Working on side projects is one of my favorite things to do! Recently, a lot of Little Free Libraries have been appearing in my neighborhood, and to celebrate their arrival, I created a 3D printed miniature of them. The files are free for everyone on Thingiverse, so if you have access to a 3D printer, you can easily create your own!
This week, according to my iphone
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This week has been really busy with prototyping new products for ICE Atlanta with Oscar Eastwood and putting the last finishing touches on our new items for the holidays. It was too busy to document everything that we worked on, but we a least got some snapshots of everything!
We were lucky to get access to a MakerBot this week to prototype some new pieces on. This week I prototyped a little little library (files coming to Thingiverse soon), and some marquee lights that light up with LEDs. We're also experimenting with some new planter colors just for the holiday season.
We love documenting what we're making, so follow us on Instagram to see more of what we're up to.
Wearable Planter on Instructables
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Good news! We're sharing all of our DIYs and tutorials at a new place online, Instructables. Instructables is an online community for makers who want to learn anything from how to hem pants to baking a cake to fixing their car. Don't worry, we'll still be publishing all of our DIYs and tutorials here. Instructables has something that a lone blog can't offer, a supportive and social community where discussions about how to make things better take place, and a larger audience for sharing knowledge.
Wearable Planter Fall Sale! Now through November 15!
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We're getting ready for the holiday season by making lots of new planters and preparing for ICE. To get ready for the holidays and to have space for our new items that will be coming out soon, we're clearing the shelves, and having a sale! We've added some planters to our sale page, and you can take an additional 15% off all orders with the code FALLLEAVES2014.
Fall flowers and herbs to wear with your planter
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The weather is finally cooling down here, and the chilly weather has me thinking of more fall flower choices to wear with our planters!
For the selections to go with this planter, we had a mix of blooms from our roof garden, a local flower market, and an inexpensive grocery store bouquet. This planter works well with picked flowers, so we chose some seasonal and fragrant blooms to pair with it.
Rosemary is an evergreen here in Georgia, and we were able to find it in the roof garden of the building our studio is in. If you're not able to find rosemary easily outside, its usually available as filler for bouquets at a florist, or even in the produce aisle of your grocery store. Plus, it has a great scent, so it's like wearing a little bit of fragrance!
The chamomile and the seeded eucalyptus were found from a florist close to our studio, Candler Park Flower Market, that carries loose flowers to build your own bouquet. They're selection changes seasonally and weekly, and we grabbed some of the blooms that they carried last week. The purple daisy came in a bunch with a larger bouquet from the grocery store, and we've seen some growing as wildflowers the last few weeks here in Atlanta.
Next week we'll be showing off some more seasonal picks to match our planters! If you have any suggestions, or would like to share what you're wearing in your planter, tweet us at @wearplants on twitter.
Wearable Planter with Oscar Eastwood at ICE Atlanta
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Exciting news! We'll be at the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Spectacular next month! We're joining forces with our friends Oscar Eastwood again for Indie Craft Experience. Our planters will be available there, as well as some making kits we are working on in collaboration with the other ladies of Oscar Eastwood.
Indie Craft Experience will be held November 22nd & 23rd at the Georgia Freight Depot. The Freight Depot is located in downtown Atlanta near the state capitol and Underground Atlanta. It is easily accessible by MARTA and by bike
We'll be updating this blog and our instagram with what we're making, so come back later to see a preview of what we'll have there!