Planters are a beautiful way to showcase your plants while adding a creative touch to your space. From DIY planters and upcycled containers to unique handmade designs, you’ll find plenty of tutorials to style your home and garden.
For me, there’s no gift quite as special as one that’s homemade and inspired by nature. And when that gift involves both succulents and recycling too then it ticks all…
Going through some of our old posts, I realized that we’d shared a bucket load of planters tutorials on the blog. Everything from eco-friendly branch mug planters to floating teapots…
One of the many things I love about South Africa is our rich and diverse cultural heritage. From our fierce Zulu warriors to the clicking Khoi San, the oldest race…
We’re always looking for new and unique ways to show off our growing succulent collection. And if you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll know we have a lot…
If you’ve been following the blog for a while you may know that we break a lot of wine glasses and we don’t even drink wine 😉 It’s always easy…
Kokedamas, or moss balls, originated in Japan, and these charming floating gardens are taking over the internet. Reminiscent of the hanging gardens of Babylon, they’re a great way to turn…
Ever heard the saying “go big or go home”? Well, here at a Crafty Mix we normally go small, but sometimes, just sometimes, we’ll go big 😀 Like when we…
Sometimes I see something in my head and go, “I wanna make that”, and it doesn’t work out. And then there are the times that IT does work!!! And it…
Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2019 ended on a good note and that 2020 brings you much joy and laughter. I thought I’d kick the new year off with…
A few weeks back we made some hollow concrete pumpkins, which turned out waaaaaay better than expected. We added a candle to one to make this gorgeous luminary, and another…
One of the best things about living in South Africa is that we get to spend a lot of time outdoors, pottering around in the garden. So it’s no wonder…
We love recycling things and turning them into unusual planters. Forks, shoes, coconuts, broken wine glasses, pallet scraps, it doesn’t matter. They’re all fair game 😉 One of my favorite…
