Recycled Wire Bird Nest

Sometimes when you want to just get out in the yard and enjoy the fresh air but want to do something that doesn't require much effort, but more importantly involves sitting down, try creating a wire bird nest.

I created this one out of left over wire from the garage.  If you're short on wire, how about stripping some wire that you will never, ever end up using that's been sitting around.  Most wire these days involves some copper which is nice because of the aging/patina it takes on.

I started with creating a simple basket shape with the stronger wire to give it a bowl shape and then began weaving the other wires in and around through it building up the thickness.  A added some remnant copper weave/mesh to the bottom.

As a final touch, I took some old silverplate utensils in the "stash" and cut the handles off and soldered them into the nest to resemble twigs.  Some copper leaves from another project tied it all together.  A piece of copper tubing was soldered to the bottom to create a stake.

WARNING:  If you have young ones in the household, your marbles (eggs) will slowly (or quickly) disappear.  I think I used to have about 5 or 6 in here at one time.