terrarium fail

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SO cute and fun right!?

They had them at a few of the Street of Dreams houses that I loved

BUT my inspiration came from my friend we stayed with in Santa Barbara:

The Supplies:

1. Container  

(my fail: getting a cute container but bottom it too narrow)

2. River Rocks

3. Plant Charcoal

 (my fail: went to 200 stores before I found this- if you live in Portland, Cornell Farms has it)

4. Moss

5. Soil

6. Plants

The Steps:

#1: Rocks 

(my fail: for my container I probably should have put the soil on the bottom)

#2: Charcoal (necessary so that the plants don't mold or smell)

(my fail: the rocks weren't supportive enough as a layer so the charcoal fell through... also I learned later that you can crush up the charcoal and put it in with the soil)

#3: Moss

(my fail: it looks cute now but when the soil went on top it covered a lot of it up)

#4 & #5 Soil & Plants

(my fail: the jar was super hard to plan the succulents in there and I ended up breaking a lot of them...)

Final product

(my fail: you can't really see any of the layers or the plants that well with the top on... )

 I guess for my first time it wasn't THAT bad. Needless to say I will be doing things a little different next time! 

Has anyone else tried to make them? How did it go for you?