Well, it’s summer time and I just wanted to share something that will be so easy. The hard part will be getting the basket for the price I got this one for.

I love to go to a garage sale when the husband is running things. He just wants to get rid of this “junk.” And to think that his wife only yesterday called them her treasures. Well, I am sure this basket must have been one Aunt Martha used for many a chicken dinner picnic. I’d say it was worth $.50, wouldn’t you? Her husband wanted me to take it for nothing, but I begged him to take $.50 for it. He finally took my money and I told him he drove a hard bargain.

Well, let’s hurry and get it home and get started on the transformation.

Well, I got my trusty can of white spray paint. One can wasn’t enough. This wicker really soaks up the paint. I used Krylon. So now my $.50 basket has cost me $6. Oh well, it’s worth it. It’s a big basket.

The next step was to get a clay pot and add floral foam to it. I put the strong foam in it and glued it in with Liquid Nails. (Do you know what the wind is like out in the country in Kansas?) Then I remembered I had a wonderful fern out in the shop that would fill this BIG basket.

Luckily this picnic basket came with a shelf in it. If yours doesn’t and you need some height to bring the fern out of the basket, use a few bricks. Believe me, we could use the bricks on my front porch to keep this basket on my porch and not the neighbor’s pasture.

(Picture 4 & 5) Now go to your favorite floral store (or come to mine) and get a beautiful petunia vine. I have to confess I only have one vine of petunias in this one as I had a little one left from an arrangement I did for a customer. I also used geraniums, but the petunias are so much more realistic.

 

 

I then put the finishing touches on the project. I love to see the American flag on my porch all summer long. After adding the flag, I moved it to it’s new summer home. I can’t wait for the picnics and fun we’ll have as a family all summer long. Hopefully, I’m creating summer memories for my grandchildren they’ll tell to their children about their grandmother’s house during the summer.

I know this project is elementary, but I just wanted to share it with you for the next time you see a picnic basket that needs a new home. It is great to participate in Metamorphosis Monday. I always have fun reading all the other transformations that happen.