Tobacco Stick Chair
Here's a cute, primitive tobacco stick chair my husband made after I drew it out. I wanted something to just sit out in the yard to hold a flower pot for decoration.
With lots of extra tobacco sticks laying around, I've found a few
decorative uses for them.
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| A bunch of old, weathered tobacco sticks I keep in a trash can ready for crafts. |
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| Here is some tobacco sticks I just laid out in the shape of stars. |
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I made, (my husband nailed it, as I said
where to, lol) this cute tobacco stick chair.
For this one in the top photo, I put a flower pot in it and some grapevine twig garland wrapped at top for decoration. And a piece of homespun tied to it.
For this one in the top photo, I put a flower pot in it and some grapevine twig garland wrapped at top for decoration. And a piece of homespun tied to it.
It's gonna sit by the entry
and hold a sign to welcome guests. I just love it.
Here it is all plain again so you can see it:
Here it is all plain again so you can see it:
Oh well, I hung decorations on it.
I also brushed on some streaks of black paint to prim it up a tad. And
attached a bit of grapevine along with a hand painted welcome sign to
get it ready for sale in the winter month.
UPDATE:
Since many people ask me what tobacco sticks are, I thought I'd add this.
Sorry, I grew up in KY and just thought everyone knew of them.
These old tobacco sticks were used in the fields when growing tobacco, and were
speared through the tops of the stalks.
They were essential for
"hanging" the tobacco in the barns to cure.
A lot of stalks of tobacco
could be slid onto one tobacco stick. And then they were then hung up on the rafters
in the barn to cure.
The tobacco looks like this in a bunch:
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| Photo: By Me of a bunch of real tobacco |
Finding a use for old tobacco sticks is pretty challenging. Yet I love
the look of them indoors, so I like a challenge. They are a perfect
touch for a cute country or prim styled home. The first thing I made
turned out looking like a tree of some kind. So I call it my tobacco stick tree. I decorate it with homemade rag ropes and lights of the season.
I ended up putting this in my Peddlers Mall Booth #555, for $19.99.
SOLD
THANK YOU!
It'd be a great welcome to any guest at your home.
You can change out the hanging sign to fit your mood or holiday!
I just love it.
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Here is my first try at making a tobacco stick tree:
Since first making this one, I've started making them way slimmer and about 5ft tall and
some even shorter, table top versions.
Here's a link:
Primitive Tobacco Stick Grapevine Tree
And here is my second try at making a tobacco stick tree:
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