Fixing a screen

I've neglected the "making stuff with other stuff" genre for a while, so to make up for lost time, here's a little whoop-de-doo about fixing a screen with another screen.   Not super creative, I admit, but satisfying nonetheless.

This was a screen in a door; people* had pushed on the screen to open the door instead of the frame to open the door, and so the screen ripped right at the edge.  

[* "People" could be named, but -- side eye in the direction
of husband --won't be named nonetheless].

Duct tape was not an effective fix, by the way.

Fortunately, I happened to have a screen from an old storm window.  I'd saved a few of these out in the backyard for use in my solar dehydrator, and was very happy to sacrifice a large one to do new duty in the front door.   I had help from a neighbor, the bald-faced hornet who'd been so busy building a residence in the eaves next door.  

Little baldy was actually deceased, poor critter.
I knocked her off the screen.  

The mesh of a screen is held in place in the frame with a string of tubing -- in the picture below you can see a bit of this white tubing I've pulled out from one corner as I start to remove the old screen.  Prewash enjoys the porch in the background. 

I borrowed this tool (below) from a handy friend; it looks a tad like a pizza cutter, but is actually used for squooshing the tubing into the groove.  You can reuse the tubing (at least, that's what I did, and it worked just fine).  

Here's the screen I'm repairing, on the ground, with some of the tubing lying around, and empty screen frame standing, and the replacement screen obviously still way too big for its new frame.   A bit of trimming with scissors fixed it all up.

And that was all!  About 15 or 20 minutes of work, and about $0 spent, and done.  Better yet, the only trash was a bit of left-over tubing (I had the tubing from both screens,  but only needed enough for the one front door screen). The old frame will go to a scrap metal collector we know.  I've rolled up the old nylon screen, and we'll see if Habitat Restore wants it.  Someone with a smaller door than mine might be able to use it, after all!

My flower mask

 Church:  I like to have something to do with my hands while I listen to the sermon.  And, inspired by our congregation's Flower Team that does amazing displays every week, I made a flower mask.

It's multi-layer (four layers of fabric), and the stitches holding the flowers on go only through the first two layers.  

Not everyone at my church wears masks.  Okay, actually, very few people at my church wear masks.  I wear a bunch of over-the-top masks  --- kitty cat with whiskers, mustache mask, appliqued church logo, beaded and buttoned --- and I tell people, "I do this so no-one has to walk in to church being the first or the only one.  If I'm there, they're not alone."    And for whatever reason, there are now more masked parishioners.

I can't wait to wear this one, though.   Next Sunday!

Stunt dog

You know that scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid jump off a cliff into the waters far below?

My dog is practicing to be a stunt double, so she can perform that part herself, and to play the role of the jumper who didn't manage to survive the fall.

Look how good she is already . . . 

She's ready for an agent to sign her up.