Succulent Terrarium: Reborn!

Preparing a gloomy cold winter, I bought four succulents to brighten our apartment.  The obsession began earlier this year and it slowed down as I managed to build this.

Came back from the vacation last summer, I thought that they'd all die of hunger but to my surprise they looked fine and some of the stems grew even taller. I was overjoyed and feed them a couple drops of water everyday, thought that these extra food would replace their thirst while I'm away. well, DUH it's not the case. This is how they looked like two days ago..

I took everything out, threw away the dry roots, stems, and moss. Separate the pebbles and soils, redo everything she instructed on this diy blog post on terrarium.  I use old tweezer to align the misplaced rocks, used eye shadow brush to sweep the naughty soils off the succulents and glass wall, and plastic spoon to scoop in and out the soil. 

and voilà! a brand new terrarium. 

I replaced the moss with the pebbles, don't think that these two works together for most of the time succulents grows better in drier soil while the moss takes up joy in a darker and more humid space. 

Goofy thought that the red berry succulent (I made the name up, don't have the specific name of this plant) smells good. 

This cow couldn't find it's way out of the succulent garden. 

Enjoy your Monday, stay warm! 

Have a Succulent Weekend!

Hei! Hope your week had been fine. Mine had been hectic, I couldn't seems to take good photo product on my etsy store, very frustrating, if you know the trick and technique, I'm open for any suggestion. 

Anyhow, yesterday morning I saw a rack full of of fresh succulent at Tang Frere that I have been meaning to have for a while.  Thought about picking it up after the groceries but, silly me, probably have my head somewhere, that I forgot about it.  So this morning I rushed through the store, spent like ten minutes picking the most gorgeous looking succulent on the rack while telling myself that if I were to do it yesterday I could have more choice.

Coming home, all smiling and happy, set up the prop and click click. Taking photos other than jewelry has been liberating, I don't have to think about anything but adoring these gorgeous babies.  

They will soon be in my terrarium. Can't wait.  Please enjoy your weekend! 

Freshen Up my Home and Recycle

I spent the last two days freshening up our apartment.  Obviously we have too much junk that can't wait to meet their friends at the recycle bin.  Letting go stuff is hard for us, I don't deny that I love collecting junks. But thanks to our small living space that force us to recycle and, if we can't help it, to hoard smartly so we don't make our home looks like pack rat's chateau. 

After a long hours throwing away,sniff, stuff. I reward myself with a modest and fun working corner. I reused an old computer case as a magnetic board.  D made a wire out of an old metal stick we have from demantling a separator between our room and the living room and forged it into an over the door coat hook, I reused it to hold my notebooks and scrap papers.  It is practical and since it is hanged, it really save a lot of space.  And finally you've noticed a rattan compartment, and an old whiskey bottle case made out of tin to organize the stuff thats normally hangs out freely on the table.   

Do you remember this little bud from my moss terarium?  Well it is growing into the plant in the violet vase right now.  With a blush line highlighting the edge of the leaves, the bud might look more attractive and cuter, but I can't deny how much proud I am to see it is growing so big and bunch.

Well hope you are motivated to do something around the house this weekend, or is it too gorgeous outside to stay inside? Whatever you do, please smile like this little bud that's too happy to see the world. 

Succulent Terrarium

It is normal to always want something right? I have been 'craving' to have terrarium, not sure if the urge of making one or just owning one. In short, I WANT it.  Going back and forth at google search to find a good DIY and consulting the gardening page on which plants, pots, soil to use.  I thought to myself, maybe if I just read it off, the urge of having one will go away. It's not like it's an addiction or something, I deserve to have a one beautiful mini terrarium at home. But the problem is we live in a small apartment and we already have plenty of plants! They are happy to live with us indeed, but we, too, need some space to live.. Dillema oh dillema...

Well, before I decide, here are the stuff I was talking about..

From Garden of Leah. What a gorgeous pot and I love how healthy and playful her succulent goes. 

http://www.thepeachtreebrooklyn.com/2008/07/mad-about-moss-pant-not-kate.html

Apparently this is where you should find your life moss, save some $$ and it is more organic than the preserved one. I think.  Now that I think about it, I see plenty of these everywhere.. 

This is a terrarium within a lightbulb, Camille from Chapeau Bas shared the full DIY.

oh I don't mind a healthy tree with real wood in my terrarium, image from lacrafterie.fr. 

DIY from Our Fine House is my favorite so far, simple and it consist of two plants I like: moss and succulent.

 Sara Norris Photography took gorgeous photo, she was right, the touch of purple at the end of the leaves makes it look sexier. 

It is tempting to just click here and buy Amanda's terrarium from etsy. 

or the moss jar terrarium from little glass house on etsy.