Home made door stop

butler_helen

I used marbles in the end with some stuffing around them - it feels really cool and looks great (if a little cellulitey).

Chris25

butler_helen wrote: »

I used marbles in the end with some stuffing around them - it feels really cool and looks great (if a little cellulitey).

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WASHER

pol wrote: »

I bought a teddy from a charity shop, unpicked his bottom:rolleyes: and filled part of him with some marbles and those glass beads you put in vases. Sewn back up, he sits and holds the door open and looks a real cutie!

pol

Guess where I'm going tomorrow..charity shop, I look this idea, my backdoor will not stay open for love nor money, I love to have fresh air in my ulility room and I've no windows, only a fan, which I won't use cause it costs me pennies.

tandraig

look in charity shops is great idea - be creative - just look for something heavy that you like and isnt too fat - my OH is really clumsy. I use a big metal buddha when i need to prop open my middle door (if the other two doors are open its like a wind tunnel!

katieowl_2

I've been eyeing up nice Owl and Chicken door stops, and I need one to stop the dining room door slamming...They were sort of £15+ and I really didn't want to spend the money.

My Daughter was talking about some stuff they had on sale in the cafe where she'd been working this summer, where this person had bought charity shop toys and 'done stuff' to them like make them crochet brooches and hats, and some of them she'd stuffed with lavender, and weighted to make door stops.

I had one of those Ka-ching moments, and in the space of ten minutes I've just turned a large Disney rat that the kids bought me a few years ago (Emile from Ratatouille) into my new doorstop :T

I unpicked about two inches where the label was at the back, discovered that the plastic weighting beans in it already were in a little mesh bag...remembered that the dried peas I bought to sprout for pea shoots had a similar bag in, got it, stuffed it in the hole and made a funnel with a bit of cardboard, filled the bag with gravel off the drive(!) and tied it off, and sewed Emile shut! Simples...totally unique ratty door stop!!! Just have to hope that the dogs ignore it...


Kate

Rainy-Days

£15.00 for a door stop - words fail me they really do!

Whats that cost you pennies and little bit of time, but given you so much more pleasure in the longer term. I had to go into town today and quite honestly I couldn't wait to get home. I spent not very much but simply hated the shopping 'experience'. Am I turning into a proverbial old fart - maybe! Maybe I just see the fact that we have become a consumer society and fed up of being ripped off. I apprecaite my home and the comforts it brings. Even though at the moment we have had to have work done and spent on it, I do find my home a sanctuary away from madness that is this country!

In the main most of us have so much stuff we just don't need any more to add to it. Make do and mend, thats a good one!

tryingtobethrifty

What a great idea! I have tons of stuffed toys in the roofspace, I may go up and get one later to try. I got a new sewing machine last night from Lidls. I now think I am the most crafty person in the world - if only :rotfl:!

mummy2jack

Brilliant idea! .. Just going to have dinner then I'm going on a soft toy hunt in the toy room! :rotfl:

dandy-candy

Good job! I remember seeing a sweet quilted cottage as a doorstop once - inside was a brick!

anguk

If you've got an old teddy bear that sits up they make fantastic door stops. Just unpick the bum and put something heavy like gravel, sand or half brick inside and restitch. You'll end up with something like this but much cheaper:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004MYVVYO/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B004TX65CQ&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=104S85BS5JYFJXB96NYN