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Writer's pictureDeb Bodine

10. Who needs a green thumb?!


Shower curtain forest. Check.

Furry forest floor. Check.

White rack camouflaged with floral tape. Check.

So what's next? Time to get three dimensional.


I mentioned already the green and gold valence that is planned for above the play area to mask the upper shelf. The goal is to create the ambiance of a green canopy over the forest. But first I had a lot of gardening to do! I had already purchased the plants I needed, now I had to dig in!



I was not blessed with a green thumb, but even I know real plants will not flourish in a dark closet. So when it came time to dress up that ugly white rack to blend in with the fairy forest backdrop, I knew genuine fake was the way to go. From various online sources, I had purchased inexpensive packages of trailing ivy and pink and purple wisteria, to mimic the hanging flowers illustrated on the tapestry. A couple of the 20 foot ivy lengths had little fairy lights already wound through them, and in hindsight, I should have selected more of the pre-lit greenery. C'est la vie.



Because of the grill nature of the shelving, I figured weaving the trailing plants in and out of the wiring would be pretty straightforward. And it was, sort of. I did learn a valuable lesson however. I was struggling getting the strand through without stripping the foliage. Weaving through my final length of ivy, with loose leaves and blossoms fluttering to the floor around my feet, that damn light bulb in my brain (that is obviously short-circuiting) lit up again, this time a little too late to matter. The phony ivy is constructed to mimic the real plants. (Clever!) Hence the leaves are positioned on an angle where they meet the stem, like a V. It wasn't until my last strand that I questioned why I was feeding the strands through backward. I should have been putting the tip of the V first, allowing the leaves to fold back against the stem making the action more streamlined. Instead, I was doing the opposite, and catching every damn leaf on the wiring, as well as the surrounding foliage. I'm not proud of that brain blip, but maybe someone else can benefit from this tidbit of trivia.




I am sure I can find another use for the lost foliage before this project is completed!







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