Repurposing Pinvy

I’ve been spending a pinch more time on Pinterest these days. While I’m looking for inspiration, what I develop most of the time is image envy. Let’s call it Pinvy. Sometime my Pinvy is based on the object in the image, and sometimes (most of the time) it’s based on the composition and lighting in the photograph itself (because while I can craft a lot of crap, I can’t seem to capture my craftiness in an image that satisfies). One such envy-inducing image was a wavy, scalloped-looking planter for succulents. It made me think of a weird bowl made out of a melted record that I had sitting in a closet, and then the Pinvy turned into Pinspiration. Which is to say, I felt that I had the adequate skills and materials to copy something I saw.

I pulled this wacky record bowl out of the closet and rejoiced with the realization that it would make the perfect planter. Have you ever noticed that inexpensive planters never have a hole in them? And that trying to repurpose other things into planters is nearly impossible because they lack that drainage hole? That hole, that tiny absence of material is mysteriously worth extra money except for this one time I remembered I owned a melted record that could be used like a bowl.

So.

Step 1: Paint the record with leftover paint.

Step 2. Fill with dirt.

Step 3. Put succulents in dirt.

Step 4. Photograph (poorly).

Step 5. Photograph again (still poorly).

Step 6. Give up and post it anyway.

Weird record bowl

Repurposed planter