How to make a terrarium

I had a spare lightbulb that I had hollowed out left over from another project so I made it into a terrarium for my mum for Christmas.

It's very easy to make, you hollow out a lightbulb, then add regular soil, then stone or bark (I used bark) that has a load of moss on it. A dramatic rock adds good zen effect too - I used a chip of slate stolen from the garden centre.

No special tools required, though I used a few cotton buds to clean up the inside after all the soil had gone in.

Inpsiration from Instructables, one of the fewer and fewer remaining websites that bring me some form of joy.



The other good thing about this is that I still don't really know what it is. I guess the nearest analogy is a pot plant, but it's much cooler than a pot plant.