A few weeks ago I was browsing through Pottery Barn ... they have such cute stuff but not so cute price tags! I like the boxwood plants they have ... but I've been noticing on blogs that crafters are just making these cute plants themselves.... AND they are a WHOLE bunch cheaper and so EASY!!! HEY... (I thought to myself)... I can do that too!!!
So off to Savers I went for some great pots... and I found these beauties for a couple dollars. So I ripped out the flowers...
and put in styrofoam. Hobby Lobby had the plants I wanted for half off and I had a gift card!!! Pretty cheap and easy so far!
But now you will notice that there aren't any pictures from this point to the finished product.... WHY you may ask?!?!? First I got blisters from cutting all the little pieces of plant off the stems... I had to get Mike to do most of it cuz I wasn't a quitter!!! This will work!!! THEN after poking all those litle pieces in I ran out of plant... WHAT?!? these are just little pots... So I left the half bald future beautiful way better than potery barn planters sitting on my counter for days til I could go back to Hobby Lobby. Luckily the plants were still half off and I still had some gift card to use.. then I ran home to finish the LITTLE project! BUT... the more I looked at the pathetic things...I thought they are going to be WAY too big for these little pots. So I ripped the ugly things apart cut the styrofoam in half and forced myself to finish this project or ELSE!!!! And to make matters worse we started referring to them as Chia Pets!!!
Whew.... Well... here's my finished plants... I like them... and they turned out fine after all that... but they are still way too big for the spots I had picked out for them ... So crafters beware!!! This was a NOT so fun craft!!!
My next project... to find perfect places for my overgrown Chia Pets!
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