DIY: Large Painted Flowerpot

Terracotta Pot before painting

While spray painting 

Spray paint used

Final Product + Flower

Items needed: 

• Spray Paint
• Terracotta Pot
• Soil
• Plant/Flower

How to:

-This is actually an incredibly easy project. Go to your local dollar store and find the flower pot, bottom, and soil. Then you should be able to find the paint at Walmart, and you can get all kinds of flowers from your local grocery store(I got mine from Sobeys). 

-Once you have all of your items, go outside (don't do this inside unless the area is well ventilated), then  follow the instructions on the spray can, make sure you do thin coats, if you get too close or spray too much, the paint will start dripping and that's no good. 

-Once the pot is dry get the soil and put some in the bottom. Get your flower and take it out of the pot-like thing its in. With the smaller flower I broke off as much of the soil it was already in as I could so it would have lots of new soil, but since this was such a large pot I just stuck it in the middle. Then fill in the soil around the plant until its even will the top and its as high as you want it to be. 

That should be it!

Good luck! This one is fun!

DIY Project- Decorative Painted Vases Part 1

Supplies: Different sized vases from Dollarama or any other place you can find them, dishwasher safe PermEnamel paint in whatever color you prefer, PermEnamel Surface Conditioner from Michaels, paper towels, paint brush and a mixing bowl.

Directions:

1. Clean the vases with hot, soapy water.

2. When they are completely dry, pour some surface conditioner in and cover the inside of the vase. Pour out the excess and let the vase dry. (This step is very important.. I didn't do it the first time, and it turned out horribly. It took more then 2 days for the paint to dry... try and error I suppose.)

3. Pour the colour of paint you want inside the vase.

4. Paint the inside of the glass using the paint brush to cover the inside surface.

5. Once the vase is painted, lay it on a paper towel to let the thick paint drip off. A lot of paint comes off, so the longer you keep it there the thinner the coat will be.

6. Turn the vase back over and touch up the drips inside. Every fifteen minutes you can even out the thickness on the bottom of the vase as the paint will start to collect.

7. Let these dry over night and in the morning you should have a wonderful colourful vase.

(I'll add an after photo afterwards the one above is "in process")