Garden Crafts Decorate Outdoor Living Spaces
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Easy Natural Decor for Your Garden, Porch or Patio
Garden crafts are an inexpensive and green way to decorate your home with beautiful plant stands, garden trellises, shelves, flower pots, planters, birdbaths, sculptures, stone work, step stones & ornaments. You can make inexpensive and beautiful garden crafts for your front steps, patio, balcony porch or deck with the ideas you'll find in this lens.
You can make beautiful, creative and inexpensive decorative garden crafts from simple materials like concrete, wood, stones and reclaimed materials or recycled metal, wood and glass. This lens will show you how to turn old furniture, tools and recycled house parts or cast off toys and natural materials into unique garden art for your home or to give as gifts.
Sticks and stones and bits of old stuff make lovely garden decor - all you need is a bit of imagination!
Take A Virtual Tour of My Garden
A glimpse of my garden - spring and summer
Woven Twigs and Vines
Make Your Own Trellises, Plant Supports and Whimsical Garden Art
One of the most fun garden crafts I enjoy is making baskets, plant trellises and garden structures from twigs, vines and saplings from my garden trimmings. This year I'm working on a truly green garden craft. I found an old wire planting basket that was chipped and rusty. Instead of tossing it into the trash, I started weaving flexible twig and vine cuttings from bittersweet, forsythia and wild grapes into the metal spokes. It's coming along slowly and looks like it will be sturdy and attractive. The green vines are the newest weavings - they'll turn brown as they dry out.
Saplings and Twigs Garden Trellis
Natural plant trellis garden craft
When you trim brush or branches from your garden plants in the spring save the sturdiest and straightest branches to nail or lash together and form a natural trellis to support vines or climbing plants in the flower bed or veggie patch.
Sand Cast Concrete Garden Decorations
Make unique, low cost garden decorations
It's easy and economical to craft beautiful garden sculptures, birdbaths and planters for your garden. All you need are some prepackaged vinyl concrete mix from the home supply center.Mix the concrete powder with water, add colorant if desired, then pat the mixture into any mold or form you desire. After the concrete dries, you can leave the finish natural, seal it to resist water and add gloss or add color with acrylic paints.
I made a large, lightweight leaf-embossed birdbath for my garden a few summers ago. Last year I made 6 more sand cast leaf birdbaths to give to friends and family as Christmas gifts.
Make a Leaf Embossed Bird Bath for Your Garden
Easy garden craft made with concrete patch mix
Leaf Embossed Bird Bath Craft Project
It's easy to make a beautiful garden decoration that's also a functional watering spot for birds and butterflies. This leaf embossed concrete bird bath took me only a few hours to shape and a day to dry outdoors.
Garden Crafts Library
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Concrete Crafts: Making Modern Accessories for the Home and Garden by Alan Wycheck
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Decorating Your Garden: A Bouquet of Beautiful and Useful Craft Projects to Make & Enjoy by Mickey Baskett
"As backyards and gardens become living spaces, more...0 points
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Outside the Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Garden by Paul Duchscherer
This third volume in a popular series highlights the more...0 points
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Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty by Diane Rhoades
A collection of 50 garden activities, projects and more...0 points
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Concrete Garden Projects: Easy & Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features & More by Malin Nilsson, Camilla Arvidsson
For gardeners and backyard do-it-yourselfers, concrete more...0 points
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P. Allen Smith's Living in the Garden Home: Connecting the Seasons with Containers, Crafts, and Celebrations (P. Allen Smith Garden Home Books) by P. Allen Smith
For P. Allen Smith, gardening is all about the ant more...0 points
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Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More by Sherri Warner Hunter
Sherri Warner Hunter, author of the bestselling Creating more...0 points
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Painted Garden Art Anyone Can Do by Lin Wellford
Turn ordinary rocks as well as manufactured steppi more...0 points
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The Craft & Art of Bamboo, Revised & Updated: 30 Eco-Friendly Projects to Make for Home & Garden by Carol Stangler
Beautiful, sustainable bamboo is one of the most popular more...0 points
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Enchanted Garden Crafts: 30 Easy Projects Inspired by the Garden by Susan Cousineau
There has been a boom in garden-inspired decorativ more...0 points
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Quick & Easy Handmade Garden Furniture (Quick & Easy (Cico Books)) by Philip Haxell, Kate Haxell
With the right furnishings and accessories, your b more...0 points
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Gifts and Crafts from the Garden: Over 100 Easy-To-Make Projects by Maggie Oster
This is an easy-to-make project book. It is for ma more...0 points
Garden Pavers - Step Stones
Small pavers to form a pathway through your garden
Step stone pavers are practical way to add a bit of natural charm to any garden. You can create pathways with stepping stones made from flat pieces of slate or bluestone, rocks, wooden rounds, bricks or concrete pavers.You can make your own stepping stones from sand cast concrete and decorate them with stamped patterns or add small stones, shells, marbles or mosaic pieces to create design patterns. If you have access to a large supply of flat stones, you can even create a natural stone patio or stone surface design in a corner of your garden.
