I love spring flowers, but it is still a bit early here to put them out. Â I really wanted to switch out my Christmas winter planter by my front door, so this is what I came up with. Â A few speckled eggs, moss covered rocks and a moss bunny.
I started transforming the eggs first. Â This is how what they looked like when I started. Â They were plastic, colorful and covered in glitter. Â I enjoyed them for a few years, but now I am ready for a change.
I began by removing the ribbon and covering the glitter eggs with Gesso to give them a bit of texture. Â It took a couple of coats of Gesso applied with a pallet knife to get the coverage and texture that I was looking for.
The painting took a few steps, but I LOVE how they turned out. Â I first painted them with a soft blue, green and white. Â Then the eggs got a brown glaze which brought out the texture of the Gesso. Â Finally, I used a thin brown paint and a toothbrush to add a few speckles.
The bunny was next.  I found this ceramic little guy at a thrift store for 80 cents.  I began by covering a small area with hot glue and then pressing a handful of moss into the glue.  I continued until the entire bunny was covered in moss.  SO much better!
I covered the planter with a circle of cardboard and hot glued it in place, which gave me a base to build on. Â I poked the wire of the eggs through the cardboard and hot glued them in place. Â I also hot glued the moss bunny to the cardboard since it will be sitting outside on our porch.
Finally I covered all the exposed cardboard with moss and added a few moss covered rocks. Â I love it, although I think that I love the speckled eggs the most.
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Brilliant Easter project, I love it!
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I love this idea! I found you through the Tuesday Time Out Hop, hosted by “Reasons to Skip the Housework”….if you have a chance stop on by to see my creative attempt!
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So cute! 🙂
Thanks for linking up!! 🙂
Cute and a good solution until flowers can be planted!
Love this idea! So nice that you thought of a way to transform some things you weren’t in love with! It looks great!
Super cute and great pics! Thanks so much for linkin up. Can’t wait to see what you have for next week.
That is so cute! I just featured your planter on my blog! 🙂 http://www.polishthestars.com/2011/04/link-party-monday-14.html