FLOWER POT DECOR

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Decorating a flower pot with your own hands is not only interesting, but also a useful activity, which will save money and the interior will come to life a little. And just to make a beautiful and unique thing for the home is always nice. I love Russian motifs, so the decor of my flower pot echoes the style of the Khokhloma pattern.

For work, you need the following materials:
• ready-made simple flower pot or plastic bucket from under the food product;
• burlap or dense linen;
• braid;
• clay for modeling;
• plasticine;
• gouache paints;
• watermelon seeds, spikelets and other natural material for decoration;
• thin wire;
• awl;
• needle with thread;
• other office supplies.

I used an ordinary plastic mayonnaise bucket as a flower pot. Where the bucket closes with a lid, there is a protruding part (rim). In it with an awl you need to make several holes. At the same time, we will make drainage holes in the bottom. If the pot will be used under the topiary, then the bottom does not need to be holed up.

Now we cut a rectangle from burlap (linen or other fabric). It should be of such a size that it completely fits the pot plus a small margin on all four sides. We bend or hem the edges so that they do not scrub, and tightly tighten the pot with a cloth. We sew at the junction. If a flower pot is decorated for a houseplant, which will naturally be watered, then the fabric should wrap the container only from the outside. Therefore, I bent the edges under the fabric. For a topiary or other decorative composition, on the contrary, it is better to close the cloth and the bottom of the pot with a cloth and bend the fabric slightly inward from above.

To keep the fabric steady and not move out, we fasten it from above with a thin wire. The wire must be threaded into those holes that were made earlier in the rim of the bucket.

The foundation is ready. Sew on top and bottom braid. Under the lower braid and on the inside of the fabric, I sewed a strip of cellophane so that the bottom of the fabric would not get wet when watering the flower.

Now you can do the decoration directly. The decor does not exactly copy the Khokhloma pattern, but will be similar to it. Therefore, for decoration, I made sunflowers, wild strawberries, and used natural material. The colors are also Khokhloma - red, yellow, brown. We make sunflowers from clay for modeling. They will be of different sizes and shapes - small, large, turned "to the sun." We attach large sunflowers to the pot with wire, making holes with an awl, and plant small ones on super-glue. Coloring with gouache.

From dry watermelon seeds we make flowers, the middle of the flowers - from plasticine.

We also mold strawberries from clay, the stalk from green plasticine, and small white flowers from paper. Coloring.

It remains only to glue the leaves of clay.

If the size of the pot allows, then it can be decorated with small, dry flowers, ears of corn and everything that looks appropriate. At the same time, mask the side seam in this way. For durability, decorations should be varnished. I used the lid from the bucket as a pallet, cleaning it from the label. And the flower really liked to grow in such a beautiful pot.