August 2012 ~ Fantastic Creative Mind

Living in big city make many people don't have chance to living in home with big yard. So for people who don't chance to live in big house, only live in flat or apartment and want to have their own garden even in small space then try to have mini garden. If our apartment has balcony then it is amazing because we can make our mini garden in balcony but if don't have that balcony so we have to make mini garden inside home. How to bring mini garden inside home? Just try to make your own terrarium. What is terrarium?

Terrarium is the art of growing miniature plants to create natural ecosystems which typically use glass containers. Terrarium can be made in various sizes. Nature is what makes it very practical to be stored indoors. So even though our house is narrow and there is no yard, we can still have interaction with nature in everyday life.

Terrarium could be analogous as a mini ecosystem. So by creating and studying the workings of natural ecosystems, our understanding of the workings of nature as a whole can be awakened by itself. Our knowledge of how to care for nature is qualified will be honed by natural terrarium as we take care of what we have.

By creating a terrarium we can reduce indoor pollution, improving the function of micro-climate, also get a fresh outlook and inner satisfaction when care, which of course is very beneficial for health of body and soul, so the quality of our lives will be a little better.

Another thing that makes terrarium unique is the container. In every part of our life like every object made by plastic the process of formation and processing of waste is still very burdensome nature. But terrarium usually using glass as the container. The use of glass instead of plastic, of course be a breath of fresh air for nature, because this material is more environmentally friendly than plastic on everything. Is even more fun is that we can use containers such as bottles of jam used to make terrarium. That way, we have extended the life and increase the function of these materials before recycling.

Here are some beautiful photo collection of terrarium

Talking about art, talking about shape, texture, color and out look. Then talking about egg? How to make it become art? Don't thinking about omelet but thinking about egg shell. Egg shell can be paint into beautiful painting, substance for painting, decorative the ornament and craved. How do they will look like? Since art is part of home house and home decoration then I will put the topic of art in here too. I like art and DIY stuff, maybe someday I will make art blog. Ok.. Let see some beautiful art from egg.

1. Egg painting

There are a lot of egg painting artist around the world. For example in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia there is an artist who paint egg become beautiful art which have Balinese sense. He is I Ketut Wikarta, before he created egg painting with ostrich eggs but he said it is become protected by government so he change the material from ostrich eggs to wooden which be formed into egg. Here some his beautiful egg arts.

2. Painting made from egg shells

It is different with egg painting, on egg painting the artist paint in egg shell but painting from egg shell is using egg shells as the material of painting. There are a lot of artist from Indonesia who paint with egg shells, the famous one Teguh Joko Dwiyono and Morris A Siregar. Here are some example of painting made from egg shells.

3. Egg shell carving

Famous artist which made me inspired to write post about egg art are Gary LeMaster and Franc Grom. Art eggs are very beautiful and very hard to make something like this. An artist who work with eggs must be very patient and persistent, and very creative. You need to be constantly careful to avoid cracking the eggs, then you have from the beginning. This art is very popular in European countries. Course and from Europe are the best artists with eggs. Here are some carved of egg shell.