Well, I was walking my dog, Odie, around my apartment complex and was going to drop off the trash when we passed the dumpster. I noticed that, just behind the dumpster, there was an old dead shrub lying on the ground. It looked as if it had been pulled from a flower pot and just thrown away at random.Well, to me, this dead plant was an art project waiting to happen. I grabbed the dirt covered shrub and my dog and headed back to my apartment. I was so excited, this was going to make an awesome center piece on my table! I rinsed the dirt off the plant's roots and then turned my oven on and to the the lowest temperature possible. When the oven was hot enough I placed the shrub inside and let in bake, this made sure any bugs inside were dead. I then took it out of the oven after about 10-15 minutes and then proceeded to pull off any loose branches. I took a can of white spray paint, that I had used for a recent sculpture project, and headed to the porch, plant in hand. (I can only imagine how strange I looked to my neighbors.) I began spray painting the dead bush white, but I ran out of spray paint, half way through...so I grabbed my acrylic white and began hand painting, making sure to get in all the small cracks and ridges. After I finished I hung it from my chandelier, upside-down, and let it dry. The next morning I pulled out a glass jar and some teal glass beads and finished my perfect coral center piece! What do ya think?
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