Plant Pots Prettiness *3*

Gardening has become a newfound hobby of mine this summer, sort of to the point of obsession actually LOL. I water my plants regularly, check up on them all the time, keep a journal about their daily growth, draw them, and even decorate the pots that they reside in! That brings me to this post, which features a few of the well decorated pots in my plants collection. The painted pots were done by me and my brother earlier in the summer. The one with the coral background and intricate pattern was done by myself, the red and

green one by my brother. We simply purchased a couple of ready to paint pots in the crafts section of Target and painted them together that evening. It was during a later visit from my brother that I thought hey,..., why not start growing some seeds in them? I wasn't using the pots for much else, and they turned out to be the best starter pots for sproutlings. I scattered a bunch of English daisy seeds throughout the soil of my pot, while my brother carefully placed a few red sunflower seeds in his. My daisies are growing a plenty, and as you can see by the sheer size of them my brother's flowers are growing at an incredibly fast rate. They sprouted not too long after he planted them. I'm going to have to transfer his sunflowers

to a bigger pot very soon, one which I plan on painting as well. I actually already sketched the design for that pot painting last night LOL. The third plant in the green pot is a celery that I have been growing since early summer. I am amazed by how many stalks it sprouts from the center. I'm curious to see how many it will end up growing. Right now I believe that it has 13 stalks with two more on the way. I can't wait to start using some of the celery leaves for some god awesome tempura. Mmmmmm *C* But yeah onto more crafty matters, you can see that the celery's pot is also well decorated. I chose to hot glue a bunch of beads onto the plastic pot. Although the plastic beads were quite cheap coming in bead bins from Michael's and Walmart, I think that the combination of colors is quite elegant and once again comes to show how you can make very nice looking crafts without spending much money. Awesome!!! ;D