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DIY Air Plant Terrarium to Brighten Your Office Desk
Stuck in the summer doldrums? It’s that time of year when the days stretch long (yes!) but the sweltering heat keeps us indoors during the mid-day hours. If you work full-time like me, you can’t go outside anyway. Thank goodness for a/c. If you’re looking for a quick pick-me-up to make your desk more inviting, try bringing a little low-maintenance life to it with a diy air plant terrarium for your desk. DIY Air Plant Terrarium Materials Glass Terrarium Small River Rocks (or seashells!) Air Plant Twine DIY Air Plant Terrarium Directions This air plant terrarium is so easy to assemble. Clean your glass terrarium of dirt and fingerprints. Add…
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DIY Macrame Hanging Planter
Ready for a little spring cleaning? While you’re sprucing up your space to make room for a bit of fresh air, add a cute DIY macrame hanging planter in a window corner this year! Fancy knots, clean white edges, and fresh succulents are a welcome sight in the spring sunlight. I love the way this looks in our breakfast nook in the morning. Plus, this macrame planter only takes about 30 minutes to make from start to finish. DIY Macrame Hanging Planter Materials 1 Roll of 100′ 3/16″ Cotton Rope Potted plant with no hole in the bottom (or you have to deal with quite a mess later) Scissors DIY…
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March Mood Board: Live a Little
Is it Spring yet? I’m so ready for the second half of March. The winter space between December and early spring is so full of waiting. For longer days, warmer air, less… sticks everywhere. We don’t get winter in Houston so much as everything turns to sticks. But that’s changing. It’s not dark when I leave the office anymore, which is so energizing. Is anyone else ready to get outside again? I started my yearly herb garden seeds. This year it’s all about edible flowers. There’s something almost savage about eating flowers, like it’s taboo. Flowers are meant to be looked at, not chewed. Their flavor is often unexpected. While…
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How to Grow Mint from Cuttings
Have you ever wondered how to grow mint from cuttings? It’s pretty easy, and so rewarding. Fresh herbs growing in the kitchen windowsill bring such a warm, airy feeling to the room. Not to mention, it’s so fun to pick a fresh herb when you’re cooking. Every spring I like to spruce up my herb garden with the season, and this year I decided to take a few things inside. When the weather really heats up midsummer, the delicate herb plants outside completely fry – even in the shade. Many herbs like basil are annuals, so it’s inevitable that they will flower and go to seed. But some herbs like…
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DIY Succulent Terrarium
The weather is almost warm enough outside to start gardening. In the meantime, if your green thumb feels itchy make a fun diy succulent terrarium for your desk or kitchen windowsill. Since the beach is my favorite place to spend the day, this succulent terrarium diy has a beachy vibe to it. If you can’t bring yourself to the beach every day, bring the beach to you. The gardening market has so many unique glass containers perfect for terrariums these days – diamond shapes, buoyantly hanging bulbs, concrete-floored fishbowls. The whatever-hedrons are my favorite, those weirdly multi-sided pointy glass boxes with metal frames. My terrarium is in a ball jar,…
