Creating my way to Success: Garden Snowman from broken fence pailing

Challenge 5 for the 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges is to find something in your garden shed or outhouse and make it into a Christmas Decoration.

I found an old broken fence pailing and decided to use that!

This was a super simple project.

I had a can of white spray paint - which is actually appliance paint - for touching up paint on fridges and washing machines etc, but I tried it on the wood and it worked ok!

Two coats of spray paint later... and my broken pailing was white enough.

I found some scraps of fleece in my fabric stash and cut them roughly to size.

Tied those around the pailing for a hat and scarf.

Then raided my girls paint box for some paints and brushes...

And added eyes, nose, mouth and buttons.

And that was that! A cute snowman for our garden to guard the pineapples!

Or maybe he'd prefer to be by the pool!

I hope he doesn't melt.... we do live in the tropics. I should probably put him in the shade!

To see the video setting this challenge and any other ideas and projects that others have linked up in answer to this challenge, visit this post.

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