Broken doorknobs, old pallets of wood and jagged pieces of scrap metal might sound like little more than junk, but for this Griffith woman, they are all the pieces needed to create first-class accommodation for local birds.
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For the past few years, Peta Salton has been turning trash into treasure. Collecting old bits of wood and metal to create stunningly unique birdhouses.
The creations began as just a hobby, but as more people saw what Mrs Salton was creating, interest grew rapidly.
"It started off as my de-stress, but people just kept asking if they could buy them so it just suddenly became a business," Mrs Salton said.
Years later, Mrs Salton has created and sold hundreds of the houses - and it doesn't look like demand is going to slow any time soon.
I think it's just in my blood ... I love rust and I love junk
- Peta Salton
Her last lot of 30 houses took her about a week to make. But after listing them online, it only took six hours before they were all sold, with customers from as far as WA and Tasmania getting in on the action.
"I think people really like them because they are different, they're unique," she said.
"Each set of birdhouses is different to the last, it all depends on what kind of stuff I've got lying around to make them with."
When she's not hard at work in the shed, Mrs Salton is exploring Griffith, trawling the internet, or checking in on friends - all in the hopes of finding the next great trinket to turn into a birdhouse's centrepiece.
Century-old Russian cutlery, tin from an old Goolgowi pub and door handles from the home of Griffith's first mayor are just some of the odds and ends which have ended up on the houses.
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Mrs Salton says she has been helped by an innate ability to see the beauty in unwanted items.
"I think it's just in my blood," she laughed. "I love rust and I love junk."
"People are always like 'aw I don't want to throw all of this stuff out Peta can you come and pick it up?"
"And then I just say 'yep yep yep'."
Mrs Salton will be selling some of her latest birdhouses at the Riverina Field Days festival this weekend.
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