Almost two years ago I saw a photo in a magazine of a spoon ornament that had some moss and an miniature egg on it. I immediately got my drill and tried to drill a hole through one of my disposal chewed up spoons. I almost started a fire but I simply couldn’t get that ding a ling hole drilled. And besides, I had tassels to make.
Then a few weeks ago my mom and I found some beautiful silver plate spoons and I remembered that photo. I couldn’t find it anywhere but that didn’t matter, I knew just what to do.
I asked my husband to help me. I found a heavy duty drill bit and he used his heavy duty drill and it still smelled like we were trying to melt metal but it worked. We had holes.
Then my mom came over and we glued all sorts of moss and bark and tiny eggs and shells and berries and stuff onto the bowl of the spoon. We also bent most of the spoons up a little on the end so the nesting part wouldn’t look like it was going to slip off.
We’ve got iced tea spoons and soup spoons and ladles, some have monograms and stampings and some are showing beautiful wear, proving they’ve been loved before they were separated from their sets. I wanted to think of a catchy name for them and I thought Nesting Spoons would fit nicely, you know Nesting Place, Nesting Spoons?
This is the part where I show you far too many photos.
I know what you are thinking, ok, they are pretty charming, but what’s a person supposed to do with them?
Remember tassels? Yep, same kind of thing. Beautiful, needless, purely unnecessary, and I must have them all.
I love them layered on a lamp.
Or layered on a lamp. Have I mentioned layered on a lamp? One looks lovely hanging from a knob in my kitchen and on my armoire.
Here’s an idea, you can hang it on a lamp. I’m a little partial to that one if you haven’t noticed.
If you have any random spoons laying around, you can drill a hole and add some little pretties to it and have a beautiful little conversations piece. Or, if you don’t want to make your own, we have 10 Nesting Spoons for sale in the ebay shop–all starting at 99 cents of course. Each Nesting Spoon is a unique silver plate spoon, not aluminum or anything cheap, each one has its own personality and is branded with the Nesting Place ribbon. They are so adorable!
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Start doing your finger stretches because, tomorrow is Giveaway Day! We’ve got 28 giveaways and the plan is to have a new giveaway up every hour. However, if the past few giveaways are any indication, I may need to spread the giveaways out over a longer period of time so Nesting Place doesn’t wonky up the server. So if you come here tomorrow and get some crazy error page, promise me you’ll continue to check back, it just means that the giveaways are so impossibly wonderful that we are knocking out the internet!
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How cute! It’s amazing what you can do with a little bit of imagination, a drill, and a glue gun. :)
Have a great week.
These are so cool! Love this idea!
I love spoons like these! I’m always on the lookout for some, but it seems like I can never find any. And, it goes without saying…you never fail to amaze me with your creativity.
well now thats just stinkin cute
I love the spoons! They are adorable. I want a million for my Christmas Tree!
Too, too cute! I love those, what a clever little idea!
what a new & fresh & lovely idea. combining all the things we love: old silver, nests & tassels! this is such a wonderful idea. i love it!
what beautiful photos to start the week off with. hope it’s a great one for you!
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What a cute idea!
How adorable! I think they would be beautiful at each place setting on an Easter table! How about surprising each of your neighbors with one tied to their front door Easter morning…hmmm, I think I just might!!
~kristin
Those are so cute!
Adorable! You know me, I’m a sucker for a pretty nest!
These spoons are so adorable. I just bought a pack of mini eggs at Joann Fabric last weekend. Now I know how to use them.
Simply stunning!! Thanks for sharing!
Very pretty. I was wondering where you were going with these – but love the way you used them – esp on the lamp!
They are adorable! How fun.
How cute are these! Love them! I really like them layered on a lamp. ;)
Pure genius! Love it!
Mary Ellen
Our youngest daughter is adopted from Russia. When a Russian friend was here to visit years ago he commented on the fact that we Americans have many “nothings” in our house. Things that serve no useful purpose but that we insist on having hanging around.
Your nesting spoons are a beautiful “nothing”.
Adorable! I have just the “reinvented” lamps to hang them from. So cute!
those are so adorable!!
Love IT!! And your mom is amazing. I need to get my mom into the crafting side of things. :) So, you drilled the holes, but how did you affix them to some of the surfaces? Like the lamp…with some double sides strong tape? And too many pictures? NEVER EVER!! Don’t say such a thing.
huh? I put a ribbon through the hole you silly girl!
Haha!! Blonde much? lol…sorry…couldn’t resist…
adorable!
I have something like this that I made a few years ago! There’s no hole drilled in mine, instead it’s mounted to a piece of board and framed! And here I thought I was being clever and had come up with something new.
BTW, I have a great idea for them. You could layer them. On a lamp! How fab would that look????
heart you!
Sooooo sweet! I love tiny things and those are adorable!!!!! Thanks for showing us . It’s true we have a lot of “nothings” around, and they are so much fun! If not for the pretty nothings in life I think I would shrivel up and die!
What an interesting idea! Fun crafts + fun time with your Mom = a great day!
They are so pretty and I so agree with you, hanging on a lamp is perfect. They really are beautiful.. Hugs, Marty
Oh. My. Cheese. How precious! I loooove them!
Adorable! They are so sweet. I literally lol’d at your “here’s an idea…you can hang it on a lamp” Thanks!
