Natalie Haycock

Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog! I hope I haven’t put y’all through too much boredom these last couple weeks. Let me tell you, I’m excited to be done with that chair! This week I upcycled an old window. I’ve had these at my house since I moved in about 10 years ago and I was scrolling through Pinterest and on safari and found that I could upcycle those! The idea that I had was to make a planter at the bottom like this photo below. This project actually was not on my action plan, but I figured that I needed more practice at cutting angles than welding, so I switched to this window. First, I sanded the window and then taped the inside.  After I taped it, I painted the wood white. Although I like the “rustic look” I thought that the white would look better. This is what it looked like after I painted it: I was going to paint flowers on the window, but I decided that would be too much to look at because there will be flowers on the bed already. I felt that it would just be too “busy”...

Hey guys welcome back! These last couple weeks have been a bit stressful, but hopefully things will start to slow down so I find more time to do my genius hours. This week I was suppose upcycle a wire spool into a planter. This is the project I am most excited for, but I cannot find a good spool that is intact enough. So I will keep looking because I really want to do it! But instead of that, this week I decided I should attempt again at the chair. I used some of the wood from my house that I used when building our fence. This wood was so much easier to work with than the wood that I had last week. Though this looks like a simple project, it was difficult for me. I am still learning how to cut angles. The base of the chair that I used was more of a trapezoid than a square, so I had to cut angles in the wood to make sure it lined up perfectly. This was very difficult, but with the help from Mr. Rehbein I was able to get the right angles. I did not like the look of the chair afterwards, ...

Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog! So my projects have been all wacked up. I have such a hard time finding the objects I need to upcycle ♻️, so I decided to skip to something that I do have. I decided to upcycle an old chair that I had around my house. I thought this project was going to be super easy because all I had to do was make a barrier on the seat of the chair, but I was wrong. I had a hard time with the wood that I was using because it was dry, so it would keep cracking when I was screwing the screw in. This created an obstacle for me. I predrilled a hole in a diagonal in hopes that when I screwed the screw in, the wood would not crack. Well, it was the thought that counted right. Every single piece of wood that I tried to use cracked. This had me very frustrated because I didn’t know what I was doing wrong to allow this to happen. I could’ve have just let it crack and then make a mixture of wood glue and sawdust to fill in the cracks, but I would not have satisfied with how i...

Hey welcome back guys! So this week I made new use to an old tire. I tried to get the smaller tire I could find but it still was a good size tire. I made a stand for the tire that the plant pot would sit on.  Right here, I measured how large I wanted my base to be and used two different 2x6s to make a circle. I used a jigsaw to cut these semi circles.  Here, I glued the two pieces together and put one screw on each side angled so the two pieces would stay together.  Next, for the legs, I had to cut 3 4x4s at a 15 degree angle on each side. Then I had to glue the 4x4s onto the base that I made. Before I did that I drilled a hole with a drill bit so it would be easy to drill a screw into the 4x4s. After I glued I drilled the screw in and made something that looks like a stool, but it’s really a tire stand which is below! This is the final product(below). Overall, I’m pretty proud with how I did. I had help from Mr. Rehbein and used to tools from the Ag shop. This, by far, h...