A while ago I made a kind of free-form crochet succulent sculpture. At the time I was super inspired by amigurumi and food and plants that were made out of non food and non plant materials. I still love things that look like something which they are not. Anyway, this little plush thing has been beating around various cupboards until I had a realization. I am terrible at house plants.
I try to keep some houseplants. I had a succulent display on my desk for a short while until I transitioned to work from home. Once I had that plant at home it died superfast. So, I decided to pot up my plush crochet sculpture as a replacement for an office succulent. All this really entailed was carving up a left-over Styrofoam ball from a Christmas ornaments project, cutting and gluing some felt, and cleaning up a used tiny succulent pot from a long deceased house plant. Voila! a desk plant/house plant I can’t kill!