Flower power - Terrarium update

Today I'd like to give you a small update on my plant terrariums (you can read the original post here). The big fern bowl looks just like it before so I think there's no need for new photos. Just to remind you (old photo):

However, a few other terrariums appeared :) I wanted to achieve something like this:

cyclamen under a cloche

And I have this:

mini orchid in full bloom, the day I bought it

shedding blossom

After some time a new bud appeared :)

and my mini orchid is blooming again

There's no denying, an orchid closed in glass looks beautiful :) I watered mine only once - just after putting it inside the container.

I put it still in its pot which I covered with dried moss.

Here's the very first orchid that is going to bloom again after it's lost blossom completely. I never know where to cut the stalk so once the orchid loses its flowers it stays that way until I have to get rid of it (usually because of yellow leaves or other disease). So this small guy is a really nice surprise :)

Here's what it looked like when I bought it

And here is my cyclamen plant in a terrarium. Unfortunately I didn't have a proper camera at the time and now the plant doesn't have flowers and stays in a cool dark place. 

That's all for today so thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a great week! :)

Garden leftovers ;)

Hello again ;) Today, just like in the title, I'd like to show you what I did with my "garden leftovers" so to say. I just went through the garden cutting whatever came on hand and then put it all together to make a bouquet or two. I ended up with something like this:

Maybe it's not exactly breathtaking but it does cheer up the room. Actually, it's my first year with flowers growing in the garden. Before that, there was just a lot of green stuff (trees and shrubs, I mean), something just possessed me and I started to plant flowers all over the place:P What you see here is my first harvest  ;)

While I'm at it, I'd like to show you my new purchase: some kind of mercury glass urn that I use as a vase. The only problem is I didn't predict the paint is not waterproof  :/ When I threw the flowers out I noticed quite a lot of the silver disappeared, mostly from the bottom. At least it doesn't stand out that much. Now if I want to put a bouquet in it, I put a jar inside the urn.

See the lines on the sides? I didn't notice them then but the flower stems stripped the paint off :/

 

Here are some more photos of my very first bouquet (taken with my mobile phone, the camera had a major glitch):

And here's the urn's cover :)

I used all the little flowers that were too small for the big bouquet to make a cute posy  :)

I'll soon write an update post about my plant terrariums (I've been putting into terrariums anything that comes withing my reach lately :P)

mini orchid under a cloche

Take care and have a great week! :)

Artichoke is it?

I seriously don't know why but the word 'artichoke' always makes me smile. Anyway, I'm writing about artichokes because I've just finished making something that kind of resembles the vegetable (or fruit?). 

So? An artichoke? Not an artichoke? ;) Maybe you can guess what it's made of? Someone actually told me it could be artificial nails :P  But no, they are just plastic spoons. I broke off the handles and glued the spoons at the top of the jar with my glue gun.

And then glued row after row each one overlaping the one above. 

As you can see, my speckled fawn was again very helpful - he used his behind to hold the freshly glued spoons in place ;P  

You can easily imagine how the shop assistants looked at me when I wanted to buy over 100 plastic spoons... and in autumn! :P I suppose a few more spoons at the bottom would be good but there are no more left in the neighbourhood ;) 

I was thinking about spray painting it, gold maybe? It would look great for Christmas. 

This time it's not my idea. I found this cute artichoke on craftberrybush - I really recommend this blog ;)

Have a great weekend ;)

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