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Make Your Own Fishing Decor From Fishing Gear
By Elly Kendall, Fri Dec 9th
Decorating with old, used fishing gear is fun, creative andinexpensive. It's pretty easy to find unique fishing gear to useas decorating items for your log cabin or home. Here are a fewfun ideas for your fishing decor projects. First you will need fishing gear. My husband is not thefisherman in our family, I am. So it's easy for me to save oldfishing lures that the hooks have dulled and gives me a greatexcuse to buy more too! Bobbers have a tendency to stop floatingafter a few whacks on the rocks along the shoreline, renderingthem useless to the fisherman but a great find for thedecorator. If you confiscate gear from hubby's tackle boxremember you now know what to get him for the next holiday orspecial occasion! Yard sales and estate sales are great for purchasinginexpensive, used fishing equipment for your decoratingprojects. Yard sales are less risky than hubby's tackle box too.Keep an eye out for used fishing nets, poles, lures, bobbers,metal stringers and other gear.
The last thing you want is your fishing decor to smell fishy. Besure to clean everything very carefully and thoroughly. I usealcohol for lures, bobbers and such. Good detergent and bleachfor nets. Vinegar and lemon juice work well too. What type of decorating can you do with your accumulatedtreasures? This is where the fun really begins, let yourimagination shine. Here are just a few ideas to get you started.Minnow buckets make good catch all containers for bedrooms,kid’s rooms and bathrooms for items like crayons, hair do-dads,brushes and combs etc. If you are really crafty they can beturned into lamps. Buy lamp fixtures at the hardware store orinexpensive narrow based lamps that fit into the top opening ofthe minnow bucket. Make your own fishing swag from long pliable twigs, boat line orsaining nets. Make sure you either remove the hooks from luresand replace with twisted wire shaped like hooks or snip thepoints off with heavy wire cutters. I have put chunks of cork onthe ends of each point, these look like baited hooks! From thetwigs I randomly tie bobbers and lures
with mono filament(fishing line). I like to use cafe curtains with curtain clipson these swags because they hang below the bobbers and lures.Curtains with the long tabs work great as well. Old fishing poles from yard sales are very cheap and make greatcurtain rods. I especially like the cane poles because they areeasy to cut to size. Another idea is to hot glue bobbers and lures all over an oldlamp base. I think the more the better on this project, totallycovering the base. Of course the lamp size and your taste make adifference. If it's a very large lamp or you just don't haveenough lures and bobbers you can hot glue solid bands, about 2inches wide, of hemp rope or twine to fill in larger areas. A mobile like you see in babies rooms are fun and add aninteresting art form to your fishing decor. I prefer to hang thefishing gear at different levels instead of all one length.Again I use twigs or sticks for this project's "cross" to hangthe lures, bobbers etc. from and fishing line to tie it alltogether. Old wooden picture frames with the glass removed makeinexpensive picture boxes. Line a piece of thin cardboard withbrown, tan or dark green felt. You can also use fishing printfabric. Put this covered cardboard in the frame like you would apicture and hot glue your treasures on the felt. A good trick isto use sets of three. Three lures, one under the other in acorner, three bobbers side by side for a top row, three handreels in a row at the bottom for weight and one old metalstringer above the reels. Things I haven't tried yet but are on my list to create includefishing lures with the hooks removed as cabinet handles, bobbersor lures for light pulls, fishing net swag around the bathroommirror and drift wood with fishing gear as a conversation piece. Creating your own fishing decor is fun, inexpensive and most ofall you have unique decorating items for your home or cabin.Start collecting old fishing gear and let your imagination go. About the author:Elly writes for LogCabin Fever Gifts & Decor We have more CabinDecorating and Gift articles and products.
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