Re-purposing: Teapot
 

When I came acrosss this gorgeous antique but badly damaged teapot my first thought was to break it up for mosiacs to bling my birdhouse. But then I decided to try it out as an eccentric planter for my nastursum seedlings. I fill ed ith with compost and planted the seedling, then I tipped it over as if it was pouring because this allows the excess water to drain off down the spout. Lastly I just hooked the lid over the broken handle. I will add more pics as they grow and will probably place it in the cottage garden among the other flowers digging a depression in the soil to support it in this position.

Quirky, unique, free and green!

Update: Here is the teapot with thriving nastusums in my garden.

from Admin
 

Great use of your teapot, unapam!

Ooh, I feel a song coming on...

"I'm a little teapot, short and stout
Here is my handle, here is my spout..."

teapot
 

LOL I love it! and the picture...although for mine it should read:

"I'm a little teapot
short and stout
Don't have a handle
but don't throw me out!"

I got the idea from a post on JT recently when someone was giving away teapots without lids. Another good use for them is to use to water /feed houseplants.
Warning: I am planning to post a whole host of pics of things I have repurposed. It seems that Angie1 was inspired by me to do the rocking chairs which gives me a nice warm green feeling. They turned out great. They were just the same as mine to start with (having been in the weather for ages and same design) but look how different they turned out! Fantastic....Methinks I have been ousted as the Queen of Rockin' Chairs! LOL

We look forward to seeing the fruits of your labour, unapam.

Regards
Chris P
Admin

tea pot
 

hi unapam,
great work on the teapot. you'll laugh now but i absolutly love my garden and im always doing things with nice pots just a little tip to share if your planting stuff in a pot with no drainage just pop some tinfoil in the end crumple it up ad a thin layer of small pebbles (decorative stones for gardens)fill with soil and plant your seeds .it works great and no need to water these much in the hot summer as the water is retained in the tinfoil and it keeps the soil miost for most of the summer....i have before and after pics of my back garden i sould post them when i jioned jt i posted a wanted ad for shed materiel but had no luck. but i found lots of bits and pieces i was looking for local. i put up a shed for 100 euros made totally from recycled wood the only thing i bought was felt for the roof ill post them later to give every1 a look .you are the inspiration you should get jumbletowner of the year award!!!!!!!!! kind regards angie1

ha ha
 

ha ha thats a great use for a tea pot, my mam past away recently and she collected tea pots... we didnt know what to do with them (may appear on JT)
but thats a really good idea i like it......

nice pic chris is that a real life likeness lol lol

from Admin
 

Some might say there is a passing resemblance... :)

Regards
Chris P
Admin

Repurposing: Update on teapot planter
 

The teapot planter is in place and the nastursums are thriving.

hey it looks great loads of flowers, , i have nasturtiums in my garden but no flowers yet, :(

teapot
 

congrats love u rchange love antiques and flowers my self .you can eat those flowers look good in salads. not eaten them well done love people that can see beyond how an object looks and change it. well done.

Great idea Unapam.

Old Teapot
 

Love your idea for your teapot. Saw a programme recently with Franc who is the wedding planner from cork. He says that the " In" thing at the moment for weddings is to use old Teapots, old china cups etc..to put flowers in as center pieces on the tables. You could put some oasis into the cup or teapot and then your dried or fresh flowers. Another tip was on TV3 one morning where the presenter taped sellotape over the rim of whatever they were planning to put the flowers in overlapping the tape to make slots in order to put the flowers in and keep them upright. It worked very well. Good luck with the projects.