sometimes i try out ideas which i build in my head… and somehow they don’t look how i wanted them to :)

anyhow this one didn’t go as planed but looks nice as well.

i wanted to make a bowl out of air dry clay and press a fern into the clay. well this did work, but i didn’t think of the fact, that once it was dry i would see the fern on the outside anymore. so if you want to try out this bowl, you might want to place your fern “print” on the inside of your bowl. :)

this is how you do it:

you need

press the fern onto the flattened clay

put something round onto the clay and cut it out

put your clay circle into the bowl and form a nice seam, let it dry for a day

you can smooth the seam with a nail file like i did here

finished, i use it for tiny objects i tend to lose

i just can’t get enough of fern. i think baby fern plants look like the home of tiny fairies, when the roll out the look so magical. even though it’s “just” a green plant i think it might be one of my favourites!

did you take a look at the we love handmade mag #2 already? if you didn’t you don’t know my little clay project. these succulents have a pretty new home at my place… how pan helped me to make those little clay pots and how you could make them yourself you can find out in the magazine on page  53

this is not only a great project for a wedding but for anyone else as well. i really like to work with clay, it’s so easy to make little things and you don’t have to burn in the oven. do you use clay? what else can be made out of it? any ideas?

A lovely friend from work brought me five of her little plants yesterday. Three tomato plants and two paprika plants. I’m not so much a green thumb person, although my grandparents are both gardeners. I can name most of the flowers that grow in the woods around Vienna but sadly when it comes to living with me they just give up… even my fern died a couple of month ago.

But this time everything is going to be different, i can feel it. So after i got up super early today and went for a swim with my sis, i planted the little ones into white planters and positioned them on the balcony. Not pretty enough for me, so i made little name tags too. I took some pictures and made a tutorial too. Have fun.

You’ll need: scissors, two wooden spoons, something to make little holes, twine, paper and stamps or a pencil.

1. put tiny holes into both of your wooden spoons.

2. stamp the names of your plants onto the paper and also make sure to get holes into the paper

3. use your twine to fix the name tags to your spoon

4. knot at the back and but your spoon tags into the planters