MY own LITTLE garden

There are a few blogs out there that I follow. One of them just happens to be written by someone who I admire lots and lots. She is super creative and I always get super inspired when I see all the cool crafts she does. With that in mind, I miss home. I miss the weather (and it actually being summer in June). I  miss my family. I miss playing soccer every day. I miss almost everything about being in Clarksville, Tennessee. I miss my dad and his incessant yard work. I miss my mom and her billions of house plants. So, I wanted to do something to bring that home to me and to make my home feel more like my own home. This is where I belong at this point in time and nothing could convince me otherwise. But it doesn't always help me not miss everything. So I made my own indoor garden. I got the idea from Janae, the awesome blogger I mentioned earlier. Michael and I went to Lowe's in Idaho Falls to look at siding for our house and I found what I was looking for.

I knew that I wanted plants that I could actually keep alive. And since we live in a desert, these little succulents seemed appropriate. So with the plants picked out, I had to find something to pot them in. I really liked the idea of an old, antique looking waterer but since everything from Lowe's looks so new, I didn't have any luck with that. So we tried Walmart. No luck there either. We did find this super cute dish, the brown one behind the plants in the above picture. Now this is meant for use as a serving platter or something like that. I found it in the section with all the dishes. It should be able to hold water and not leak... right??

Anyway, here's the idea. The plants go in the dish and the dish holds the plants. Cute right?

Here you can see I added dirt. Looks just like a garden! Derek Zoolander would want it to be at least 3 times bigger!!! I thought it was still a little plain, and if it was going to live inside, it needed to be much prettier.

So I added rocks, that I found outside.... And these little gem things that I found in my car. I LOVE it!!! It sits on my kitchen counter, getting all the light it needs all day long. This little thing is so cool. It helps me feel like I live somewhere exotic, like an actual desert that's actually warm! Yay for little things that make me happy. 

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Thanks Janae for all your inspiration!