Cute little pots for Queso's aide..

Well, my son being special needs, has his own personal aide. His aide this year is WONDERFUL and spoils him so much he finally likes going to school again. So, of course I needed to do something extra special for her for the last day of school. She told me her favorite color is pink and I know she loves growing things so...when I came across these little greenware pots at goodwill, I grabbed several as my mind was churning out ideas.

Now, when I bought them I thought green meant like, organic or something like that, then I found out that it means ceramic that hasn't been fired. Well, not one to be discouraged, I just coated the whole thing with white acrylic paint, let it dry then did it again. I filled one of these up with soil and watered it down really well to see if it would destroy the pot and left it overnight. YAY! It didn't affect it at all so, I emptied it and set to painting them.

Now I got 4 of these little pots for about $1.25 and when I was at the $1 I found little clear plastic trays that would work perfect. I only sprayed the bottom of this so that it wouldn't get scratched up from the bottom of the pots.

After I got them all coated well, I went over them again with a triple thick clear coat (spray paint style) and prepared to embellish them.

I had some sparkly ribbon I had got at the $1 store around the holidays for wrapping gifts and found this horrid pink gemstone necklace I had picked up from a free posting on Craigslist in Oregon. I took some wire cutters and cut the gems into separate pieces and got at it with my hot glue gun.

I am not in love with the placement or really even the pink "bling" but she at least pretended to love it so, it was fun and in the end, I think I spent @ $3.50 to make this since I paid about $1.50 for the little tray of flowers.

I would do this again but I would just buy terra cotta pots and maybe more little jewels to kind of cover them in gems since she told me she loves the bling. But there it is, an end of the year gift that is nothing like any other she is bound to ever get :)