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Installing Wooden Lawn Edging
by Katrina Josey
You need string, wooden stakes, a 2-by-4 piece of lumber, hammer, sledgehammer, hand saw, garden spade, wheel barrow, level, 2-inch galvanized nails, wood sealer and the wooden edging itself. The most important thing to do when preparing materials is to buy edging that has been treated for contact with the ground. This will prevent the wood from rotting in a year or two.
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How to Make Metal Yard Art
by Jane Smith
Metal yard art comes in so many varieties that it is hard to pick just one type. Found-object yard art takes the least amount of skill to make, but requires a great amount of whimsical, childlike imagination. You have probably seen characteristic figures such as gnomes, birds and other animals welded together from rakes and garden spades, or a turtle made from a shovel with a funnel for the head and gardening hand forks for feet. According to 20-year veteran metal artist and blacksmith Gypsy Wilburn, "There's no limit to what can be made from worn out tools and such. I never found an object that wouldn't turn into something or become a part of something, no matter how creative I had to get."
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