I made a small garden stepping stone by embedding small stones shaped like Vermont and New Hampshire into a freeform slab of tinted concrete patch mix.
Easy Clay Flower Pot Bird Bath
Decorative Garden Mosaics
Garden Mosaics
Amazon Price: $18.78 (as of 02/16/2012)
Learn a variety of mosaic methods, including groutless techniques with the help of detailed project patterns and step-by-step photography.
Embossed Concrete - Add Punchy Designs to Your Patio or Walkway
Stamped concrete patterns are more interesting than a flat surface for your patio or walkway. You can make your own stamping tools to apply patterns to fresh concrete, or you can buy ready-to-use concrete stamping tools. Better yet, get creative and press interesting leaves onto a wet concrete surface to create unique and lovely designs.Our backyard cabana needed a new concrete surface for our wedding. We mixed the top bonding concrete and spread it out, then pressed ferns and leaves from our garden plants into the wet concrete to make a pattern all over the surface. Remove the leaves as soon as you make the embossed design.
Pebble Mosaics for Your Home and Garden
Pebble Mosaics: 25 Original Step-by-Step Projects for the Home and Garden
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
Step-by-step projects for paths, planters, and decorative objects made from natural pebbles, shells, and pottery shards.
Hypertufa Stone Planters and Garden Crafts
Kick your concrete garden crafts up a notch - make Hypertufa planters
Hypertufa is a garden craft concrete mixture used to create objects that look like rustic stones or volcanic rock
The basic ingredients include Portland cement, peat moss, sand, vermiculite (or perlite) and water. You can simplify the recipe mixture by using premixed patching concrete (sand mix) combined with peat moss and perlite or vermiculite.
Hypertufa planting containers are weatherproof and very durable. You can use hypertufa pottery mix to craft many different formal or free form shaped and molded garden crafts and decorations: stepping stones, sculptures, pots or decorative artificial boulders.
For our garden wedding, we used hypertufa to create unique centerpieces for each guest table under the tent. First we shaped a piece of 1-inch builder's rigid foam insulation board into a kidney shape about 12 inches long by 8 inches wide. Next we attached a square of floral oasis to one end and dovered it with the hypertufa mix to create a mountain planter area on the island. We added a hypertufa mound to the foam base at one end, and covered all the but top of the oasis block with hypertufa mix.
At the approximate center we positioned a 6-inch tall tin candle lantern. Next we embedded shells, driftwood, small stones and bits of greenery into the edges and flat areas of the island terrain. When the hypertufa was dry, we moistened the oasis and added greens and fresh flowers. During our wedding reception the candle lantern held a natural citronella tea light.
Recycled Sap Bucket Planter
A repurposed maple sap collection bucket gets new life as a hanging flower planter
Vermont is the United States largest producer of maple syrup. Most large scale maple sugaring operations switched from the labor-intensive hanging bucket sap collectors to high-tech tubing that drains into large tanks. Sugar bush farmers who make the change sell their old sap collection buckets at flea markets and farm sales. My daughter lives in Vermont, the land of maple sugaring, and she bought a vintage sap bucket from her favorite maple sugar producer a few years ago. Now the sap bucket hangs from a post instead of a tree, and it holds lovely flowers all summer long.
Concrete Garden Crafts
Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More
Amazon Price: $14.58 (as of 02/16/2012)
Concrete isn't just for sidewalks anymore; it's perfect for the garden too. A selection of 30 beautiful designs suggests the range of this increasingly popular material, and the illustrated instructions make the craft's fundamentals easy to learn.
