Darby Smart: diy air plant clock

Air Plants & Clocks: diy your own air plant clock 

Last year I joined Darby Smart and was hooked. 

Air plants were all the range on their site for 2015 and I joined in. 

So, I am going to show you my favorite home accent I designed using craft supplies from Darby Smart. 

First off, Good Morning! 

I hope that you are enjoying the strangely "warm" weather 

we are having for February, I sure am! 

I got on to Darby Smart and had the hardest time with narrowing down my first project. I could easily loose track of time on that site! I picked out some supplies and they arrived before I knew it. 

DIY Home Accent for under $20.00

I picked out:

-wooden clock

-clock parts

-E-600 glue

-2 air plants

-white gravel

-plastic sheets

-2 embroidery hoops

I got right to work measuring out the layout of what I was picturing in my head. 

Inserted the clock parts to the wooden clock

Now the measurements. I use the embroidery loop to measure the level of the plastic.

I covered the smaller loop completely and the largerplac loop with a harsh angle 

placing the smaller loop on the wooden clock, than the larger loop with the angled plastic covering.

test out the layout & get it all figured out. This is where the lovely E-600 comes into play. Add a friendly amount of glue to the embriodery loops to secure the plastic. Than do the same to the wooden loops to secure to the clock and eacother. 

Allow this to dry while you load the laundry, put the kids to sleep, or run errands. Once it is all dry, you are good to add the rocks and air plant! 

Ta-Da! Here is your new air plant clock. 

I left the wooden natural but you can add your own designs, paint it, really whatever just be sure to leave enough room from your clock parts to the plastic so that your clock will work and not drag or catchy on the plastic. 

Air plant turnout...I kill all plants :) It is super hard to kill these. It is not like I took that as a challenge but let's just say air plant life is no longer in our home. You can learn all about how to care for an 

air plant in the product description and care listing on Darby Smart, or simply Google it :) 

You don't want that advice from me. 

Happy Monday! I hope this is good motivation for you on this lovely Monday. 

Later Loves.