Well it's Teacher Appreciation Week...THIS WEEK...Briggs and I decided to go the hand-made route again. Maybe it's just me, but I think people appreciate things that much more when they are hand-made. Sidenote..much more cost efficient too :)
The items below include:
- Lavendar plant (or your plant of choice)
- terracota pot
- saucer for the pot
- paint
- chalkboard spray paint
- painters tape
- newspaper
- permanent marker
I started by laying down the newspaper so I wouldn't make a mess. Taped the rim of the pot with the painters tape and got to spraying. I flipped the pots upside down and it was much easier to sprayl. I did about three layers to make sure the pot was covered completely.
And here is what they both look like painted (with the tape still on)...
And then I got so into my project that I forgot to take pics for the rest of the project...oops. Guess it doesn't help that my 11 month old was in the baby pool..see below :)
So anyway, after my multi-tasking and complete FAIL at documenting it all...here is my finished product.
As you can guess...the chalkboard paint is to write on with...CHALK. I tried it out and works great. You can wipe off with a paper towel, but a wet paper towel works best.
We wrote..."Thank you for helping me grow" on their pots. I also went a little out of the box and painted the saucer a fun turquoise blue.
The top of the pot is painted yellow (all I did was pull the tape off after I spray painted the pot). Once it dried I used a permanent marker and drew the lines and numbers on the yellow. I didn't use a ruler or anything, just eye-balled it.
You could use this gift in many ways and you don't have to paint the rim as a ruler, it could be just a different color or...get creative. Now they have a cute pot with an herb they can use in lots of different ways.
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