Painted Potpourri: A Quest for the Perfect Colors
by
Cori Warner
I'm on a grey and gold kick. I see it everywhere, and a few months ago I redid my living room with gold and gray as the main colors. Now I'm bringing those colors into my dining room too, and I needed some filler for the hurricane centerpiece on my dining table. Apparently the potpourri companies haven't gotten the memo on this fabulous color combo, because I sure couldn't find any with grey and gold in it.
I chose some potpourri that had some light color in it, along with some shapes and textures I liked. The off white is perfect. The green, not so much. I decided to paint the pecan-looking pieces with Country Chic's Pebble Beach, and the large seed pod in the Fresh Mustard. Since these were fairly small, I decided to just dip them into the paint, rather than trying to paint them with a brush. This was a bit messy, but went pretty quickly.
Once everything was dried, I mixed the grey pieces into the other filler, and poured it into the hurricane. After placing the larger pieces around the edges, I dropped in my big, fat gold candle, and my hurricane centerpiece, with it's painted potpourri filler was all done!
It looks great on my dining room table!
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