| Decorating with old, used fishing gear is | | | | and lures with mono filament (fishing line). |
| fun, creative and inexpensive. It's pretty | | | | I like to use cafe curtains with curtain |
| easy to find unique fishing gear to use as | | | | clips on these swags because they hang below |
| decorating items. Here are a few fun ideas | | | | the bobbers and lures. Curtains with the long |
| for your fishing decor projects. | | | | tabs work great as well. |
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| First you will need fishing gear. My husband | | | | Old fishing poles from yard sales are very |
| is not the fisherman in our family, I am. So | | | | cheap and make great curtain rods. I |
| it's easy for me to save old fishing lures | | | | especially like the cane poles because they |
| that the hooks have dulled and gives me a | | | | are easy to cut to size. |
| great excuse to buy more too! Bobbers have a | | | | |
| tendency to stop floating after a few whacks | | | | Another idea is to hot glue bobbers and lures |
| on the rocks along the shoreline, rendering | | | | all over an old lamp base. I think the more |
| them useless to the fisherman but a great | | | | the better on this project, totally covering |
| find for the decorator. If you confiscate | | | | the base. Of course the lamp size and your |
| gear from hubby's tackle box remember you now | | | | taste make a difference. If it's a very large |
| know what to get him for the next holiday or | | | | lamp or you just don't have enough lures and |
| special occasion! | | | | bobbers you can hot glue solid bands, about 2 |
| | | | inches wide, of hemp rope or twine to fill in |
| Yard sales and estate sales are great for | | | | larger areas. |
| purchasing inexpensive, used fishing | | | | |
| equipment for your decorating projects. Yard | | | | A mobile like you see in babies rooms are fun |
| sales are less risky than hubby's tackle box | | | | and add an interesting art form to your |
| too. Keep an eye out for used fishing nets, | | | | fishing decor. I prefer to hang the fishing |
| poles, lures, bobbers, metal stringers and | | | | gear at different levels instead of all one |
| other gear. | | | | length. Again I use twigs or sticks for this |
| | | | project's "cross" to hang the lures, bobbers |
| The last thing you want is your fishing decor | | | | etc. from and fishing line to tie it all |
| to smell fishy. Be sure to clean everything | | | | together. |
| very carefully and thoroughly. I use alcohol | | | | |
| for lures, bobbers and such. Good detergent | | | | Old wooden picture frames with the glass |
| and bleach for nets. Vinegar and lemon juice | | | | removed make inexpensive picture boxes. Line |
| work well too. | | | | a piece of thin cardboard with brown, tan or |
| | | | dark green felt. You can also use fishing |
| What type of decorating can you do with your | | | | print fabric. Put this covered cardboard in |
| accumulated treasures? This is where the fun | | | | the frame like you would a picture and hot |
| really begins, let your imagination shine. | | | | glue your treasures on the felt. A good trick |
| Here are just a few ideas to get you started. | | | | is to use sets of three. Three lures, one |
| Minnow buckets make good catch all containers | | | | under the other in a corner, three bobbers |
| for bedrooms, kid's rooms and bathrooms for | | | | side by side for a top row, three hand reels |
| items like crayons, hair do-dads, brushes and | | | | in a row at the bottom for weight and one old |
| combs etc. If you are really crafty they can | | | | metal stringer above the reels. |
| be turned into lamps. Buy lamp fixtures at | | | | |
| the hardware store or inexpensive narrow | | | | Things I haven't tried yet but are on my list |
| based lamps that fit into the top opening of | | | | to create include fishing lures with the |
| the minnow bucket. | | | | hooks removed as cabinet handles, bobbers or |
| | | | lures for light pulls, fishing net swag |
| Make your own fishing swag from long pliable | | | | around the bathroom mirror and drift wood |
| twigs, boat line or saining nets. Make sure | | | | with fishing gear as a conversation piece. |
| you either remove the hooks from lures and | | | | |
| replace with twisted wire shaped like hooks | | | | Creating your own fishing decor is fun, |
| or snip the points off with heavy wire | | | | inexpensive and most of all you have unique |
| cutters. I have put chunks of cork on the | | | | decorating items for your home or cabin. |
| ends of each point, these look like baited | | | | Start collecting old fishing gear and let |
| hooks! From the twigs I randomly tie bobbers | | | | your imagination go. |