These "cookies" add color to your backyard as well as food for
birds. To make this project: Coat peanut butter on the fronts
and backs of seasonal wooden cutouts bought from a crafts store.
Press dried cranberries and seeds, such as niger, sunflowers and
mixed birdseed, into the peanut butter and hang. Tie ears of
miniature corn end-to-end to form a small triangle, using one
ear each of red, yellow and blue-black. Raffia ties them to
shepherd's hooks or pine trees. Serve fresh water from a wreath-
adorned heated birdbath. To make this project: Place an electric
heated birdbath pan inside the basin of your existing birdbath
and run a heavy-duty exterior extension cord to an outlet. Make
or buy a wire-frame wreath of mixed greens to encircle the top
edge. The wreath will probably be heavy enough to perch there
unaided, but you can use wire to secure it. Natural ornaments
such as tan wheat and oat sprigs, red rose hips and blue juniper
berries add texture and color plus can be eaten by birds. Change
the water eve