STRIPES TO DOTS: DIY POLKA DOT POT

Hope you all had a great July 4th weekend! I did. A relaxed one. 

I planned on getting a succulent for the family room since it lacked any green. A succulent, I hear are foolproof. You can not kill them.

I had this IKEA pot. I bought it same time when I had spray painted the pot gold for the foyer.

Keeping the color theme of navy blue and white in the family room, I first spray painted the pot in navy blue left over from the lamp makeover project.
Once the navy blue paint was dry, I taped the top and bottom of the pot.

Then I gave it coats of white paint. After it dried, I removed the tape. It looked good but when I got it inside, I saw that the white paint had seeped into the blue part.

I took it back to garage and sprayed the navy blue paint to cover the white part.

A week later, one night I was watching something on my computer. And I thought, I could do a free hand painting on the pot with white paint.

I kept drawing and kept wiping off. Good thing the blue paint was gloss finish so was able to wipe off the craft paint.

There was a pencil on the table with the eraser on the end. I picked the pencil, dipped the eraser of the pencil in white paint and went about pressing the white paint on the pot forming a dot.

I liked what I saw. The dots did not have to be perfect as long as they were a dot.

Once complete, I bought a succulent and planted it. Confident that I will not kill it.

Two weeks later.

Do you know anyone, who has killed a succulent? Now you know. And I am not proud about it.

I was at Hobby Lobby and when I saw these faux succulents, the first thing that crossed my mind was "there is no way I can kill this". I picked these 2 different kinds not sure which one I liked.

I potted the wider one into the pot with soil and covered with small rocks. I had cut the stem to have the succulent reduce the height to fit in the pot.

 

There were few spreads of white paint here and there which did not bother me much.

The white and blue tray is also a DIY. An easy one. Will share it soon. 

A before and an after.

What do you like, stripes or polka dots?

Have a great week ahead.
Reshma