Orchids!

While I'm continuing to work on the Plaza/Gazebo, I plan to loop back and spotlight some décor details from past projects (completed before I even began this blog).

This time, I want to take a closer look at the art gallery's front porch BENCH and SHELF, and a pot of orchids!

Here's a look at the front of the art gallery.   Quick background... the gallery itself was made of four walls, a ceiling, and windows all constructed of wooden craft pieces of the sort you can buy at a local craft store.  The windows are clear plastic pieces cut from packages or wrappers and glued in between wood or paper. That's the case with the front window of the gallery.

Back to the front porch.  There's a wide shot, a closer one, and third, a close-up of the bench and shelf. 

The bench was made of bent/shaped cardboard which was painted with acrylic.  Then I used a fine magic marker to "make planks" and "nails".  The shelf behind the bench is just another piece of wood glued to the front wall and painted.  On it, I placed a sign (in Spanish) about hours of business.

My favorite item on or around the bench or shelf is the pot of "orchids".  It's actually an inverted small toothpaste tube cap, with some real grass stems glued in, and some real dirt glued in around them.  The orchid "blossoms" are just made of tiny paper structures (rolled up and trimmed and  colored with magic markers).  I then glued them on to the grass.  Voila!  A pot of orchids!

Once again let me say... if you don't have time/motivation/materials/whatever to make all this stuff from scratch, you can find plenty of ready-to-go stuff online, or at the hobby store.  You can use it as is, or paint/personalize it...  the important thing is to make a mindfulness-embracing little world for yourself!