Well......WOW. Double WOW in fact. Those are great!
The red "pops", but I sure love the blue!

hugs, Karen

Beautiful. Love the brilliant colors.

Kathy

I love the red, and I meant to tell you before :D And it reminds me of myself and all the picture frames I collected, and kept bringing home, and painting black, hehe! My husband kept asking me how many do you need? I said I'll know when there's enough..so I covered my whole wall with all sizes of black frames, and everyone loves it :D
The license plate letters spelling red is just the right touch,too.
kudzu

What wonderful transformations! I just love the one with license plate letters. Where do you get your license plates? I'm thinking of all your amazing bird houses too.
kathy

These all look really nice. I love them all and I really like the plant you have in the red california one. You must have a really nice looking garden!
(How many times can I say really...)lol!

Beautiful!!!

More lovely pots! The license red one is great. Now you have a RED license to work with!
Vickie

'eh, Linda? Do you think you can make your pics any BIGGER??

ROFL I could help myself!

They are BEAUTIFUL! Like the others, I LOVE the red ones. Though the blues are pretty snazzy, tooooo!

So when are you gonna start mosaicing???

Sweet Linda,

What is your technique for painting 'ceramic'? What kind of paint? What kind of sealer (if any)? I am looking at the Oriental piece in paticular. How'd you do that one?

Susie

These are all so beautiful!! I intend to have a lot of container gardens this year. You're an inspiration!!

Thanks for the nice comments.

The first brown/red pot is made of that nasty resin material from China. The brown was chipping off and it was white in spots. I used red oil based industrial paint and just brushed it on the high spots. This can of red industrial paint showed up in a dumpster a couple of years ago. It never seems to run out and I painted 5 more large pots with it yesterday. Think I need to start on yellow soon, lol.

The second pot is styrofoam with a thin plastic coating and the third is one of those thick looking hollow plastic pots. I sanded and primed them with Zinsser primer and painted with dark blue Sherwin Williams exterior gloss.

The chinese pot is ceramic. Although it wasn't shiny, I sanded it and primed it with Zinnser, then used the same blue and left the little design on top unpainted.

The two galvanized pots were washed and painted with one coat of industrial oil base paint.

There is no sealer on any of these. I use exterior products, so they hold up really well, Just sand them like you sand wood when painting, clean the dust off, prime and paint. Let it dry a day or two before planting and watering.

Susie, No technique, just sand, prime and paint everything the same way. It always seems to work. (exterior products!!)

Kudzu, You know that when you paint everything the same color, it all goes together no matter what it is, lol.

Charmo, No, I don't 'really' have a nice looking garden. I just run around in circles and never really get anywhere with it, lol.

Kathy, Email me and I'll give you license plate guy's email address.

Cait, I'll try to figure out how to make them even bigger, and if I knew how to do it, this message could be bigger too! I thought the license plates WERE mosaicing, lol!! Thanks again everyone

You are "THE CONTAINER POT' BOMB" Linda!!!!!

It will all come together some day. My back yard looks like a construction site. I wait on Hubs to start the hardscape projects and then I become an assistant. He has been working so much and it has been rainy, the weeds are gettin' fat and happy. But my hope never ceases that it will be a lovely courtyard garden some day. Or I could just be deluded. susie

What a great job you did on all of them! Love the red!

Ahhh, lindas&s...I see your pots and think "California Sunshine!" Never been in the CA s.s. ...but that's got to be what it feels like! Love 'em, love 'em! And, yes, your license plates are mosaic! Great saves & great pots! Jeanne S.

Linda,

Your stuff is always amazing. That's some great red paint!!
I've never heard of Zinsser primer where do you get it??
Keep those pictures comming..."All the better to see them my dearie"!! LOL!

I love everything
I am running out of adjectives
to let everyone know how much I
enjoy all these beautiful creations.
Especially loved the red tub with
the succulents!

Sylvia

Hi Bright, The Zinsser is available at HD and Lowes, and most likely Walmart and Ace. You can see what it looks like on the link below. It's $16 to $17 a gallon and doesn't go on sale much, but shows up in the oops paint sometimes, due to mis tinting or dents. I don't have it tinted. Habitat ReStores could have some. It says that sanding isn't necessary, but I sand everything. I use it under latex paint. The oil based industrial paint covers and sticks to just about anything without primer. Linda

Here is a link that might be useful: Zinsser primer

Well, I love all the pots...but my fav is the red one with the license plate deco on it.....but then I love tins.

June