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FANCIFY – ING YOUR TERRA COTTA

Today’s DIY, FANCIFY- ING YOUR TERRA COTTA (how cute is the title) is being shared with us today by the AMAZINGLY talented and super sweet, Courteny Keefe de Jauregui of Flush Designs.  I adore Courtney, she’s a true ‘Party Planning Guru’ and I’m excited to have her stop by today!

Supplies:

Pieces of wood for a lift 15′ square (depending on the round size of table) {home depot}
Burlap by the yard {Joanne’s fabric}
Staple gun
Pots of all sizes how ever large or small depending on table size and your ambitions.:)
Garden twine or hemp twine
Rope
Fun paper that would match your wedding theme/colors {Paper Source}
Some lace or other fabric for soft flowing ties
Mud 🙂
Hot Glue
Mod Podge {craft stores}
Potted plants of all styles that give you the look you want. Herbs work great.
I also added some Craspedia… aka billy balls and Scabiosa pods…both are hearty and can be added days before the wedding.

For the lift…….I used a staple gun to secure the burlap to the wood then for a finishing touch hot glued the lace trim around the edges. 

Decorating the pots:

The winding of the rope can take a bit of time so I chose to do the little one all the way around  and the big one just the top but one or two big pots wrapped completely with rope looks great too.

When wrapping the small twine around you can get away with hot glue in small sections or every fifth wrap. 
The large rope must be glued down completely.

For the paper – tear into strips. Use the Mod Podge glue to decoupage the paper to the pot. Put the ‘glue’ on the pot- place paper (let the wrinkles happen that is okay! 🙂 ) then paint more of the glue over the paper to hold it down and to give it a nice glossy finish. It will dry clear if uses sparingly and applied in a thin coat. 

For the other pots I just coated them in mud set out to dry in the sun and then tied lace and twine through the hole in the bottom to give the muddy pots a more feminine touch. Fabric strips would look really cute here too. 

I used one of the pots as a lift for the other pots so there was a variety of heights and giving that pot a use other then what it is for. 

The dishes I used are vintage from my grandmother’s collection. 

The champagne flutes and hob knob  glasses are from Anthropologie and the crystal wine glass is from 
my own collection also once my grandmothers.

Oh when planting the flowers, to do a nice blend in one pot,  you will be shortening the life span by cramming them in together, so planting the week of will be best as they won’t last forever all together one will eventually beat out the others.

So for the multi-plant pots do them last and keep them well watered. water the night before to get really moist soil  and spritz the day of the wedding as you don’t want water to drain out onto your table. If you want to throw some fresh cut flowers in some of the pots instead of plants with dirt use small dixie cups with water in the small pots and disposable tupperware inside the big pots. 

Courtney, thank you SO much for ‘kicking off’ our DIY series….the terra cotta designs are truly lovely…and  the tablescape is just so charming….we look forward to your next dose of DIY…xoxo