Do you feel it yet?! The air getting cooler. Up in Northern Canada where I live we are definitely feeling it! The air is crisp, the leaves are turning (& falling!), and I’m wearing socks all day long again. Fall is here. I love putting elements of copper into my decor any time of year, but the warmth it brings is especially perfect come fall! I’m so excited to be joining Little Bits of Home for another Create with Me challenge today. At the beginning of each month we ask YOU to vote on what product we should use. Last month you voted for clay, so I’ve used it here as a shelf for my DIY Copper Air Plant Holder.
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When you’ve been DIYing for long enough, other people start to hoard things for you. My husband replaced our dishwasher last month and kept this copper pipe from behind for me. I LOVE the natural patina, and who doesn’t want to use bendable copper in a project?! As soon as clay was chosen, I knew what I was going to make!
Materials:
Soft Copper Tubing
Black Baking Clay
Ratcheting Tool
Air Plant
You may see a few air plant tutorials coming to the blog in the future. I have a small obsession with them now. Low maintenance, beautiful, self-sustaining. I can’t get enough.
All you do for this project is shape the clay into a rectangle for the “shelf”, cut the copper, and bake the clay to hold the copper in place.
Without further adieu, here’s the whole tutorial!
The copper lends the perfect amount of warmth for fall decor. I didn’t bother trying to make the pipe straight because a) that’s a LOT of work, b) it could scratch the pipe, and c) I like the intricacies of the shape.
And just because I love you all, here’s a sneak peak at the command centre I’m sharing next week!
What do you think? Would you hang this in your home?
My partner in crime made this awesome Pumpkin Knob with her clay. Be sure to go check it out!
What a great way to reuse an old pipe. I love it! I also think I need to find some air plants. Regular houseplants don’t seem to survive well in my home, but air plants I might be able to handle.
Yes! You definitely can handle air plants! I’m SO bad with other plants, but somehow air plants survive in my home too :)
What a great way to reuse an old pipe. I love it. i thnk i need air plant right now
thanks for sharing
Haha, that’s how I felt when I first saw air plants! I needed one! lol. Thanks for stopping by!
Can’t believe that you reused the old pipe. That’s amazing. I usually throw them away but now I may have to change the habit. LOL. Thanks a lot for your idea. The tutor video is great.
Haha that’s awesome! I’m glad! I’ll make something out of anything!
This project truly inspires me, I am a big fan of DIY, recycle and the way you use old pipe to be a plant holder is so so great. That means we can have tree anywhere in our house. I cant wait to try it out.
Oh I really really like this idea. Good to reuse something old to make our house become more impressive. Thank you very much for sharing.
Such a great idea. I didn’t know that we could reuse old pipes in the way like this. It’s very kind of you to share with us.
Wow, such a great idea. Now I know one creative way to reuse my old pipes. I love to make DIY items so much, but complicated items tend to make me wanna give up. This one is so easy and useful.
Thanks for sharing !!!
This project is great, copper air plant holder looks so cool, very creative.
I cant wait to try it out, i love to have plant every corner in my house. Thanks so much for inspiration!
Just so you know airplants do not like copper. Not sure about other metals I can’t remember off hand but look into it before you make this cute idea!
Thank you! Yes, someone else mentioned this after! Although I didn’t have any issues with my air plants to date, but hopefully this inspires something else!