Hold still while I spray you!

It's amazing what you can do with one can of spray paint. 

The lion plaque on our wall was looking really faded and old. After I sprayed it with the paint it looked a bit too shiny and new, so I rubbed in black shoe polish all over and left traces of it over the plaque then applied a gloss varnish spray to seal in the polish.

I sprayed the rabbit too, and again added some shoe polish into the markings, but added a coat of matt clear varnish, as I didn't think a glossy sage green rabbit looked quite right, and also it should help to protect it a little better from the elements.

 I took a horrid old metal flower pot and painted it with the green paint, then masked off the bottom and just sprayed the rim with a black paint. The last time I was in the States I bought a few small wooden bits and pieces in Michaels, to use for a piece of artwork, but as usual didn't get around to doing it, so I sprayed the bird black and added him to the flower pot. Originally I sprayed the bird blue, then silver but didn't like it so I went with black which echoes the rim. 

So I've cheaply renovated 3 things in the garden. The next job is to paint the black rusty outdoor tap, if it ever stops raining long enough to get the job done.