Hooray horray, DIY time! Over the past few months, I have teamed up with Volkswagen for several creative projects like a sunglasses case for a road trip and this time, it is something for the plant lovers among you.

For this tutorial, you won’t need many supplies and it is rather an inspirational post or a mini project than a complicated DIY. Here we go:

Materials for Making Your Own Planter:

What you need:
– A diecast transporter car
– Some soil
– Tiny plants and cacti
– A spoon for filling the soil onto the car’s loading space
– Wooden skewers for handling the cacti

DIY Inspiration: Mini Car Planter Project:

First of all, use the spoon or your hands to fill the diecast transporter’s car with some soil.

Next, use the wooden skewers to carefully relocate the cacti (awesome idea by my plant queen Anja of Aentschies Blog).

Put everything into the soil and use your fingers to slightly press it down. Use plants without long roots, because otherwise, they won’t have enough space.

Take a tiny pipette to carefully moisten your plants if needed.




Tadaaa, that’s it, you are done! The planter surely won’t serve as a permanent home for your
plants, because it simply does not provide enough space for the plants
to keep on growing, but it is a great (housewarming) gift idea or
temporary fun decor for your own home.

The perfect spot for my car planter is between all those huge white plant pots, such a bright pop of color and little fun decor element which makes me smile.

DIY Bloggers for Volkswagen:

Are you curious about more awesome car-related tutorials? Volkswagen is currently also working with several other bloggers who are all sharing their DIYs on a group pinboard on Pinterest:

>>> ‘DIY Bloggers for Volkswagen’ board on Pinterest

Most of the DIYs are great, even when you don’t own a car, so take a look and see for yourself which fun projects you can discover over there!
Have fun and happy day!
Lu

P.S.: As you can see, this blogpost was written in cooperation with Volkswagen and is a sponsored post. Of course, my opinion is my own and all contents are created by me.

Merken

[Werbung:] Hello everyone, it’s time for a new DIY project! Over the past several months, I have created different DIYs and fun blogposts with my partner OTTO and today it’s time for a new edition.

As you may have heard, one if this year’s trend colors is Pantone Rose Quartz and thus, OTTO and I wanted to create a project in this color.

So in this blogpost, you’ll be seeing how to make a pretty geometrical lampshade with paper. Let’s go:

My new white Nightstands:

When we started our current cooperation project, I was allowed to choose several pieces of furniture like two bright yellow chairs, a chest of drawers and also new white nightstands which I built together myself with the help of my boyfriend to make it even more fun.

For several years, I have been owning a set of nightstands which I didn’t like anymore. But because they were still in an acceptable condition, I kept them. Now for this project, I finally decided on a pair of bright new white nightstands with three drawers each.

Because I didn’t like the metallic knobs, I bought myself some wooden ones.



Using spray paint, I turned them white so that they fit the overall look of the nightstands and I used them as a substitute for the silver metal ones.


So much better with the new knobs so that it fits my taste and style. Now as the nightstands are ready, on to the the next step: the DIY project for geometrical paper bedside lampshades:

Make Your own Geometrical Paper Bedside Lampshades:

What you need:
– A pair of  lampshade frameworks
– Rose-colored thin cardboard or thick paper
– Scissors, double-sided tape, measuring tape, a pencil
– A rolling cutter (optional)

Measure the height of your lampshade frameworks. Mine are 20cm high.

Next, mark the hight on paper / cardboard and add 5 additional centimeters for later folding over the endings.

In my case, I thus marked and cut paper stripes which are 25cm long and 1cm wide.


Next, take your double-sided tape and put pieces to the endings of the stripes.



Use the taped endings to attach the paper or cardboard stripes to the framework.


When you are done, use scissors to neatly cut off the edges.

Tadaaaa!

Pantone Rose Quartz Lampshades:

Here we are, done with this easy and pretty project.




As you can see, my paper lampshades are a perfect fit for my room and bed corner. So airy and such a nice color.

Pantone Rose Quartz Living Inspiration on Pinterest:

Do you need even more inspiration? To find more projects and interior ideas in Pantone rose quartz, have a look at the Pantone Rose Quartz group board on Pinterest that OTTO, 23qm² Stil, Tastesheriff and I are curating. So much fun!

Lu

P.S.: As you can see, this blogpost was written in cooperation with
OTTO.de and is a sponsored post. Of course, my opinion is my own and all
contents are created myself.

Merken