Friday, May 29, 2009

New plant




I decided to make a large snake plant (or mother-in-law's tongue) for the living room corner. My husband and I received a single blade start for a wedding gift nearly 27 years ago and it has grown into a monster over the years. It's broken through three pots and has flowered several times. I never knew that they produce flowers when they become root bound. Now I know! :-) Anyway, this is the second one of these I've made and I really like how it turned out.

5 comments:

  1. Very cool! It looks great in the corner too!

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  2. Hi De, Your plants look great! Well done!
    Mercedes

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  3. It looks really good De. Did you make it out of masking tape? I love the paint job you did, it looks so realistic.

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  4. Thank you both! Doreen, I used coffee filters for this one. I painted a different shade of green on each side. I edged the leaves with a pale yellow and added the horizontal pattern with a dark green glaze. The first one I made, several years ago, was with masking tape. I think the coffee filters look more natural and in scale.

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