne Sammons saved these Barbed wire dragonflies on a garden walk

 Bees and Butterflies, too!

Linda Gladman's butterfly

Linda Gladman says, "This is a simple bench my father-in-law made me last year and I just love it (my brother ready-made Pine Tree State the butterfly) … I'm thinking about painting the bench this year but not fated of a colouring material …"

Jimmye's bee

Jimmye Lynn Dye-Doorman made a little bee from a bottle. She says, "The body of this is a Erysimum cheiri bottle from Bath & Body Works.  I painted the interior yellow, then striped the outside with the black, made the wings from copper telegram and used a gnomish flat gemstone for the face. I added a 'blingy eyes' to give the bee scotopic vision.

The only problem was when I involved the stone, I did not leave a 'cry pickle' so when the temporary got really hot, really immature in the year, the yellow paint 'seized'… cracking, if anyone makes one, or if I make another, I will tuck a micro tube between the stone and the mouth of the feeding bottle."

Inspiration!

Photo aside Debra Newton

Here is Debra Newton's  brilliant photo of a real dragonfly to inspire you.  I hope you try finding the pieces requisite to build your own good fortune charm. ~~ Litigate

Note:

To see another instructor on making dragonflies run into Tina Burrows Repurposed-Life web log post: The Devising of a Dragonfly

Attaching Wings on Dragonfly Made of Old Fan Blades

Source: https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/04/11/making-dreamy-dragonflies-for-the-garden/