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! 

A Spring on My Coffée Table: My Succulent Terrarium

Two times it have been that my jewelries were on Etsy front page. The last one was yesterday afternoon.  Talking about a good chance! I feel weird that suddenly the statistic balooned up more than ten times of regular visitors. That's probably how it feels to win a lottery. I don't mind the adrenaline at all :)

But it's not what I wanted to talk about today. You can't just talk about jewelry all the time, well you can actually. Anyhow.

I wanna talk about my two adopted succulent plants.  It's been more than a month that these two little succulents sleep in their too little plastic pots,

I know what I want to do with them but I don't deny that the power of procrastination had invaded me stronger than my will.  Everyday I glanced at them and I said to myself, curse you, do something for them, you don't adopt them just so you can torture them.

So last week I said to myself, That's enough! it is about time to liberate them from their camp and move into their real home.

And there you go! Can you see them in the crowd? D bought the glass jar from habitat long time ago before those little buddy existed. It was actually a cookie jar with a cute wooden lid, but I see a terarrium aquarium once I laid my eyes on this gorgeous container. Wanna take a tour? 

First, the furry fella looks happier than ever. I have placed her on an elevation slightly off the sunshine. Thus, she look a bit slanted looking for a sun exposure. Yeah show your curve sexy lady! 

The second succulent, tho, had went through an accident that injured a couple of his leaves. Another thing I noticed too is that the leaves has thinned up. It looks more like an adult plant with a less fat petals. So sad. But I am still happy with him especially when I see the little bud grows taller. 

The third species in my glass jar habitat are the plants I picked up on the street. They were almost dead off the ground, I picked up a couple of them and amazingly they are the ones that seems to be the happiest member in the family. 

And finally, our old friend, moss. I can't seems to let them go. This fluorescent green moss one is my favorite. Enjoy your weekend! Take advantage of the sun if you can! <3