Selecting Healthy Air Plants

Selecting healthy Tillandsia, also known as Air Plants, is almost the same as selecting any other plant. Normally you want to select a plant with a good root system, but air plants don’t use their roots to get nutrients or water. If an air plant has roots or no roots, it’s not something to worry […]

The 10th Annual Atomic Holiday Bazaar!

Hello patient people! This post is mainly for our local area here in Sarasota, Florida… but we are also working on a follow-up post that is relevant for everyone. That post will be about choosing healthy Tillandsia (air plants). We’ll tell you what to look for and what to stay away from, so stay tuned!

Upcycled Aluminum Frying Pan Planter

The aluminum frying pan was in our “get rid of” pile after doing some spring cleaning, but we decided to upcycle/repurpose it. For a while we weren’t sure what to do with it due to our inspiration taking a very extended vacation.

Rustic Tillandsia Log with Favorite Quote

Greetings people! Sorry our posts have slowed down a bit but we’ve been going through a bit of a creative block. I guess that happens to most of us from time to time.

Tillandsia Terrarium in a Mason Jar Mug

Howdy people! Yes, our posts have slowed down a bit and I’ll tell ya…..getting use to a new medication can mess with you as it has with me. I’m feeling more productive today so I figured I had better get to typing! We made these Mason Jar Mug Terrariums for the Atomic Holiday Bazaar this […]

Tillandsia Tree with a Sphere Base

We’ve had this project done for quite some time but it just sat in the garage for a while before we decided to use it in the house. We weren’t quite sure what to do with it before and it was a bit of an experiment, but when in doubt, stick an air plant on […]

Atomic Holiday Bazaar 2013

It’s almost here again folks! The Atomic Holiday Bazaar 8th Annual Indie Craft Show! We wanted to let you know we’ll be selling our air plant creations (and bromeliads) at this event again this year so if you happen to be in or near the Sarasota, Florida area, it’s worth the trip!

Tillandsia Beach Landscape in Bamboo

We cleaned out the garage yesterday and found more bamboo tucked away in a dark spider infested corner. Today we sat here looking at it wondering what to do with it…. We kept thinking planters but we wanted to do something different than your run-of-the-mill planters, so when in doubt, use tillandsia (air plants)!

Tillandsia and Raw Cork Fridge Magnets

Ya, know, every time I pass the fridge I think, why haven’t we done tillandsia fridge magnets yet? So today we actually felt like doing it but at first, we had our hands on bottle caps, then thought, nah. The we thought of regular wine corks, then thought, nah (but mostly because someone else already […]