DIY and Crafts — plants

After seeing my friend Tara make these super gorgeous marbled nail polish planters. I just had to try my hand at creating a similar look. I’ve tried nail polish marbling before, but I could never make it look as good as Tara did. So instead, I went with my old standby of multi surface craft paint and liquid starch and the planters came out so super cute and colorful. Now I am hooked and want to make all the marbled planters! Below I am sharing my tips on how to make marbled planters so that you can get in on...

Did you know that you can easily give a new look to your plants without having to repot them? You don’t have to switch up planters to get a new look, all you need is a sheet of wrapping paper and some tape! To help launch a few new wrapping paper patterns in my shop, I created a few DIY paper planter covers using a few of my favorite patterns. Just look how cute the plants look decked out in the paper planter covers! The Details While I don’t have the full folding tutorial here with images, you basically just follow...

You all know I love a good 80’s early 90’s inspired project, and my love for my Glowforge runs deep. It was only natural then that I would use my Glowforge to create another 80’s themed project (remember the first one I made?). This past weekend I hit the motherload of pretty indoor plants at a local nursery and purchased a few new indoor plants for my new studio. After bringing them home I realized I needed a few larger plants for them and then I had the idea to make a fun DIY 80’s inspired geometric plant stand for one...

File this under another easy way to add color to a store bought planter. As I mentioned before, I love planters and plants and bringing them into my home, but I always want to customize the planters I find at the store. Farmhouse style is pretty and all, but really not my cup of tea when it comes to decorating my own home. So I always find that a little imagination helps transform any planter into something more colorful and just my style. This DIY colorful hanging bowl planter was originally black and galvanized steel, but with just a coat...

My kids love my Glowforge almost as much as I do and are always asking to laser cut stuff on it. In the last few weeks I have made two Fortnite weapons, a Mario piranha plant, and a monstera leaf necklace from laser cut and engraved wood on my Glowforge laser cutter. After cutting my daughter’s monstera leaf necklace, I realized that the monstera leaf would make a super cute coaster too. So I scaled up the design and cut out 4 leaves from a piece of basswood to make these DIY gradient monstera leaf coasters! While they looked super cute as plain wood,...