Alice's Garden - Garden Art From Old Dishes
$20
2 Weeks
Easy
And it all started with that teapot! This little garden requires no watering and remains colorful in cold temperatures. Since I'm a dish hoarder I try to put them to good use.
The dishes are glued together using E6000 glue. (Let them sit a Long Time) The pipe is rubber plumbing pipe - it's so these flowers will droop like the real ones do.I glued that in too. Then wrapped it with electrical tape when I attached to the pipes outside.
I added some wires with beads coming out of the center. And I found a little birdy to glue on one.
The clock is the back of a plate (it was chipped anyway) I cut a strip of tin and glued it to the back then put that around the pipe coming out of the ground to hole it in the air.
Another clock here, a painted sugar shaker. With a cute little orphaned salt shaker off the top.
These have holes drilled in them. The middle is a lamp pole - with plastic pipe spacers inbetween the cups and teapot. The base is some concrete I used a 5 gallon bucked for the mold and some leaves on top of the wet concrete.
Birdy and bead detail
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How did you attach the plates to the bottles? E6000?
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Bobbi, you are so creative. Love the way you have things tipping and swaying. Thank you for the info on how to do it! Just adorable!
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