I’d buy this, but then it would die and I’d feel foolish.
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I saw some of these on Fab.com and investigated making my own. I discovered the artist has some with other little model-railroad-size figures that are risque (including female and/or male flashers; strippers; people mooning; and more (or should I write less?)). I found some of the risque figures were offered on eBay. (See Item number 281008979532 for people mooning.)
Buy it! Or make a Meow-arium.
Yes Char, I want to make my own, what plants do you use? what base (pebbles?) etc. I have many miniature figures, non of them risqué but I can work around that. Thanks nicole
Do you think the cat will stay inside the terrarium? How large? Should there be fish in it?
Typically, I didn’t make one after all (yet?). A coworker warned if I used real plants and soil a real bug or two might join the scene so I became discouraged. I did buy a couple bags of rocks and pebbles from a dollar store and gathered faux ferns and faux moss (not through procrastination ). I already had a glass jar without a lid from a thrift store.
As for size, I would make sure the width of the mouth of the jar allowed your hand to easily reach in and out. (Creating pin-size art with a tweezer and magnifier monocle is not a hobby I’d enjoy. ) But Better Homes & Gardens offers a how-to video: http://www.bhg.com/gardening/houseplants/care/make-a-terrarium/
My recovering feral cat Lily hides so she would not enjoy living in a glass house, regardless whether it is a fishbowl, empty or not. Maybe you really desire an aquarium?
Nicole, try reindeer moss from Michaels or a florist, it only looks alive……
Also see twigterrariums.com saw them at the Philadelphia flower show, really beautiful. I’ve made any number of these and they are really fun. Yes, the moss will die eventually but you can just replace it every year or so. I have a jungle one with gorillas, giraffes, lions, etc. Yes, they all live happily together in my terrarium…..
It’s pretty had to kill moss. Or you could get a bromelaid, they grow on AIR. Takes a special talent to kill them. I say GO FOR IT.
I had a bromeliad in my bathroom. It thrived just on moisture from the shower. But when I went on vacation for two weeks it died.
I used to have terrariums when i lived in Chicago. I’d buy old fish tanks on Maxwell st. (ahhhh, good old Maxwell St. at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning. Nostalgia alert!) And i’d find great miniature stuff in RR enthusiasm hobby shops and little plants growing in the cracks of sidewalks, etc. Plants that grow in hostile environments are ever so hardy. We used to have a rule to buy plants only at Woolworths. Anything gown in a green house would die immediately upon being brought home.
Does anyone remember the terrariums in the huge 5 gallon water bottles? Some were the glass ones; some, the plastic bottles. My skin is too acid to have a happy relationship with plants. I kill them on a regular basis. My poor pine tree is on its last branches. It needs repotting. It’s a Star pine given to me by (oh, sigh) a man I dated for a short time. He had a ‘green’ body! Not just a green thumb. Wow, he could make things grow. He made bad jokes about being a Japanese gardner. Well, he was half Japanese and I wonder why my favorite men where ones I couldn’t…never mind, I digress, anyway, down nostalgia lane. . This is a pretty jar. Thanks, Nicole.
I love to marvel at things like this but to have to maintain or even construct one, other than the first one just to prove I could do it, is not quite me. I love how inventive people are.