Sun Catchers add brightness to your patioWritten by Johann Erickson
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Seasonal sun catchers are also fun and easy to decorate with. Choose a sun catcher for each holiday, or change your sun catcher with every season. It's a quick way to bring a bit of holiday decor to a room without a lot of work or dragging boxes of holiday decorations out of storage.
Sun catchers aren't limited to windows. You can find sun catchers for your garden, indoor plants, and even for rear view mirror of your car. Use sun catchers as garden stakes, or to add color to your flower garden in off-season.
While glass sun catchers are most popular, don't forget about crystal sun catchers that reflects prisms of light, and translucent stones such as thinly sliced agate that make gorgeous natural sun catchers. There are sun catchers with pressed flowers, beads, gemstones, and even character themes for a child's room.
Let your imagination run wild, you can find a sun catcher to reflect any decorating idea.
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| | Spruce up your garden with BirdhousesWritten by Johann Erickson
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In addition to bird knowledge, you can attract most birds with a birdbath, carefully selected foliage, and plants that bear fruit. However, keep these a distance from birdhouse so that birds occupying it will not have to compete to keep it. If you don't want to mount a pole in your garden area, you can attach your birdhouse to a tree limb, tree trunk, or fence post.
Additional tips are as follows:
- Situate birdhouse entrance in such a way as to avoid overheating it.
- Place birdhouse out of way of predators like cats and coyotes.
- Allow for a clear flight pattern to entrance hole.
- Place appropriate nesting material near your birdhouse to make it easy for birds to settle in.
- Keep bird food fresh.
Birdhouses provide shelter for birds and also entertaining decor for you and your guests. The birds' presence provides dramatic beauty as scenery changes each time you glance into your garden.
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