Stone Work - Sculptural Arrangements
Stacks of stones, rocks and pebbles make beautiful garden sculptures
Human beings have arranged stones in sculptural patterns for communication, worship, building and decoration for thousands of years.You can create interesting rustic garden sculptures using stacks of stones, stone walls in large or small arrangements or create artistic stacks and patterns with beautiful rocks of all sizes and shapes.
If you have access to many irregularly shaped stones use your imagination to find a natural sculpture like the "rabbit" rock in the photo for this section (shown larger, below).
Natural Sculpture: Rabbit Shaped Rock
Stone Garden Arrangements You Can Make
Outdoor Stonework: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
Flower Pot Bird Bath
Make a Clay Birdbath or Butterfly Sipper in 5 minutes.
Make a low-profile lightweight bird bath for your balcony, deck, garden or porch. All you need are a large clay flower pot and an oversize clay plant drain saucer. Turn the flower pot upside down and place the drain saucer on top.Fill the saucer halfway with water, add a small rock and watch the birds and butterflies enjoy their tiny swimming pool.
Clay Pipe Flower Pot Stand
Decorate Your Garden with Found Objects
Old furniture, tools, boxes and baskets can bring whimsy and artful rustic decor to your garden.Recycle wooden ladders, carts or wagons, watering cans, spoked wheels, barrels and boxes. Paint old chairs or tools and place in a flower bed.
Paint an old bicycle in a color to coordinate with your home. Add a big basket to the handlebars and plant it with cascading flowers. Place this DIY garden sculpture near your front door in the garden or at the base of your porch steps.
Rain Chains - An Alternative to Downspouts
Make Beautiful Music When the Rain Falls
If you have a rain gutter on your home you can remove the downspout and attach a beautiful rain chain to the end where the water leaves the gutter. It will distribute the flow of water while making music when the weather's rainy, and when the sun's shining your rain chain hangs vertically is a piece of artwork.
Replace Your Downspout with a Rain Chain
Musical Beauty, Enhanced by Mother Nature
How to Make and Install a Rain Chain
GIY - Green It Yourself
Garden Tools as Decorations
Antiques From The Garden
Amazon Price: $95.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
Decorate the garden with old tools: watering cans, pots, rakes, shovels, carts and early mowers.
Recycled Work Boot Flower Pots
Decorations and Gifts for Gardeners
Copper Garden Crafts
Trellis Craft: How to Make Your Own Copper Pipe Garden Ornaments
Amazon Price: $17.89 (as of 02/16/2012)
Copper is easy to work with to create garden decorations.
Natural Elements Add Visual Interest to Your Garden
Use interesting branches, vines and logs as a trellis frame or display foundation for plants or vines in the garden, on the deck or in a corner of your porch.Find a gnarled deadwood branch, twist some decorative mini lights around it, and hang it from the porch rafters or stand it in a corner.
Wind Chimes and Garden Mobiles
Craft a simple beach-theme mobile/wind chime from 8-10 sea shells, fishing line or nautical twin and an interesting tree branch or piece of driftwood.
Garden Decor Wind Chimes
Music, Movement, Beauty
Encore Collection Garden Bells by Woodstock Chimes
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Woodstock Healing Chime
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Wind Chime Round Top Hummingbird Hanging Garden Decoration Windchime
This gorgeous Wind Chime Round Top Hummingbird Hanging more...0 points
Woodstock Chimes Temple Bells, Quintet
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Woodstock Chimes Tibetan Prayer Windchime
The Tibetan Prayer Chime is tuned to the musical t more...0 points
Woodstock Chimes Gregorian Alto Windchime
Immerse yourself in the peaceful patterns of Grego more...0 points
Woodstock Celtic Chime
A slice of natural green agate serves as a windcat more...0 points
Wind Chime Hummingbird Duet Chandelier Mobile Style, 3 Acrylic Prisms Creates a Sparkling Colorful Effect in Bright Sunlight, Indoor - Outdoor Decor 20 Inches
A Bright Colorful Wind Chime, Looks great in home more...0 points
Woodstock Pachelbel Canon Windchime, Bronze, 32-1/2-Inch Long
Recalls the soft, repeating melody of Johann Pache more...0 points
Woodstock Chimes Gregorian Tenor Windchime
Immerse yourself in the peaceful patterns of Grego more...0 points
Woodstock Bells of Morocco
Gentle tones combined with deep colors and exotic more...0 points
Asli Arts Collection C101 Large Half Coconut Top Bamboo Chime
Transport yourself to the tropics with a gentle lu more...0 points
Red Carpet Studio 32 Inch Spiral Wind Chimes w/Heart Chrystals
The Red Carpet Studio 32-inch Copper plated with r more...0 points
Woodstock Chimes Moonlight Waves
Layers of antique copper finished waves bring beau more...0 points
Asli Arts Collection C204 Yellow, Gold, Red Capiz Chime
An eclectic mix of coins, mirrors and shells, this more...0 points
Wonderful Garden Wind Chimes
Tibetan Prayer Bells Make Beautiful Music
Craft a simple beach-theme mobile/wind chime from 8-10 sea shells, fishing line or nautical twin and an interesting tree branch or piece of driftwood.
