Remember those planters? Goodbye plain old wood; hello to my new obsession: stenciling.

It all began when I read about textile designer Lena Corwin in Domino magazine this past year. Inspired by her style, I promptly purchased her new book, Printing by Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils and Silk Screens. For my first project from its pages, I stenciled our new planters to mimic our view. Voila! Let the stenciling frenzy begin…