Here’s how to make cool concrete wall art decor for your walls. Create a triptych of wall tiles, MCM style with cement! I am a big fan of modern design and yet, other than my furniture, I have very little modern decor. So, I figured it was time to change that. I wanted to create a sort of triptych for…
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A cinder block planter sculpture! Paint and stack cinder blocks, add plants to make a fantastic vertical planter. **Updated 10/16/2019** I really needed a way to spruce up this bare spot in front of a fence in my yard. I have a bunch of plants and not enough room on my deck for all of them, so I decided to…
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Make a spooky cement Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween out of cement and a plastic pumpkin. **Updated 10-22-19** Oh Halloween, what a fun time of year. And on a year I don’t have a Halloween costume party to go to, I’ve got the time and energy to put into decorating. Being a maker of all things cement, I thought I…
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Healing With Art They say art can heal, and I truly believe that. Read on for my story on healing with art. An icky thing happened to me recently at work. It wasn’t anything sexual as the term “icky” might invoke the thought, but it felt really icky and made me feel like I was the size of a pea….
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Round DIY magnetic cement planters made from a plastic ball, with an actual making time of only 15 minutes. In less than 2 hours, when the cement has cured, you’ll have the perfect mini cement succulent planter. Oh what joy these DIY magnetic planters bring me! I had been dying to make these for over a year. Last summer, while working…
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Make an easy homemade succulent planter from cement. Here’s a written and video tutorial for this fun DIY. If you read my cement bird bath tutorial post or watched the video version of the tutorial, then you’ll see that this flower-shaped succulent planter is strongly inspired by that. While making the bird bath, I thought of another way to utilize…
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Use a Dollar Store bowl to make a brightly colored cement bird bath. I’ve mentioned before, I’m a birder (bird watcher) and I made this Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder for the birds, but I was feeling like something was missing, a bird bath! A colleague at work was talking about how she watches the owls and hawks splash around in…
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Repurpose an old sneaker to make a DIY cement planter. I saw a cement planter that someone made using a rain boot and I thought it would be really cute to make a planter out of a Converse high top sneaker. I love experimenting with unique shapes of existing items to make planters out of. Why not a cement sneaker…
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Have you thought about doing a DIY privacy fence? Get privacy from neighbors with a pretty outdoor fence made with twigs and fairy lights. Years ago when I was living in a loft complex, I had a patio that faced a busy road. I always felt watched by passerby’s. I was renting this loft so was limited to making any…
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