Bird Cage Repurposed

It's Metamorphosis Monday!  Join in for inspirational projects and re-makes over at Between Naps On The Porch with our hostess Susan.

This birdcage has been a garden yardifact in two gardens for about the last 10 years.  It originally came from one of the Home Depot Expo Design stores on sale because of some defect that I could never find. :-)

In need of a quickie winter project, I decided to give it a shot of spray paint and bring the outdoors inside.  Hoping some color would bring me a bit of Spring inspiration in the gray days of January here in Northern California.  Right on schedule the sun came out today.  3 cans of spray paint later I have a green birdcage looking for some bling!

And what could its purpose possibly be???

I have not a clue, but it sure was a fun, quick and impossible to

mess up project that took about 2 hours to complete.

I'm guessing its purpose is just to BE and it makes me smile.

Added benefits:

My very curious cat Homer can't get into trouble with the candles.

He has a tendency to want to knock candles over to make me crazier than I am!

Benefit #2 is that it was a chance to test the paint color in the kitchen.

I intend to refinish the butcher block island in this color and I'm

pleased to say I think it will be the perfect color.

Mr. TLRT thought this was truly "for the birds."

Which got me to thinking about all the expressions associated with birds:

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Isn't that just ducky?
Nice weather for ducks
Sing like a canary
Duck
Swan song

Sing like a bird

Pecking order

Hen parties
Ugly duckling

As the crow flies

Eyes like a hawk
Loony

A bird's eye view
Night owl
Robin's egg blue

Nest egg
To quit cold turkey
She took him under her wing
Birds of a feather flock together
Don't ruffle her feathers
Free as a bird
A little bird told me
The birds and the bees
(Strictly) for the birds

A lame duck
Crestfallen

Who can say why my mind works the way it does??? It still makes me smile!!!