Deck Plant

So, I blogged on our newly stained deck HERE.  I love the way it came out.  I wanted to get some nice flowers for the deck but just have not done it.  At this point I figured that I would just wait until next year and get some nice pots at Costco.  I did want something out there as I thought it was too bare.

I have been redoing our Playroom and I will post on that later, but while doing that I have made several trips to Ikea.  I love the different things that they have there for every room in the house.  I decided to get a fake plant for the the deck this year because I always forget to water and do not want to pay for something that will end up dead in a week!

I love how simple this is but adds a little something.  The one thing that was bothering me is that it would not sit in the middle of the table because of the umbrella.  I got to thinking, hmmmmm….how can I make this work.

Here is what I came up with: I used THIS pot from Ikea.

I know, not the best looking right? I did not have the right tools to cut metal so I used what I had.  First, I scored the metal with a razor.  That did not work that well, but it gave me something to work with.  The I got a hammer and a nail and started hammering wholes around the circle and took pliers and worked my way around peeling the metal off.  I then took masking tape and taped around it so the metal was not sharp and would not scratch the umbrella.

I then used THIS plant and pulled it apart.

 

Here is what the pot looks like without anything in it.

Once I pulled the plant apart, I knew that I was going to need something at the bottom of the pot so that the plant will stick out the top.  I did not have time to go get anything so this is what I did.

I just stuffed a couple paper towels in there!

Then I added the plant stems and here is the end result.

 

Before;

 

After:

A lot of the ideas that I come up with for things that I do around our home I find on blogs or in magazines.  I have to say that this is one that I came up with on my own and I love the way that it came out!