Woodstock Chimes Tibetan Prayer Windchime
Amazon Price: $35.27 (as of 02/16/2012)
The breeze gently ripples a wind chime and nature plays a different tune depending on the strength and direction the winds blow.
Dry Creek Stone Path
Garden Lovers Take Note
Garden Flags and Porch Banners
Wind Socks, Streamers, Kites and More...
Easy Garden Flags If you can sew a straight line, you can make a simple banner or flag from a favorite fabric panel. Cut the banner to the size you want, stitch hems around the edges, and add a pole pocket to one end. Run a curtain rod or dowel through the pocket and suspend your banner from a porch rafter or against a wall.
Batik-look Banner My daughter made a beautiful garden flag to hang from her deck railing. First, she stitched up a basic flag with pole pocket from a deep-toned cotton fabric. Next she sketched a design with chalk starting from the center. Finally, wearing gloves and working outdoors in a well-ventilated area she traced over the chalk lines with a bleach pen (the kind you use for removing stains from clothing when you're on the go.) After a quick rinse in cool water, she hung her custom flag to dry from its pole.
Garden Flags
Garden Flag Stands
Add a lovely banner flag holder to your garden
Holiday Garden Decor
Holiday Flags for Your Garden
Garden Decor: Purple Chair, Flowers, Flags
Gardeners Portable Seat and Tool Caddy
Carry garden tools and have a handy spot to sit
MintCraft Folding Garden Stool
Amazon Price: $18.67 (as of 02/16/2012)
Save your back and keep all your tools handy with this portable gardening seat.
Garden Craft Project Links
- Make Garden Stepping Stones - Step-By-Step Directions
- Here are some step-by-step directions to help you make your own garden stepping stones.
- Hypertufa Recipe for the Beginner | Easy To Make 'Tufa Recipe
- Easy hypertufa recipe. Just learning about hypertufa? This hypertufa recipe allows you to experiment without investing in a lot of ingredients.
- Safety Guidelines for Working with Concrete Mixtures
- Read these important hypertufa safety recommendations before you start a project. Hypertufa uses cement--a caustic ingredient. Practice Safety First!
- Garden & Patio - Mosaics, Woodworking, Wind Chimes & Garden Crafts : DIY Network
- Do-it-yourself garden crafts - furniture, cinder block constructions, patio mosaics, woodworking, wind chimes, privacy screens, birdfeeders and window boxes.
- Gardening and Landscaping Your Family Yard
- Garden Design and Outdoor Decorating: How To Choose And Place Garden Art In Your Outdoor Living Spaces - Garden, Porch, Balcony or Patio
- Decorate with Natural Objects and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
- Surrounded by natures-best-decorations? Use what Mother-Nature gave you.
- TLC Family - Top 5 Recycled Plant Containers
- Recycled planter container crafts are a great way to display your beautiful flowers. Learn more about these top 5 recycled planter container crafts.
Natural Garden Decor
Use interesting branches, vines and logs as a trellis frame or display foundation for plants or vines in the garden, on the deck or in a corner of your porch.
Find a gnarled deadwood branch, twist some decorative mini lights around it, and hang it from the porch rafters or stand it in a corner.
Angel Blessings - Gardener's Delight
Thank you Squid Angels!
