Homemade Flower Box

I hope you had a fun filled weekend. I had an awesome weekend. I became an Aunt again for the 16th time!!! My sister that I told you about in this POST had her baby boy!! He is so Precious! I am so happy for my sister and brother in law! I love them so much!
Here is a picture of me and my new nephew:

Now onto today's craft....

My sweet hubby gave me a late birthday present a few weeks ago. He got me my very own mini power drill!!! I have never really used one in my life let alone built anything using one. I definitely needed some coaching from him on how to use it. He went and grabbed some scrap wood in the garage and told me that I was going to build a box. I thought he was crazy, but it seemed easy enough and I really needed to learn what to do. It might seem simple to use one, but there really is a trick to using it!! Here are a couple of pictures of that night:

***Please do not mind me...I am in my comfy clothes and don't look very pretty!!!***

Oh and please don't mind my CHEESY grin...I am just really excited!! Here's me with my new mini power drill.

Hard at work!!

All finished!

My husband was just going to put this back in the garage once I got enough practice putting screws in, but I just couldn't let that happen. This was the first thing I had made using my new power tool and I wanted to display it proudly!!!! So I got thinking and decided it would be the perfect flower box!

Since it was scrap wood I really needed to paint it all one color so I got the spray paint out and got painting. I painted the whole thing white so it would match!!

I didn't want to leave it stark white. I wanted it to look old and warn. Kind of vintage looking! So I sanded down the edges and stained the whole thing Early American color.

(This is just the picture of the sanded edges)

When the stained dried I put styrofoam inside and added cream flowers with some leaves. 

Here is what it looks like:

It's home is on my parents living room table:

I am so glad I decided I needed to display my hard work of building the box!!! I LOVE the way it turned out!! Perfect!!!

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DIY Flower Plant

A couple of months ago we bought some nightstands for our bedroom. We have been married 4 1/2 years and never had nightstands. I am loving them!! 

I love how it has the drawer and the big open space at the bottom. I apologize because I got lazy and just used the picture my hubby sent me when he bought them!

We are living with my parents while my hubby is going to school so our computer is in our bedroom. We needed a place to put the printer since we moved things around to get the nightstands in. So we put it on one of the nightstands. Dave said to me, "I will let you buy a plant to put by it to kind of hide it." I was so excited about that. After I got thinking about it I said to myself, "Hello, why don't you just make your own. This way it will match the colors in our room and be just what you want!" Good thinking Jill!! So that's what I did. 

What You Will Need:

-Some type of container to put it all in

-Styrofoam blocks

-Flowers and greenery to add in

-Moss

How To Make It:

This is seriously so simple and easy to make! I think I will be making lots of flowered plants for my house when I have one!!

Cut up the styrofoam blocks to fit in your container. I know you just love how I put mine in it!!

Then I arranged my flowers and greenery in it! This was the hardest part. Just getting it the perfect height  and getting the proportions  right. I had to cut most of the stems down to get the right height. 

Once I got it the way I wanted it I put the moss in between all the flowers to hide the styrofoam. 

That's it!! Now your are done and have a super cute flowered plant that you did yourself!!

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