My children love creating crafts that will last forever. We used a planter found in the craft store to fashion a lasting and inexpensive holy water font for our front hall.
This photo below shows the planter we purchased for $2.99. (Similar planters in gold and stamped with grape vines were only $1.99):
Notice the detail in the back, making the planter easy to hang just about anywhere:
With a few simple embellishments, we had an attractive holy water font to honor Our Lady during May and beyond:
Depending on the image and decorations, we could make fonts like this to give as gifts or to celebrate any Feast or liturgical season. The feast of the Sacred Heart, for example, will be here before we know it. I can imagine this font done in reds with a picture of Our Lord in the center.
Margaret (8), loved the idea of making a planter, so she used a bit of floral foam to create a permanent shrine for her shelf:
Tomorrow, we will try filling one with fresh rhododendrons and irises from our garden!
Alice -- you always have the BEST ideas. Can I come live with you for 6 months or so and see if it rubs off?
Posted by: Mary G in Greenville | May 29, 2006 at 06:15 AM
Absolutely, Mary! That way I'll learn some real creativity from a true knitting artist!
Posted by: Alice | May 29, 2006 at 09:00 AM
Beatiful, Alice! I've been looking for a font for our home and now I've just found it! :)
Posted by: Dawn | May 29, 2006 at 08:07 PM
Alice, how do you do it?!? I am always amazed at the pretty and meaningful things that I see at Cottage Blessings.
At the ends of my pregnancies, (unfortunately) I grow grumpy and self absorbed. You, however, are still thinking of ways to honor our Lord and Lady. God Bless your sweet heart!
Posted by: Rebecca | May 29, 2006 at 10:15 PM
Dawn and Rebecca, thank you! Rebecca, what a sweetie you are--you couldn't be grumpy or self absorbed if you tried!
Posted by: Alice | May 30, 2006 at 08:52 AM
Oh Alice! You have such a special way of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary! I love the way you "see" things...makes me want a new pair of eyes ;o) LOL!
Posted by: Donna Marie | May 30, 2006 at 10:19 PM
I Love it, love it, love it!!! Thank you for this wonderful craft. I hope we can make this today. Happy Feast Day.
Posted by: Ruth | February 11, 2007 at 07:47 AM