Americana Crafts from Scraps

I cleaned up outside the other day and took apart an old lattice that was already falling apart.




It was tedious work, but with a hammer, screw driver and pliers I took out the staples and small nails.




I ended up with a lot of pieces. . . .



and I made this star to hang on the outside wall of our storage building. I nailed the pieces together with small nails with our staple gun. I'm thinking this would be pretty at Christmas time, also. I could string lights around it.



I still had left over boards, so I made a very crude flag. I think I will also hang this on the outside wall of our building. It will be up high so people won't notice the imperfections. I cut the boards to the length I wanted, spray painted them and then nailed the boards together with the staple gun. The small nails were a little too long, tho, and some of them came through the other side.



Here is how I attached the boards on the back of the flag.


I've seen these stars and flags on the outside of buildings a lot and always wanted one like them. I'm glad I came up with the idea before throwing away the tore up lattice in the burn pile.