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Flour Sifter Planter

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Flour Sifter Planter

Recently I inherited some of my Grandma and Grandpa’s belongings.  This year marks the end of an era at the Van Over house.  All that is left are memories and a few items from their house.  They were wonderful Grandparents!  I loved them both so much!

My Grandma was the BEST cook in the world!  She made everything from stratch.  No store bought boxes at her house.  So, I knew I wanted a few kitchen items to remember my Grandma and her cooking.  One of those items was a old hand cranked flour sifter.

Flour Sifter

I wanted to come up with an idea to display this flour sifter instead of sticking it in the back of a cabinet never to see it again.  I thought of using it as a planter would be great!  Now, every time I walk into the kitchen and see this sifter I am reminded of my amazing Grandma.

First I placed a coffee filter in the bottom of the sifter.  This allows the soil and water to be caught and from leaking everywhere.

Flour Sifter

Next, I just add some soil and placed a nice green plant into the dirt.  I chose a plant called Exotic Angel.  The tag says that is is easy to grow, which is good because I do not have a green thumb.

Flour Sifter Planter

I tied some Raffia around the sifter to make a bow and added a chalkboard tag.  The tag was made by placing a chalkboard sticker onto a piece of card stock and tapping it to a wooden skewer.  Then I just wrote the word Inspire on the tag with a chalk marker.

Flour Sifter Planter

This is a great reminder and memento of my Grandma.

Thanks for letting me share this with you!

 

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Comments

  1. Vera Lima says

    Great Ideas !!
    There is no money that pays the beautiful memories we had with the one’s we love !!
    I am sure your Grandma must be very happy right now where ever she is!

  4. Tracy says

    I’d love to have you share this or any of your amazing posts at our weekly Super Saturday Link Party. It starts Friday’s at 6pm, hope we see you there!

    Tracy

  15. Becca says

    Very cute! Now to find a sifter…. Thanks for sharing. Stop by my Friday’s Five Features tomorrow and link up this post (and others)! diy-vintage-chic.blogspot.com

  16. janice schaub says

    I love that idea. A great way to use something that is special for you. I suppose you could also use it for fake plants to put on the overheads in the kitchen (cupboards) . I will try this myself as I do have one of those. Thanks for the great idea
    Janice

  17. carolyn ~ homework says

    I just wanted to let you know that I featured your wonderful project on homework. Thanks so much for sharing it on The Inspiration Board. It makes me so happy to see beautiful creativity linked up!

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  19. Nici says

    Thanks so much for coming over to party with us last week at our All Things Thursday Blog Hop! I’m featuring your cute little planter tomorrow on my blog and I’ll also be pinning it to my ATTBH Features Board on Pinterest. Thanks again and I hope to see at this week’s party which goes live at 8pm Central tomorrow night.
    Blessings,
    Nici

  21. Kim says

    SO clever…and very farmhouse rustic! I love that it has meaning to you as well…the best décor always does! 🙂

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