Flower pot vs girl video

WYOMING, MI -- A viral Facebook video showing two women swiping several flower pots from a Wyoming home has led several shops to donate flower replacements.

"We didn't think it would go viral," said Gely Miranda, daughter of theft victim Patricia Quinones.

Circulation of the May 29 surveillance camera video, both on social media and news sites, led to the identification of the women on Thursday, May

The case will be reviewed by Kent County prosecutors for potential charges.

Since the video was posted, three flower shops and boutiques have stepped forward to offer Quinones new flowers. Eastern Floral, The Boutique Gardener and Flowerland have already sent flowers or plan to aid Quinones, according to Miranda.

The swiped flowers were returned to Quinones by police, but Miranda said the alleged thieves apparently had stacked the pots on each other and the flowers essentially were ruined.

The pots were taken in the early morning hours of May 29, sometime before 6 a.m., at the residence on Longstreet Avenue SW.

Miranda and her mother were thankful for the donations.

Miranda said she's not sure why the theft struck such a chord with those who viewed it, but she thinks it's because "porch" thefts are becoming increasingly common and it could happen to anyone.

twitter announced today that it will be removing its implementation of stories dubbed &#;fleets.&#; the feature was either loved or hated by twitter users since its initial release last year.

this short-lived feature, which was released in november of last year, will be removed on august 3. twitter acknowledged the controversial nature of the snapchat/instagram clone with the farewell tweet. notably, there was no fleet from the main twitter account announcing the departure of the feature, only a standard tweet.

in the goodbye, the company said it is working on &#;new stuff.&#; one can hope that they add the ability to edit tweets, in addition to the new edit audience and monetization features.

in a more detailed blog post, twitter shared that it hoped fleets would make people more comfortable posting onto twitter. as fleets disappear, some of the fleet creation features, like gifs and stickers, will be implemented into the standard tweets composer.

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If you&#;ve seen flower pot people before, you know just how adorable they can be. This little polka dot upcycled flower pot girl is one of my favorite new additions to the garden. It&#;s surprisingly easy to make and makes a lovely decoration for inside or outside. Make several to decorate your patio, deck, or garden. Of course, they are also a wonderful gift!

Upcycled Flower Pot Girl

Seriously, look how absolutely adorable this turned out! I am so in love with the look that flower pot people give in my garden. This year, I want to work on adding a whole family to my front porch, and this is the beginning. I used this great pink paint and added white polka dots, but you can paint yours any color. I thought she would look great against my otherwise plain deck. I loved the pop of color.

Since flower pots are already designed to go in the garden outside, I know they will stand up under different weather and everyday wear and tear. You can make your flower pot have tons of personality with different looks and additions, or just have a basic person with a simple smile. Use your imagination and have fun making one or more for your garden.

While this one is great for year-round, you might also want to bookmark my flower pot people scarecrow for this fall. It&#;s adorable with the Halloween and Thanksgiving themes!

What Paint is Best for Clay Pots?

When you are working on this project, you&#;ll want a great paint that is designed for terra cotta. In the past, I&#;ve found that acrylic works great on these types of projects.

For a faster application, spray paint is also a good choice on clay pots. Just remember, that for this project, you&#;ll want just a bit more precision in the polka dots and around the edges. So, if using spray paint, you&#;ll add those details after the rest is in place.

If you plan to leave these outside all the time, you may want to apply a protective layer or sealant. There are many sealants in the paint section of your hardware store, but you can also just grab good old fashioned Mod Podge and use it on the flower pot instead. A protective layer helps your girl look great for years instead of just a few days.

How do I Secure The Arms So They Won&#;t Fall Off?

You want to use a heavy-duty glue when you are securing the arms. This is so the arms do not fall off when the glue dries. You&#;ll thread the rope through the smaller flower pots, but secure it to the larger with glue.

My trusty hot glue gun and hot glue are always handy for projects like this one. It is affordable, already on hand, and always easy to access more glue for it.

If you prefer, you can pick up a heavy-duty craft glue like E which typically will secure something like this for the longterm. Another option I keep on hand is Gorilla Glue. It is a great brand that really stands the test of time on craft projects.

Can I Plant Real Flowers In This?

