Old Spoon Garden Art

Old silverware pieces make great garden markers or garden art for indoor plants.

Here's an easy DIY for your own thrift store finds.


Last summer, I found these pretties at the thrift store.

I think they charged me $1.00 for a the trio, two spoons and corer of some sort.

I didn't really know specifically what I was going to do with them, but I knew that I wanted to use them in the garden.

However, when I got them home, I tucked them into my craft closet and that was the end of that.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Then when March roared in with her cold and blustery winds and I focused on indoor plants to get my spring fix, I remembered my utensils and dug them out.

At first, I was going to buy a lettering kit, flatten the spoons out and stamp words like "chives" or "cilantro" on them.

Of course, I don't have and herb garden, so putting them into the ground next to the hostas would be lie.

And then there was the price of those stamping kits. Yikes. No thanks.


I was honestly just about the give up when literally tripped over a few boxes of scrapbooking supplies my sister had dropped off and a bag of these tiny satin roses fell out onto the floor.

And the wheels started turning.

I had just transplanted my mini rose bushes into pots so they could stretch their legs a little bit, while they waited for the warm weather to arrive and move into the garden.

The didn't have any flowers left and looked kind of boring.

Immediately, I thought, how cute would these old spoons look with a little rose embellishment to decorate their pots?


So I grabbed my hot glue gun and added a tiny pink rose to each spoon.

Mine tucked right into the top cut out, but it would work the same on a solid spoon.

They really looked very sweet and since I was using them on indoor plants, I didn't have to worry about them getting wet or deteriorating in the garden outside.


Now, I just happened to be decorating rose bush planters with my upcycled, rose adorned, garden art pieces, so in a sense, my spoons are in fact garden markers, as well.

I love when things work out that way.

If you like that idea, you can purchase these satin flowers in an array of colors and styles to mark your own indoor planters.

Or you can simply use them as a charming, colorful cottage style accessory to dress up your flowering or flowerless houseplants.


And considering my generally brown thumb, I figure this may be the only blooms I can keep around.

Consistently.

😉

How fabulous is that?

Happy Crafting, Friends!