Giving Back to Our Community - Shop with a Cop Program

This month we donated $100 to DeKalb Fraternal Order of Police's "Shop with a Cop" program. School children in the foster care system shop for back to school supplies and school clothing with a police officer. Several merchants in the area, including Walmart, recognize the program and give a 50% discount. Lets hear it for the men and women in blue, going above and beyond. All officers that help these kids do so on their own time, off-duty. We're glad to help this worthy cause!

Customer Spotlight - Monica Hancock

Our customer, Monica Hancock, was nice enough to share pictures of her work.

She collects glass chargers, dinner plates, salad plates, bread plates and small bowls from local thrift shops. She then layers them in an appealing color combination and drills a 1/8” or 3/16” hole through the plates and bowls.


The center of her flower is a glass drawer or cabinet pull. The threaded stem of the pull goes through the glass and through a wooden stake. The stake acts as the stem of the flower. The stems can also be made from copper pipes or electrical conduit. A washer and hex nut on the back of the stake hold everything in place.

To hold everything in place, you can either glue the glass pieces together or let the pressure from the drawer pull and nut hold everything in place. Place the “stem” in the ground and you’re done!

These flowers can also be mounted on fences, walls or anywhere you want some extra color in your home or yard.

Great idea. Thank you Monica!!!

If you have any original work, we’d love to feature it in our blog. Email us a short description of what you do, how you do it and a few pictures. We are only interested in original work.