Urban Jungle Bloggers: Kitchen Greens

This month's Urban Jungle Bloggers theme is "Kitchen Greens". The kitchen is a place that I like to spend time in... I actually really love to cook when I have some time on my hands. Right now I'm in a healthy phase again (with me it comes with phases) so I try to use as much fresh ingredients as possible. Fresh herbs are the perfect example of kitchen greens but at the moment I didn't have any. I do have a couple of cute small plants to spice up my kitchen! Recently I found this little cacti family at the gardening centre. I had to take them home because of their little yellow flowers, did not see those before!

That other little plant, I don't know the name of, I have for a long time now and this one keeps doing so well! It doesn't need a lot of attention so it's a keeper. If you're curious about the rest of my kitchen? There's a reason you're not seeing it! There's still a lot that I would love to change but maybe it would be better to get a complete new kitchen! Oh well... Maybe one day... But for now I'm just showing you some details ;)

Pictures by Marij Hessel

DIY Cacti for Fashionista magazine

This month the restyled Fashionista magazine is out with a complete new look! I'm very proud to be featured in this issue with a fun and easy DIY! Even though cacti are plants very easy to maintain, sometimes we're just too busy to take care of our green friends and they might end up dried out or neglected. If that is the case with you, this might be the solution: fake cacti! They will live forever and don't need any attention at all!

This is what you need:

- foamboard or cardboard

- Green and white paint

- A black marker

- Rice

- Flowerpots ( I got these at Ikea)

- Utility knife

- Cutting mat

- Pencil 

Step 1:

Print out some cacti templates ( you can find one on my DIY Pinterest board: https://nl.pinterest.com/myattic/diy/), cut out the shapes & trace them onto the foamboard with a pencil.

Step 2:

Cut out the cacti shapes from the foamboard with a utility knife.

Step 3:

Paint them in different shades of green. Use the white paint to create the different shades of green. Leave them to dry.

Step 4:

Use the black marker to draw some spines onto the cacti and put the pieces together to create a cactus. 

Step 5:

Fill up the flowerpots with rice and put the cacti into the rice.

All done!

Pictures by Marij Hessel

Urban Jungle Bloggers: Show Your Plant Gang!

It's so cool to see all those Plant Gangs from bloggers all over the world through Urban Jungle Bloggers! I'm happy to show you my very own Plant Gang! I gathered (almost) all of my plants and thought the Tomado shelving unit was a perfect place to make a composition of my green friends. As you can see, some of them are in glass and some of them are in terracotta or porcelain. I love to mix them all together in different sizes, structures and shapes! For all my UJB posts, click here!

Pictures by Marij Hessel