MAKE A TERRARIUM.
The one thing I hear the most often about my Wee Beasties after I am told how damn cute they are is “What do you do with them?”
During Julys virtual Handmade Canberra Market I made a quick video about five ways you may use a wee beastie and I thought I would do a little series of posts about what you may do with a wee beastie – that is what you can do besides keeping them as super cute dust collectors! 😉
As you may know I am a bit of a shell hoarder collector. I collect shells from our travels and during a recent visit to the south coast I found a beach which had an abundance of Sea Urchin shells.
I love these shells so much – I once spent a couple of hours gathering them on a beach in Greece to send home and I once had a massive fight with Mac about whether I had cleaned one properly before having it in our room when we lived in Scotland. (I had by the way – the fishy smell was a power point that had burnt out but that is another story!)
So I have my sea urchins, a Pinterest account, and unhealthy obsession with indoor plants and my wee beasties. Why not make myself a wee beastie terrarium.
I decided on air plants as they could be in a dry terrarium. I do not recommend you use wee beasties in a traditional terrarium, the wee beastie would more that likely be damaged by the moisture. (Think some grossly mould peeling mess!)
I bought some pasta jars from the discount shop and removed the hardware, and then drilled a hole through the lid – using a tile/ glass bit for my drill.
I threaded some chain through the top, or small hole, of my sea urchins (attaching it to a broken match to secure it inside the urchin) and glued my air plants with a hot glue gun, into the large hole of the sea urchin. I threaded the chain through the hole in the lid and tied a messy knot!
I added some blue sand I found at another discount store, a shell from my huge collection (this one looks like a volcano!) and my mermaid wee beastie!
I think the part that I love most is the plants and shells look like jelly fish in the water! Unfortunately the air plants didn’t survive the scorching summer and our ill timed (for them) vacation, but I have left them as they are in the terrarium because I think they still look super cool.
So what do you do with your Wee Beasties? Why not try making a dry(ish) terrarium?
