Designed
by Deborah Spofford
Welcome guests to your home with this
inviting display of garden items.
Place this chair, bird bath, and sunflower
garden next to your front door.
Change the flowers and accessories for each season.
Moss
Chair Planter
Supplies
Moss
covered chair
Garden
hat
Garden
gloves
Small
child’s garden trowel
Wire
cutters; knife; spoon
Flowering
plant and extra potting soil
Instructions
1.
Cut an eight inch hole in the seat of the chair and
remove the moss and foam. Use
a spoon to scoop out the foam. Cut
or remove floral pins that are in the foam.
2.
Place the flowering plant in the hole and fill with
potting soil. Cover dirt with
sheet moss. Use floral pins to
secure the moss.
3.
Hang a garden hat over the back of the chair. Place the garden gloves and trowel on the
seat of the chair next to the plant.
Supplies
Distressed
wooden drawer ( 4” x 9 ˝”)
Floral
foam block
Seven
tall silk sunflowers
Five
silk grass sprigs
Instructions
1.
Cut floral foam to fit snuggly inside the drawer.
2.
Cut sunflower stems different lengths and arrange
in the drawer. Place taller flowers
in the back and shorter flowers in the front and sides.
3.
Place moss around flower stems to cover the floral
foam. Secure the moss with floral
pins.
4.
Poke grass sprigs through the moss and into the foam. Arrange
the sprigs around the bottom on the sunflower stems.
Flower Pot Bird
Supplies
Terra
Cotta flower pot: six inches tall
Terra
Cotta flower pot saucer: eight inches
Sea
sponge
Four
inch Styrofoam ball
Ceramcoat™ acrylic paint: antique gold,
spice brown,
English yew green, dark chocolate
Twig
wreath: ten inches wide
Paper
plate
Hot
glue gun
Fresh
flowers or candle or rocks
Instructions
1.
Antique the flower pot and saucer with acrylic paint. Dampen
the sponge with water and blend all the paint colors together on paper
plate. Pounce and wipe the sponge over the pot and
saucer. Let dry.
2.
Turn the flower pot upside down. Slide the wreath over the pot. The wreath should fit snugly at the bottom
of the pot. Hot glue the saucer onto the pot to make the bird bath.
3.
Fill the saucer with moss. Cover the Styrofoam ball with moss. Use floral pins to secure the moss to the
ball. Place the ball in the top
of the bird bath.
4.
Place fresh flowers, a candle, or rocks in the bird
bath next to the moss ball.
