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It’s surprising to me too that this is the first appearance of\u00a0air plants on the blog. \u00a0Where have I been, took me long enough, about time, all of that yes. \u00a0Just another one of those things on my list\u00a0that took me forever to get to, but we’re here now!<\/p>\n
I started thinking about an air plant DIY after making a brass himmeli hanger<\/a> at a craft workshop. \u00a0The idea started out as an air plant wreath, then somehow I ended up here, which I guess could also be seen as a minimal wreath. \u00a0Whenever a DIY takes a different direction, it’s usually a result of simplifying things after the initial idea doesn’t work out, so that makes this one\u00a0a very, very simple idea\u00a0that’s definitely worth trying for how beautiful the results are.<\/p>\n Materials: So all that’s left is wrapping the wire tightly around the dowel (I wrapped each one about three times around) and cutting off the excess with wire cutters, making sure that the air plant is balanced on the top side of the dowel. \u00a0That part is a little tricky because the air plant makes the dowel top heavy and likely to tip over, so it’s a bit of a balancing act. \u00a0I used the suede lace to help stabilize the dowels\u00a0by somewhat weaving it within the leaves of the plant, which you’ll be able to see in the photo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you were looking for an April fools’ joke I’m sorry to disappoint you. \u00a0I’m sure you’ll be getting your fill today from other sources, but being that I\u00a0can be pretty gullible, I’m on HIGH alert today aka avoiding everyone and everything, HA. \u00a0May your day go on with harmless\u00a0fooling, but also have fun <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s surprising to me too that this is the first appearance of\u00a0air plants on the blog. \u00a0Where have I been, took me long enough, about time, all of that yes. \u00a0Just another one of those things on my list\u00a0that took me forever to get to, but we’re here now! I started thinking about an … Continue reading “DIY Air Plant Hangers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[361,297,195,249,222,362,234],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-air-plant","tag-garden","tag-hangers","tag-plant","tag-spring","tag-suede","tag-wood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/span>-square basswood dowel
\n–suede lace<\/a>
\n-scissors
\n-air plants
\n-wire
\n–wire cutters<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Wood](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wood-pieces1.jpg\")
I cut the square dowel into three pieces with the measurements noted above. \u00a0I picked a square dowel because I figured it would best keep the wire (showing that soon)\u00a0in place and prevent it from slipping around like it most likely would on a round dowel.<\/p>\n![\"Suede](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Suede-lace.jpg\")
I tied and double knotted each end of suede lace to each end of the wood dowel, then cut off the excess lace. \u00a0I roughly eyeballed the length of the lace so that it was somewhere near twice the length of the dowel, maybe a bit less.<\/p>\n![\"Wood](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wood-and-suede-hanger.jpg\")
And then it looks like a little trapeze!<\/p>\n![\"Wire\"](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wire.jpg\")
My air plants came with wire already wrapped around the base, but it would be fairly easy to add it yourself. \u00a0Note, this means the air plants will not be easily removable, but I plan on only water misting the plants\u00a0and not removing them for soaking. \u00a0I have another air plant that has faired well for a while with just water misting 2-3 times a week, which is a relief because it’s possible I’m\u00a0too lazy to regularly\u00a0remove plants for hours of soaking.<\/p>\n![\"Air](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Plant-Hangers1.jpg\")
I didn’t anticipate that each hanger would need to be hung off-center in order for the dowel to hang straight since I attached the plants on the ends, but I find it surprisingly beautiful that way and how it creates scalene triangles (woah, just realizing I\u00a0still remember that term from geometry class once upon a time, didn’t know that was still in my head).<\/p>\n![\"Air](\"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Plant-Hangers-DIY2.jpg\")
These turned out\u00a0way<\/em> better than the original sketch I had in mind (ain’t that the best?) and they’re the perfect accessory for letting the sculptural lines of the air plants take the main stage. \u00a0Very happy with these, AND with how well my plant babies have been doing in general. \u00a0You see that little baby leaf sprouting out from the plant at the bottom right? \u00a0Makes my heart sooooaaar.<\/p>\n