Jewelry and Accessories for Green Thumbs
Exciting news! This holiday season, certain Wearable Planter products will be at the High Museum of Art gift shop. Our items were selected in partnership with Indie Craft Experience to be part of their Handmade at the High selection, along with the work of other local independent designers, makers, and artists. Our items will be available there through the end of the year.
More information about the event is available at www.high.org.
Good news for our Australian friends! We're excited to announce that we have a new stockist, Have You Met Charlie, carrying our planters in Adelaide, South Australia.
Lauren at Have you Met Charlie says: "Charlie is run by 2 local Adelaide designer/makers Lauren/Mintcloud and Bec/Coloured Pears. Charlie mainly sources local designer/makers but look outside locals to source a few unique pieces such as the wonderful Wearable Planters. We strive to be the 'go to' gift destination."
If you're in Adelaide and you want to visit their adorable store in person, they're open every week from Wednesday to Saturday. You can find more information about their store on their website and on facebook.
Planters prototyped in warm grey PLA hold rosemary from our roof garden.
We've written before about prototyping with MakerBot and other home 3D printers over the last two years. For the planters that we sell here on our site and on Etsy, we prefer to use commercial 3D printers like Shapeways and Ponoko, but for prototyping, using a desktop 3D printer better suits our needs. Prints can be made in less than an hour (no waiting for a week for prints!), and I can immediately make changes to file if I see a change that needs to be made.
Printing on the Makerbot Z18.
We've been lucky the last few weeks to have access to a MakerBot Z18, the newest of their series, to prototype some of our new forthcoming planters. Before we've printed on their Thing-o-matic and Replicator 2 Machines. The print quality has improved slightly from the earlier models, which is helpful when prototyping small pieces. The main changes with the newer MakerBots is the interface is much more intuitive to use, and now they're capable of printing much larger pieces.
Made with purple PLA.
Also, these planters were printed in PLA, a plastic made from cornstarch. The material is biodegradable over time, but can warp when exposed to heat, making this material suitable for use for prototyping.
Making and 3D printing on a MakerBot still isn't perfect, but its pretty amazing when you can hold a physical product in your hand that only existed on a computer screen hours before!
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We're excited to announce that we'll be joining Brit+Co at Re:Make in Austin, TX May 3-4. Re:Make will be at the Palmer Events Center in downtown Austin. We'll be there showing you how to create miniature gardens and showing off our new pieces for spring and summer. Come put your cowboy boots on and join us as we take part in a celebration of a new wave of American makers and see the great work that is coming out of the maker movement!
PS: Our friends Matter Inc. and Native Bear will be there, too!
We have great news that we're really excited to share! Our bike planters will be at select Urban Outfitters in their new Without Walls pop-up shops and available on their website this spring. If you've been looking for a chance to check them out in stores before you buy, now is your chance! If your interest is piqued, check them out online at Urban Outfitters and see if they're available in a store near you.
Spring is finally here, and we updated the look of our seed bombs to celebrate! The illustration on the muslin bag depicts three of the flower varieties in the seed mix, Baby’s Breath, Rocket Larkspur, and Purple Coneflower. We also updated the mix of seeds that we use to make our seed bombs, using a mix of annual and perennial wildflower seeds to guarantee you blooms this year and for years to come. The growing regions for this seed mix are regions 1-10, so they are able to grow in most regions of the US. If you’re looking for a quick way to plant some seeds or need a gift for a green thumb, the seed bombs are available in our shop.