This garden decor and garden crafts lens has been blessed by these garden loving Squid Angels:monarch13
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mgs249
Jan 19, 2012 @ 2:54 pm | delete
- These are great ideas. I live in a small apartment and miss gardening, but I may be able to incorporate some of your ideas to use on my balcony. My son is a graphics artist in California, but I live in Texas. Thanks
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flycatcher
Dec 25, 2011 @ 5:33 pm | delete
- Beautiful to look at and think about, in the heart of a long dark Canadian winter... and now I'm quite intrigued by the possibilities of this hypertufa stuff!
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PhilRC
Dec 12, 2011 @ 9:07 am | delete
- You have some great ideas and tips here - I will have to bookmark and come back quite often. For the time being I am going to try out the Natural Trellis suggestion.
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waldenthree.net
Dec 1, 2011 @ 4:30 pm | delete
- Great photos and valuable presentation. Love monitoring "green living" success models and sharing such those that inspires me. Thanks.
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KarenTBTEN
Nov 26, 2011 @ 10:15 pm | delete
- As soon as you wrote that you had a video tour of your garden, and it was 30 seconds long, I was thinking Animoto. Animoto is great. This garden lens is great. SquidAngel blessings.
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poddys
Nov 18, 2011 @ 5:12 pm | delete
- Love the trellis, you have a wonderful garden and some great ideas. Blessed.
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KitandCaboodle Nov 13, 2011 @ 2:30 pm | delete
- Great lens. I'll need to add some of this natural beauty to my garden.
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ModernChakra
Nov 13, 2011 @ 12:14 pm | delete
- Great lens and definitely one I am going to share with my mother, such an avid gardener. I tend to take garden ornaments and put a few inside the home as well.... Thank you for the wonderful resource. Take care.
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BuddyBink
Nov 12, 2011 @ 1:32 pm | delete
- Some great ideas for the garden landscaping. Well done.
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jasmineann
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- Lovely ideas for garden decoration. I do love winds chimes and I like the boot flower pots:)
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JoshK47
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- Absolutely beautiful decor! Thanks so much for sharing, blessed by a SquidAngel!
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PaulOnBooks
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- Found this while on a quest - alas it doesn;t fir the quest but it certainly merits a Blessing!
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Moonbeam973
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- Thanks for sharing such beautiful and interesting gardening ideas : )
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gonzalezdenise
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- I love it, I love flowering.
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jeremyh1
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- Your lens are providing really great information. Great lens.
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Index: Garden Decor and Crafts
- Take A Virtual Tour of My Garden
- Woven Twigs and Vines
- Saplings and Twigs Garden Trellis
- Sand Cast Concrete Garden Decorations
- Make a Leaf Embossed Bird Bath for Your Garden
- Garden Crafts Library
- Garden Pavers - Step Stones
- Easy Clay Flower Pot Bird Bath
- Decorative Garden Mosaics
- Embossed Concrete - Add Punchy Designs to Your Patio or Walkway
- Pebble Mosaics for Your Home and Garden
- Hypertufa Stone Planters and Garden Crafts
- Recycled Sap Bucket Planter
- Concrete Garden Crafts
- Stone Work - Sculptural Arrangements
- Natural Sculpture: Rabbit Shaped Rock
- Stone Garden Arrangements You Can Make
- Flower Pot Bird Bath
- Clay Pipe Flower Pot Stand
- Decorate Your Garden with Found Objects
- Rain Chains - An Alternative to Downspouts
- Replace Your Downspout with a Rain Chain
- How to Make and Install a Rain Chain
- Garden Tools as Decorations
- Recycled Work Boot Flower Pots
- Decorations and Gifts for Gardeners
- Copper Garden Crafts
- Natural Elements Add Visual Interest to Your Garden
- Wind Chimes and Garden Mobiles
- Garden Decor Wind Chimes
- Wonderful Garden Wind Chimes
- Dry Creek Stone Path
- Garden Lovers Take Note
- Garden Flags and Porch Banners
- Garden Flags
- Garden Flag Stands
- Holiday Garden Decor
- Garden Decor: Purple Chair, Flowers, Flags
- Gardeners Portable Seat and Tool Caddy
- Garden Craft Project Links
- Natural Garden Decor
- Angel Blessings - Gardener's Delight
- Garden Decor Lenses
- Leave a Comment, Make a Suggestion
- I Love My Garden and Patio
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