Getting Started with this Mini Planter Stand Idea
So, the other day, I was looking at my little succulent, you know, the one that’s surprisingly still alive. It was just sitting there on the windowsill, looking a bit sad, frankly. And I thought, it needs a bit of a lift. Nothing fancy, just something to get it off the direct surface. I’d seen some cute little stands online, but honestly, the prices for a tiny piece of wood? Ridiculous. Plus, where’s the fun in that?
Scrounging for Bits and Pieces
I remembered I had some leftover wood scraps from that shelf I put up last year. You know the one, the one that’s still slightly crooked but functional? Yeah, that one. So I went digging in the garage. Found a few pieces of pine, nothing special, just some offcuts. Also grabbed my trusty old handsaw – the one that probably needs sharpening but still gets the job done, eventually. And some wood glue, the kind that promises to stick anything to anything, which is usually a lie, but good enough for this.
Putting It All Together, Sort Of
Alright, here’s the “process,” if you can call it that. I didn’t really measure much. I just kind of held up the pot to the wood and made some marks with a pencil. Precision engineering this was not.
- First, I cut four small pieces for the legs. Tried to make them roughly the same height. One was a bit shorter, so I just sanded the others down a tiny bit. Good enough.
- Then I needed a top piece. Found a squarish bit that was almost the right size. A bit more sawing, a bit more swearing under my breath.
- Gluing was the next adventure. Put some glue on the top of each leg, then stuck the top piece on. I used some heavy books to clamp it down while it dried because who has actual clamps for these tiny projects? Not me. Waited a few hours. Hoped for the best.
Honestly, I half expected it to fall apart when I picked it up. But it held! A bit wobbly, maybe, but it stood on its own four feet. That’s a win in my book.
The Grand Finale (Spoiler: It’s Not That Grand)
I thought about painting it. Maybe a nice white, or a cheerful yellow. Then I looked at the effort involved. Finding the paint, the brushes, the cleaning up… Nah. I gave it a quick once-over with some sandpaper to get rid of the roughest splinters. Rustic, that’s what we’ll call it.
So, there it is. My mini planter stand. It’s not going to win any design awards. It’s probably not even perfectly level. But the succulent seems happier. Or at least, it hasn’t complained. And I saved myself, what, twenty bucks? Plus, I got to use up some of those wood scraps that were just gathering dust. Sometimes these little projects, the ones you don’t overthink, turn out to be the most satisfying. Or at least, they get done, which is more than I can say for some of the bigger things on my to-do list. It’s funny how that works, isn’t it? You put off fixing the leaky faucet for months, but you’ll spend an afternoon cobbling together a stand for a plant that cost less than the glue you used. Human nature, I guess.
