Upcycled Toy Planter - Extra Large Silver And Gold Polka Dot Hippo With Air Plant
This hippo came in a large lot of used toys I picked up last month, and after unloading and sorting through the toys, I promptly forgot about it and accidentally left it on a shelf in our workroom. Earlier this week, while searching for drill bits, I looked up and there was the hippo, staring at me with its mouth wide open and begging to be refinished. How could I say no to a greeting like that? As soon as the first coat of silver went on, there was no looking back :) This air plant is incredibly easy to care for. It doesn't require soil, so it's simply placed in the planter but can be removed and changed out at any time. Tillandsia absorb water through their leaves, so it just needs to be run under the faucet or dunked in a glass of water once a week and put near bright filtered light. I'll include a care sheet with every planter for your reference. Height (including plant): 7" Width: 4" Length: 9" Thanks for looking and please feel free to contact me with any questions!
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Welcome to Found Beauty Studio! This is my one woman attempt to bring a little fun back into the world with bright and functional recycled found object art. I've always been a maker of things. Always. But if you'd told me when I walked out of college with a bachelor's in theatre arts a decade ago in Massachusetts that I'd end up running my own art studio in Burlington, Vermont, I would have called you crazy. I had plans to go on to a successful and illustrious career in costume and set design, and then took a u-turn and worked in program direction and fundraising for nonprofits, and then as a community organizer for local government, and then burned out on the whole 70-hour-work-week-in-a-cubicle life and headed back to art.
Life takes funny twists and turns, and here I am, happier than I could have imagined in the upstairs of a house in the Old North End with my wood worker husband, three fluffy cats, and two turtles (one of whom is fast approaching 30 years old), using my maker-of-things skills to upcycle found materials into new creations. While I do create fine art pieces, my primary love is creating functional pieces - lamps, tote bags, jewelry, furniture, clothing, home goods, planters…the list goes on. I find great joy in taking a used up, forgotten and discarded object and turning it into a one of a kind piece that someone will use and love.
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