Planter - Reboot Robot Plant Holder Made From A Sauce Pan
If you're going to have plants around you (which I highly recommend you do :) why put them in a boring old pot when you can put them in a robot? I mean, seriously, robots are awesome. I made this mustached little friend as part of my Reboot Robot series and after a few days of staring at the sauce pot on my desk, this design came to me and it was done in a week. The plant is not included, but anything in a 3 1/2" pot or less will fit. Want to know what the parts are? It's made from a vintage tiny sauce pot, a lanyard tie, two measuring spoons, pieces of a candle holder, a can opener, and a handful of nuts, bolts, washers, and wire. All items were collected at thrifts stores, yard sales, and my local second hand building materials supply store. Height: 12 1/2" Width: 8" Thanks for looking and please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Meet the Maker
Laura Hale
Found Beauty Studio
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.
