DIY River Stone Planter

I was recently skimming through Pinterest when I came across this link, and though to myself, Hey! I can do that too! And with mother's day just a little while ago and father's day coming up I decided that I had found the perfect DIY gift for each of them.

This was actually a super simple DIY. After slyly convincing my dad to let me have his extra terra cotta pots, and armed with only my glue gun, I set to work. Here's how I did it:

What you'll need:

• River stones (found mine at Dollar Tree, but can also be found at any craft store)
• Hot glue gun
• Plastic or clay planter

This project is pretty much a time consuming exercise in puzzles. All I did was, starting at the base of the pot, glue rocks on one-by-one. I found it really fun trying to find the perfect shapes and sizes to fit into each next place.

And before you know it you'll have a beautiful collection of unique planters. These are awesome to give as gifts or keep all to yourself. Since the first two, I've pretty much been making these constantly. 

Then all that's left to do is find some lovely flowers to compliment your new creation.

I really love these little guys, as my best friend pointed out, they look like little orange caterpillars. :)

Enjoy!

First Time for Everything

Hi friends!
So this is going to be my first ever blog post. How exciting! For those millions (yeah, right) of loyal followers of mine, hopefully you can expect to see cooking adventures, craft flops (and the occasional success!) and of course the obligatory fashion posts. Sometimes a person just can't help but be way too proud of an outfit, am I right?
So anyway, this is going to full of tons of neat-o stuff, from food, to crafts, to thrifting. I want to share all of my hits and misses with the world... and well, hopefully more than just my mom and best friend will be tuning in.

Here's to the future!

And meet Persimmon: The inspiration behind this blog's name.

Oh, please don't forget to Follow my blog with Bloglovin