Macrame Memories

Apparently this week should have been titled "Fun with Rope", cause I have been using it on everything.   I found these planters at a garage sale and of course I loved them, but had no idea how or where I would use them.  I brought them home, scrubbed them and then took some fine steel wool and WD-40 to them.  They had little spots of rust here and there that I wanted to get rid of. After that I primed then painted them with a flat black spray paint.

Well, any good person would have stopped there, because they were looking quite good.  I don't exactly fit that bill.  Just so happens, that my lovely mother had given me a large spool of jute rope.  When I asked her  about it's origins, she told  me it was as old as I was .  She used it when she was in her MACRAME phase-- and this just makes me giggle. I can remember having plants hanging in macrame holders in our childhood home.  I even remember a big hoop macrame swing that she had made to hang from our deck.  It was so big I could almost lay down in it.  I would love to have that swing now.  Just reminds me that there is nothing my mom can't do.  If one day I do half of  what she does, I will be elated!

I had to put this rope to use, and since I don't know how to macrame, I decided to weave it around my planters in a basket like form.  Here is the final product.

I have two topiary that I purchased at a garage sale last year that needed a substantial planter and I think these will work just fine. 

The topiary on the left is in its original basket and it looks a little dinky, especially side by side. 

Now I just need to finish the second one. 

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