it was a crafty weekend, internets, a sporty and a yuppie weekend; i put the last nails in three projects which had been floating about the apartment, we migrated up to our old local for the usa-england match on saturday afternoon, shakespeare was parked at last on saturday night - first night of the merchant of venice! - and we returned frosty the beleaguered helper robot yesterday afternoon.* i'm up to my eyeballs in the august issue and haven't a luxurious lunch break in which to tell you about shakespeare just yet, but i can get started on the crafty stuff. a design*sponge sneak peek featuring a cambridge apartment full of staghorn ferns convinced me that we needed one of our own. a catproof plant that addresses the antler trend without, you know, requiring any antlers!
sprout home had a fern for me, so i spent last week staining and sealing a plaque with which to mount and hang it.
i screwed a bunch of eyes into the plaque so that i could lace the moss-wrapped fern against it with wire, gaga-corset-like.
i gave the root ball and moss a good soaking; wild staghorns cling to trees and get most of their moisture from the air, but as houseplants they need to be doused every now and again.
we eyeballed a spot with strong but indirect light, sunk a nail into the wall, and boom.
meet moose the fern. he's cute, no?
*and somehow managed to hire a 93-year-old man to ferry us and two new window units from wall street back to the lower east side, a trip which was both fascinating and more than a little terrifying.
8 comments:
EFFING AWESOME! I SO WANT A WALL OF THESE!!!!!!
So good to see you again, Moose. You've an exceptionally handsome rack and your plaque looks gooooood.
(But what about the panty-hose? Weren't there going to be panty-hose?)
my go-to tutorial mentioned pantyhose, and i did pick some up at a dollar store - but it also said wire could be alright on its own. since i didn't feel like drilling through the plaque in order to make holes big enough for the hose (i'm kind of afraid of our drill, truth be told) and i liked the look of the rings, wire it was. though i just realized that i didn't make sure my wire wasn't copper, and copper wire can poison ferns - gah. pesky reading comprehension.
Boggled. Swoggled.
Genius.
During the 5 minutes they let us off of the tour bus in actual nature in the everglades I saw a tree COVORED in a huge mass of these airplants. It was impressive.
Totally worth the mirrored mosquito bites on each of my ankles.
if i have a faux fireplace in my new place, one of those is going above it. if i don't, one of those is going somewhere else.
re: wire, i would think it's copper free -- i played with a lot of wire as an art student, and all of it was steel.
No way! That's some crazy genius.
amazeballs! i am utterly confused by this. i will have to show my landscaper, aka joe (my joe).
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