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## <center>Sometimes when you have a project in mind, you've just got to wait for the right idea to fully manifest itself.</center>

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This was a fun one that I've been brainstorming on for a while. It took some time, but eventually the right solution came to me, and it looks like it is really going to work. Check it out!

http://i.imgur.com/uVNBbyL.jpg

## <center>"MY SOLUTION" VIDEO</center>
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https://youtu.be/rEJKHKPxiyY

http://i.imgur.com/uVNBbyL.jpg

## <center>THE BACK-STORY AND SOLUTION!</center>
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https://i.imgur.com/6r0B711.jpg

Last year, we finally grew our first birdhouse gourds ever! We had wanted to for years and finally got around to it. In my typical style, I wanted to find a natural way to hang these dried gourds to use as birdhouses. I did not want to use wire or manufactured string, so I had to think outside the box.

https://youtu.be/iAXmsJOTd-0

My first thought was to make some homemade cordage out of some sort of plant fiber, like Stinging Nettle as I demonstrate above. However, plant fibers can deteriorate rather quickly when they are exposed to the elements. While I am not sure how long the birdhouse gourd itself would last outside in the elements, I'm guessing that within two years my homemade nettle cordage would break. Ultimately, I was hoping for a longer lasting option.

https://i.imgur.com/zrY9SZm.jpg

Thankfully, we've been shearing sheep lately and saving their fiber. A friend is planning on teaching the @little-peppers how to spin their own wool, so we are looking forward to that. While we were waiting, I had an idea. Wool cordage! I could make my own cordage out of wool, which would last longer than if I made it out of plant fiber!

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Sure enough, I was soon cranking out some wool cordage. This stuff is raw too, as I did not wash, clean, or do anything else to the wool. I just used the same process that I demonstrated above with the stinging nettle but substituted the sheep wool.

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Now we have an attractive, yet raw and natural, way to hang our birdhouse gourds! In the future I may begin to woodburn designs in them too, but for now we are going "all-natural!" So, what do you think? They are simple, functional, and homemade at least, which was technically what I was going for.

https://i.imgur.com/9qd6eqf.jpg   


## As always, I'm @papa-pepper and *here's the proof:*
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proof-of-solution

https://i.imgur.com/UOUY6uO.png

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