Yes! That is part of the beauty of this design. You can still add soil to the top flower pot and fill it with flowers, or even vegetables. I love the idea of creating a few of these in different colors for each herb I want to grow.

You could paint one purple for lavender, green for mint, red for basil, blue for thyme, and so on! Get creative and make a ton of these little flower pot people in all styles and use them instead of just a basic flower pot to grow a little herb garden on your porch!

Tip: If you want to plant something that will come back year after year, check out this list of perennial flowers that will bloom for years. I love planting once and not having to worry about it for a few years!

Supplies Needed

How to Make a Flower Pot Girl

To begin, you will paint your flower pots the color you desire. I started with this nice bright pink.

Paint the two small flower pots completely red on the outside, then one of the larger flower pots completely red, and one only paint the rim of the flower pot.

Set aside the flower pots to dry.

Now, you will use the pencil eraser or a round hard-bristled paintbrush and dip into the white paint to add polka dots on the painted areas of the pots.

Once all the pots are painted, set them aside to dry the polka dots.

When the paint is dry, you will use a paint pen to draw on the face of your flower pot that wasn&#;t fully painted.

Now, glue the ribbon just along the edge of the rim of that flower pot.

Next, you will glue the two larger flower pots together so that the fully painted one is upside down on the bottom, and the one with the face is open on top.

Now, string the rope through the hole in the bottom of one of the small flower pots, tying it in a knot to stay secure on the inside of the pot. String the other end of that rope through the inside of the other pot, and secure with a knot and glue.

Next, you will attach the arms to the back of the flower pot girl by gluing the rope along the seam of the two pots.

Add a length of beads around the middle of the flower pot where they connect for a necklace.

Fill the top with real or artificial flowers.

Display in your home on a windowsill or outside in your garden.

Have more flower pots to use? Check out this flower pot ladybug, flower pot frog, and this flower planter bee decoration for the garden. So many cute ideas to add a bit of fun character to your space! For indoors, you might like this pretty little flower pot lighthouse decoration. Such a cute idea!

Crafter&#;s Tip

If you want to skip the painting part of this project, you can just add small details and embellishments to the flower pots. I have used these cute face stickers in the past. You can also buy various flower pots in different colors already so all you have to do is assemble your person.

Finished Project Gallery

For other uses, see Flowerpot Men (disambiguation).

For other uses of the names "Bill and Ben", see Bill and Ben.

Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBCtelevision, first transmitted in , and repeated regularly for more than twenty years.^[2] A reboot of the show called Bill and Ben was produced in ^[3]

Original series[edit]

Originally, the programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled Watch with Mother, featuring a different programme each weekday, most of them involving string puppets. The Flower Pot Men was the story of Bill and Ben, two little men made of flower pots who lived at the bottom of an English suburban garden. The characters were devised by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird in the s.^[4][5] These characters should not be confused for another set of Bill and Ben characters featured on Lingstrom's earlier radio show Listen with Mother, initially broadcast in Rights to the stories were later sold to Ben Productions, successfully transferring the radio programme to television^{[dubious &#; discuss]}. The puppeteers were Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson. The voices and other noises were produced by Peter Hawkins, Gladys Whitred and Julia Williams. The narration in all episodes was done by Maria Bird.

The plot changed little in each episode and always took place in a garden, behind a potting shed. A third character, Little Weed, of indeterminate species resembling either a sunflower or a dandelion with a smiling face, was shown growing between two large flowerpots. The three were also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach and, in one particular episode, the trio met a faintly mysterious character made out of potatoes, Dan the potato man. Typically, while the "man who worked in the garden" would be away eating lunch, the two Flower Pot Men, Bill and Ben, would emerge from their pots. After a minor adventure, a slight mishap would occur, for which someone would then take the blame: "Which of these two flower pot men, was it Bill or was it Ben?" the narrator would trill in a quavering soprano; the culprit would then confess, before the gardener's footsteps would be heard coming up the garden path; the Flower Pot Men then would vanish into their pots and the "Goodbye" screen would appear. The final punch-line was, "..and I think the little house knew something about it; don't you?".