Nester, you and your mom are so clever! I love this idea. Many years ago, here in my neck of the woods (Pa.) some crafty girls were glueing tiny straw flowers into little arrangements and glueing it into old spoons! They were darling. Love the hanging from a ribbon idea, too! Nice job!
Beautiful nest spoons. :) I love the little robin’s eggs. I FINALLY tried a mistreatment and posted about it on my blog today (the post is called “Dressing Up My Window” if you have a chance to check it out). I was so proud of myself…thanks for encouraging us and letting us know that it’s okay if we don’t have $$$ custom drapes. ;)
Nester, these are just. plain. adorable. ADORABLE. You are brilliant.
28 giveaways tomorrow? How exciting!
Those are fantastic!
Adorable! And I LOVE them hanging on a lamp! : )
Those are adorable! I love them on the lamps too. :)
I think you’ve hit a home run, babe !!!
Why didn’t I think of this? Super, just super. But starting @ $.99 is a bit low isn’t it?
xx’s Marsha
SOOOO CUTE!!! How clever are you? Very!
LOVE LOVE LOVE these!!!
How neat is that! I love it! Great for hanging in a kitchen or dining room {you know, cause it’s silverware}.
They are beautiful! You go, girl, drill away!
Marie @ Lemondrop ViNtAge
I love those, thanks for sharing!
I have to ask–are you actually able to keep those things hanging where you leave them????
Because I know around here, one of my 5 would have picked the “pretties” out of the moss, and be whacking one of their siblings with the spoon inside of a day, day and a half tops. Which would result in moss flying everywhere.
Its not that they are hoydens…but boy….lol….
My lamps are too ugly to put these cute little things on! Must secure some free and gorgeous lamps somewhere…and then find somewhere to plug them in where my daughter won’t try to eat the cord…oh, never mind.
Those are adorable!!
Looking forward to giveaway day !!
Have spoons…..will do this. I love them, and bird eggs are so ‘now’ in decorating the home.
How do you think of this stuff! That’s amazing. I often tell myself to ‘just think like the Nester’ but I am just not that good. I have been trying to decorate 3 shelves of either side of my t.v all morning and think now, it just looks better empty!
My house will never be as cute as yours! If only I had $$ to fly you in…….
I love a little pretty….How about this idea?…hang them from a small garden tree right before the leave buds come….or hang them from the chandelier over your table….Cute idea….springy too! ~Chris Ann
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Yes, yes a million times yes!
Here’s another idea~layer them on a….LAMP!
…wait, did I already say that?
So sweet! Can’t wait for giveaway day tomorrow! I’m feeling lucky! :)
They are so adorable. I don’t know about you guys, I think they’d be an amazing addition to a lamp! I do love them. Great job recycling!
ugh, why didn’t I think of that! Yes, attention people, put these spoons on a LAMP! Here’s a great thought that you have never heard, LAYER them.
I should be scheduling giveaways or mopping or anything other than this.
oh goodness me. those spoons are utterly adorable!
Ok, I gave a wrong link up there…..love the spoons. I had to go check my ‘yucky silver spoon’ section of the drawer.
Very cute!
Never too many pictures… they are precious!
jean
Cool! I have a handful of spoons my MIL gave me. They’re just lightweight stainless, but they have an “F” on them in a really pretty pattern. I think I could make this work!
cutest things ever!
Oh my gosh, these are too sweet. I’ll make one for my daughter-in-law for her birthday. Hopefully, she hasn’t seen this post and she’ll think I’m so clever! he he Just kidding. I always give credit where it’s due and tell everyone my great deals and where I got them. Then when I go there again, it’s picked over….oh well. I digress. Sorry. ; )
one of the cutest things I have seen in a long time…and I go to market and see a lot….I love this….
You clever, crafty girl, you! Simply beautiful! I was thinking they might look good hanging from a lamp… :)
Amy
truly gorgeous!!!
How about hanging on an Easter tree??? so cute.
Those are really pretty and unique. Where do you find your little eggs? I have never seen such lovely miniatures.
Um, love! You’ve got some mad glue-gun skills deary. Very unique and fresh and vintage all at the same time.
Very cute–great for Spring and Easter decor!
Melinda
those are BEYOND precious. i love how cradled they are in that little spoon! i happen to have a few mismatched silver spoons that i was just going to dontate to goodwill.. not any more! thanks so much for sharing the inspriation! i am filing at thecraftersfilebox.com.
I love old flatware. I have a shelf (that my sis in law made)made from old spoons. She took a board and drilled the spoons (with holes like yours)into the board. Then she turned the spoons upward. Mine is holding old egg beaters but it would be lovely with aprons or scarves, anything really.
Oh my gosh those spoons are so so so adorable!
Adorable–very creative.
These are so cute!
I love these! I am inspired…
love them tied to a lamp!
I love these!
meteorgirl88@aol.com
soo cute
OMG….I want one. How adorable.
Swweeeettt! My fingers are crossed!
decortoadore@hotmail.com
I’m in love. I collect antique silverware and have it all over my dining room. this would be the perfect addition.
Those really are cute. I might try making one. Will you come decorate my home? :-)
My house is small, I am sure you could whip it into shape in a couple of hours. :-)
Stop it right now, Nester! You are just so freaking creative I want to kiss your forehead. These rock.
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These are SO cute!
I’m following one on ebay!
You are so creative! :)
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Those are just adorable!
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