Today is my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, mom! <3
I like to give homemade gifts, especially to the people in my family because they appreciate homemade things very much, and that makes me very happy. So this year, I decided to make my mom a homemade flowerpot from cement. I had seen this done on Craftgawker before, and it looked awesome!
The actual process of making it, however, was not quite as expected. Though, it might have been due to lack of the right equipment...
Unfortunately I don't have pictures from the process of making it, but I'll tell you what I did..
First, i had to get the cement. Easy peasy, I thought. Evidently not. shops close early so I cant get in to buy it, and some stores that should sell cement, well.. they don't. So I found at last, on Coop Bygg.
Just add water, the guy said. Nice, I thought. Adding water was the easy part. The mixing was hard, without a cement-mixer or an electric drill. So I was mixing by hand, and after I had blemishes on my fingers and cement up under my nails. And scratches up to my elbows. The floor was full of cement and so were my clothes. And, by God, mixing cement with your bare hands is tiring work!
I had the cement in a big bucket, and I put a smaller bucket (covered in vaseline) in the middle. It dried pretty fast, but then came the removing of the casts (aka the buckets)
I had to smash the inner bucket to pieces because it had got stuck, even if it was covered in vaeline. And then I had to bang the entire outside of the big bucket with one of those soft-like hammers. and turn it upside down, and jump on it.. And I got it out! Woho! It's HEAVY!
But all in all, it turned out pretty great! And my aunt and my moms two friends were impressed so I guess it was all worth it in the end.
Lesson learned, though; buy something to help mix the cement next time.
I like to give homemade gifts, especially to the people in my family because they appreciate homemade things very much, and that makes me very happy. So this year, I decided to make my mom a homemade flowerpot from cement. I had seen this done on Craftgawker before, and it looked awesome!
The actual process of making it, however, was not quite as expected. Though, it might have been due to lack of the right equipment...
Unfortunately I don't have pictures from the process of making it, but I'll tell you what I did..
First, i had to get the cement. Easy peasy, I thought. Evidently not. shops close early so I cant get in to buy it, and some stores that should sell cement, well.. they don't. So I found at last, on Coop Bygg.
Just add water, the guy said. Nice, I thought. Adding water was the easy part. The mixing was hard, without a cement-mixer or an electric drill. So I was mixing by hand, and after I had blemishes on my fingers and cement up under my nails. And scratches up to my elbows. The floor was full of cement and so were my clothes. And, by God, mixing cement with your bare hands is tiring work!
I had the cement in a big bucket, and I put a smaller bucket (covered in vaseline) in the middle. It dried pretty fast, but then came the removing of the casts (aka the buckets)
I had to smash the inner bucket to pieces because it had got stuck, even if it was covered in vaeline. And then I had to bang the entire outside of the big bucket with one of those soft-like hammers. and turn it upside down, and jump on it.. And I got it out! Woho! It's HEAVY!
But all in all, it turned out pretty great! And my aunt and my moms two friends were impressed so I guess it was all worth it in the end.
Lesson learned, though; buy something to help mix the cement next time.
