Jewelry and Accessories for Green Thumbs
To celebrate the first week of spring, we made a downloadable desktop for you to dress up your desktop! To make the image we collected flowers from around our neighborhood and photographed them to share with you! To download, just click the image below and you'll be taken to the downloadable image. Simply click on the image and save!
Photo credit: Colleen Jordan | Mac Desktop Image: GRAPHICTwister
We're getting through the last few grey days of winter, and I've started bringing in more flowers to take photos with and to brighten up the studio and house before more flowers bloom outside. I've had a few requests lately about how to make cut flowers last longer, and the trick that I use is really simple.
We made these bouquets with stock and wax flowers.
To make my flowers last as long as possible, I cut the end of the stems every two or three days to keep the stems from drying out. I cut at least 1/2" off of each stem which allows the water vessels to keep carrying water up to the flower. Each time I cut the stems, I make sure they have a fresh change of water, and I add a little bit of sugar and apple cider vinegar to the water, about 2 tbsp of each to a quart of water. The vinegar keeps bacteria and mold from growing in the water, and the sugar provides nourishment for plant. Each time you change the water, remove any foliage below the water line and make sure the ends of each stems is covered by at least 1" of water.
Doing this, I can make most of my store-bought flowers last a little more than 2 weeks before they need to be thrown out. This of course isn't the only way to make sure your flowers last as long as possible, but it is what I have found works best for me. Do you have another way of keeping flowers fresh for longer that you like to use?
Over the last few weeks we've had access to a MakerBot to prototype some new pieces. While we wait for the final pieces to arrive from our 3D printer, we'd like to give you a small preview of what is coming for this spring.
We're working on a lot of new planter necklaces and pins as well as bike planters. If you want to see more of what we're working on, visit our instagram where we'll be posting previews all week!
Today we wrote a new DIY guide for you! If you like marquee signs, and want to try an easy 3D printing project, we created a tutorial on Instructables for you to make your own 3D printed light-up marquee sign!
This tutorial can easily adapt to your skill level with 3D printing and electronics. If you're a beginner, you can follow the directions to create the sign and learn some new skills. If you already know what you're doing, we show you the basics of this project and give you to improvise to make your sign more complex!
To learn what to do, visit our how-to on Instructables. There are pictures accompanying each step to show you what to do.
Have fun making!
Today at 4pm EST we'll be doing a giveaway with some other talented maker businesses on Instagram. Check out our instagram account this afternoon to see how to enter. We'll be giving away a planter lapel pin and a bag of seed bombs (or a $10 gift card to our store in place of the seed bombs if your shipping address is outside of the US) to the winner. Details will be posted at 4pm this afternoon, and you can enter the contest then.
The contest will run for 48 hours, and we'll choose the winner at random. We'll notify the winner On February 14 through instagram.
To enter, just go to our instagram account and see how to enter there!
Spring is nearing, and while winter is showing us the last of its cold and rainy colors, we’re looking forward to warmer and greener days ahead! Last week here in Georgia groundhog General Beauregard Lee promised us six more weeks until spring, and we’re anxiously awaiting the return of warm weather. To show off our favorite flowers we’re using one of our new necklaces and this week we’re in love with rice flowers, wax flowers, and stonecrop to pair with it.
Rice flowers are usually used as a filler flower for large bouquets, but we’re in love with their delicate little flowers and light scent. Wax flowers are an all-time favorite here because of their small petals and we love pairing them with our planters when we can find them at Candler Park Flower Mart. Corsican Stonecrop is a type of succulent called sedum that we also like to use, and you can plant clippings of them in your wearable planter for longer lasting greenery.
We found our rice and wax flowers at our local flower shop, Candler Park Flower Mart. The stonecrop we found in the ground coverings section of Pike Nursery. If you’re looking for similar plants, try checking out your local small florist or nursery to see what they have!