The Flower Pot Men spoke their own, highly inflected version of English, called Oddle Poddle, invented by prolific voice artist Peter Hawkins (who also provided speech for the daleks in Doctor Who and Captain Pugwash). "Ickle-kickle", for instance, was an icicle and Ben would say "Flobabdob!".^[3] At the end of each adventure, they would say bye-bye to each other and to the Little Weed – "Babap, Ickle Weed!" – to which the Weed would inevitably reply, with tremulous cadence, "Weeeeeeeeeeed!". This language, like that of the Teletubbies' in , was criticised for hindering children from learning proper English.^[3]

Series[edit]

On 4 January , a different colored series ^[6] named Bill and Ben began on CBBC on BBC Two, this time involving stop-motion animation, 35mm film style and full colour, and made by Cosgrove Hall Films with a team of ten animators.^[7] This show features the voices of John Thomson (who also serves as the narrator), Jimmy Hibbert, and Eve Karpf.^[7] The series aired in the Republic of Ireland on RTEjr and formerly aired on CBeebies in –

Many additions were implemented:

• A mean female rosebush with two talking buds in the neighbour's garden named Rose.
• A mischievous female prickly plant named Thistle.
• A female magpie named Pry, obsessed by shiny treasure, often just every bottle cap.
• A male hedgehog named Boo.
• A tortoise named Slowcoach remains in the series, with few changes to his characteristics. He gets angry at Bill & Ben for ruining his things, but mostly, for messing around.
• A male frog named Tad.
• A female squirrel named Scamper.
• A male baby squirrel named Scuff. He is Scamper's baby nephew.
• A female spider named Whimsy.
• A male earthworm named Whoops.
• A male talking tomato named Ketchup.
• Another male tortoise called Lightning. He is Slowcoach's brother.
• Bill and Ben's voice tones have switched; Bill now has the deep-toned voice, while Ben now has the high-toned voice.
• Weed no longer just says her name; she speaks normal English, playing an "earth mother" role to Bill and Ben and often assisting them.

Comics[edit]

The show was the basis for a comic strip of the same name in the children's magazine Robin.^[8]

Episodes[edit]

Flower Pot Men (–)[edit]

1. "Seeds" (18 December )
2. "Musical Vegetables" (25 December )
3. "Cabbages" (1 January )
4. "The Potato Man" (8 January )
5. "Tiny Men" (15 January )
6. "Stickmen" (22 January )
7. "Shavings Men" (29 January )
8. "Stilts" (5 February )
9. "Steamroller" (12 February )
10. "Scarecrow" (19 February )
11. "Slowcoach Flies" (26 February )
12. "Mud Pies" (5 March )
13. "Bath in Hat" (12 March )
14. "Babies" (19 March )
15. "Babies Grow Up" (26 March )
16. "Live Chicks" (2 April )
17. "Icicles" (9 April )
18. "Boot Race" (16 April )
19. "Acrobats" (22 April )
20. "Bellows" (29 April )
21. "Water Lilies" (6 May )
22. "Turnip Faces" (13 May )
23. "Umbrella" (20 May )
24. "Fairy Queen" (27 May )
25. "Weathercock" (3 June )
26. "Flying Boots" (10 June )

Bill and Ben series 1 (–)[edit]

Bill and Ben series 2 (–)[edit]

UK VHS and DVD releases[edit]

Controversy[edit]

The programme is unrelated to another set of characters called Bill and Ben, which have been confused with the Flower Pot Men, including in the initial versions of two obituaries of retired headteacher Hilda Brabban, published in The Independent and BBC's in-house magazine Ariel respectively, and also in Bills, a episode of the BBC panel show QI hosted by Stephen Fry.^[9][10] All three sources later corrected their statements. Brabban sold three stories about a Bill and Ben to the BBC in the 's; but other than their names, they bore no resemblance to the Flower Pot Men.^[11][12][13] Brabban's stories were broadcast on the radio programme Listen with Mother in ; the Bill and Ben of the Flower Pot Men were first seen on the television programme Watch with Mother in Both programmes were produced by Freda Lingstrom. During her later life Brabban suffered a stroke and later maintained she did invent the characters used in the BBC series; this prompted lawyers, acting on behalf of the estate of the show's creator, Freda Lingstrom, to threaten Brabban with litigation if she appeared on television to propagate this claim.^[14]

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