Grimston woman Julie Smart makes toadstool out of cable drum

Julie Smart from Grimston, near King's Lynn, was given the wooden spool by a friend.

She spent around £30 on paint and materials to decorate it with - including fairies and mini toadstools - before placing it in the garden of her home.

Julie Smart starts work on turning her cable spool into a toadstool (Image: Julie Smart)

Julie Smart's finished toadstool (Image: Julie Smart) "It’s amazing what you can do with a big old cable reel," she said.

"I painted it and added autumn fruits, acorns, fungi, fur cones, grass and other decorations and created a little path leading to the fairy door and transformed it into a fairy tale toadstool.

"I’m a wildlife photographer so I was looking forward to seeing the wildlife playing around on it."

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A squirrel feeds on the top of the toadstool (Image: Julie Smart)

Estate agent Mrs Smart did not have to wait long.

Squirrels and birds began feeding on the top of the drum within days of it being completed.

Now she has also discovered bank voles have burrowed underneath to reach seeds other animals drop, which fall through the spool to the ground.