Plastic Pot Paint Job

Pretty in Pink:

is the name I gave this 21 inch plastic gem of a flower pot. Bought the pot, which was bland, neutral beige-y color at Dollar General.  Two shades of pink acrylic paint, with help from a natural sea sponge transformed the pot. I admit I fought the feelin' to apply a third color. Glad I  stuck with the two. :)

The pot went to my job, so a co-worker could take a gander at it.   A complete stranger thought  since I must have paid a pretty penny, I brought the pot inside because I didn't want to left in the car! People wanted to know which store the pot came from. Others couldn't believe the pot was plastic. Amazed, dazed and confused I was, from the words about plastic pot. 

My head was so in the clouds, I was about to grab a sea sponge and and transform every flower pot in a 21 mile radius!  :)

All good! 

Terra Cotta Tune Up

I volunteer for a chum's writers' conference and we had our last meeting before the conference (which is the 13th). I'd made mention to my chum how I do pots and would she be interested to use them in some kind of way. She liked the idea and said she would send me her favorite quote. We would just go from there...

Above is the before and after terra cotta pot. I do usually treat the inside of my pots with Thompson's Sealant. This time tho, since the pot was just for demonstration, I didn't. What I did use:

4 inch terra cotta pot
White Tissue Paper (99 cents from Dollar General) for quote
Folk Art Perfect Purple Acrylic Paint
Folk Art Wicker White Acrylic Paint
Delta Ceramcoat Sparkle Glaze
Mod Podge SPARKLE (I am LOVIN' this stuff! Me. Glue. Who knew?)

My chum liked the pot so much, she wants 20 of them--in different colors! She asked, "Can you do 20 by next week?" Of course, I can I told her, wondering all the while how I would stagger the entire process. By next Saturday, I will have 20 pots, in four different colors.

Can't wait to see how the pots turn out...
God IS so good.
Stay tuned.

Terra Cotta Turndown...

Well, I did branch out a bit more with my terra cotta pots. Yup. Today was the last day for Johnnie, a co-worker who retired. Wanted to give her something that would remind her of me. So why not a pot with a plant in it? *****So had another blue pot, like I showed in previous post. Tried to make it alittle bit better. Which meant me learnin' how to hang with LESS Mod Podge on me and the pot. The philodendron went in and I thought it's looks OK. The pot didn't quite make me want to beg Neiman-Marcus to put me in that infamous Christmas catalog of theirs. However s'OK.*****Johnnie seemed touched, eventho the plant looked a little 'lived' in. I'll be honest, the cats had munched some of the leaves. I didn't realize how bad, until I cut some of the worst ones away. Johnnie did laugh at that. She thought the pot was 'cute'.*****I watched Johnnie's reaction. It wasn't "OMG, it's gorgeous". It was more like "Yea. OK. It's cute." No exaggeration. See, when Dodger, another co-worker gave Johnnie a darling apron he'd embroidered, Johnnie couldn't stop her gush of Dodger is so talented and should be in business and how wonderful the apron was. We both could be Johnnie's kids. I felt I came home with the C, while Dodger had the A. I looked at my little pitiful flower pot and ....*sighed******So tonight, I've thought what I could have done different? Granted, Johnnie was not a cat person--yet said, she would always remember who gave the pot to her. So maybe I should have done the pot in something different--like what SHE liked. *****In my haste, I want folks to like my pots. I want feedback to improve, that I guess I forgot it was about Johnny. She likes jams. I could have done jam labels or somesuch. Next time...*****Anyway, once I got home, I studied my test pots and pictures. Also even tho cat was on it --something is still missing...Oh well. The positive is I've lost some of my vulnerability in showing my pots. They've got to be better.
*****ALOT better so I can maybe say "OMG!" as Neiman-Marcus hands me a check for the pots they purchased!
Not there----yet. Stay tuned.