festive.

This holiday season, Walmart Neighborhood Market, is selling poinsettias for $3.50! I snagged one, of course, and had it sitting the bar in my apartment in it's original packaging for a week or so. I got tired of looking at the dark green shiny plastic protecting the base. I wanted something more festive to adorn the bottom of this seasonal plant.

Outside on my porch, I had two dead and dying green and pink Colocasia, or Elephant-ears, potted in your standard clay pots. Seeing as how those plants are particular to the autumn season, I de-rooted one of them, and got to work on my soon to be festive pot!

First I painted the pot red and let it set for about 2 hours

I took painters tape and applied it to the pot.

I let the paint set for an hour, stripped the tape away, and voila!

I went ahead and painted the water catcher base gold because I felt like there needed to be more gold than red considering the poinsettia is red itself. Too much red can be over-bearing.

It really adds something to the decorations in my apt. Nothing quite like a living, breathing plant to spruce up your home at any time of the year!