Plant Pot With a Fun Bathroom Theme

 Hello Readers. I love plants and wanted to make a fun planter/plant pot. This plant pot woman looks perfect in a bathroom. (The steam in a bathroom is also a great environment for some plants.) You can put this together with a few items from The Dollar Tree store. 

Grab your glue gun, some supplies and make a flower pot lady.

You will need some supplies. I got a small flower pot, some curlers, fake eye lashes, and googly eyes. Let me show you how I started. 

 

I also bought a small floral sponge. It is like piece of Styrofoam to hold flower stems. I wanted to use fake flowers because I was in a pink mood. You won't need this if you want to put a live plant with potting soil. I will talk more about that idea later.

 

I wedged my little sponge into the bottom of this pot. It fit into the bottom securely. You could also glue it in to the bottom of the pot if you need to. 

 

I stuck the stems of my flowers into the sponge to hold them in place. I kept adding flowers until the arrangement of flowers looked nice and full all around. 

 

The stems stuck in the sponge easily and stood up well. It was easy to make a visually pleasing arrangement. You can bend and direct the stems to get the flowers nice and full on all sides.

 

Next I glued my googly eyes in place. Some eyes like this have a sticky back but mine required some glue. I added a small blob of glue on the back and held the eyes in place while the glue set and cooled. 

 

I used this little round piece of wood as my nose. (I broke the little tree off.) You could also use a button or a cork. Use what you have or can find easily. Just add a spot of glue on the back and don't stress about it. This will be super cute when its all together. 

 

I also added some fake eye lashes. I chose the largest lashes I could find. It added a little glamour and fun. Maybe she is getting ready for a night on the town. 

 

I wanted to add something that looked like hair to my curlers. I had some shredded brown paper, it is used as packing material sometimes. You could also use ribbon or yarn that you might have on hand already. 

 

I wrapped the strands of "hair" around the curlers and clipped the curler closed.

 

I added some hot glue on one side of the curler. Be careful, it's really hot glue. 

 

I held the curler on the pot so it could cool down and adhere to the side of the pot. You don't need too many curlers, you might be able to grab some from your mom or your grandmother's bathroom. 

 

I added a piece of pipe cleaner as a red mouth. You could try to draw a mouth with a permanent marker or cut out a mouth from a piece of paper to achieve a different look. 

 

My lady was finished and she is cute! She is also a great place to put my glasses. I am always misplacing my glasses. Now I have a place to put them. 

 

She is right at home on the bathroom counter. 

 

This would also be great for a real plant. (This spider plant makes fun spiky hair.) You could just put potting soil and a little plant in the pot instead of fake flowers. I like both ideas. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Formal Dress to Fun Skirt

 Hello Readers. I had a beautiful dress that I got many months ago. It was poofy and lovely but I had to shorten and simplify it. I had so much extra fabric that I was able to make this skirt. 

Before and after. 

I cut the ruffle from the bottom of the dress. It took away the extra length from the dress and that extra was just waiting to be put to use. 

 

The dress had 2 layers of thick nylon lining. I did not like all that heavy weight so I removed one layer. It was a knit nylon, so I did not need to hem the cut edge, I just cut the fabric out of the dress.

 

I needed the lining to be the length of the ruffle that I cut off the dress. 

 

I had some elastic to make a waistband for this new skirt. 

 

I turned the waistband inside the skirt. 

 

I clipped the ruffle to the lining. The ruffle was a bit larger so I gathered it to fit the waistband. 

 

I sewed the ruffle to the skirt. I loved the embroidered flowers. Look at them, they're so pretty. This was the most difficult part, getting all the tulle under the sewing foot. 

 

I love how it turned out. It is great with this little sweater. 

 

I also thought it was fun with this yellow top. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.