Are you ready kids?
Aye-aye captain.
I can’t hear you…
Aye-aye captain!
OooooOOooo Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?
That’s quite enough of that… I wanted to make something fun for my daughter as a Christmas pressie for her Uni flat and stumbled across a planter in the shape of Spongebob Squarepants house on Thingiverse and thought that would be a good idea. Sadly, I can’t remember which one I used and there are several on there if you search.
To put in the top, I ordered a pack of Ikea fake plants called Fejka and then took measurements of the pot size.
Once I had that worked out I was able to edit the mesh I’d downloaded so it would fit into the print. I also removed the chimney as I didn’t want that printing at the same time. My original plan was to print that seperatly and paint it before gluing into place but I ended up making one from scratch out of metal tubing and Milliput.
I made the insides a bit deeper 
and removed the chimney
Then I kicked off the print.
And watched it print.
And it kept printing.
And still it printed.
Until it finally finished over TWO DAYS LATER!
I’d made a bit of a rookie error and not adjusted the print setting much. I wanted the insides to be quite rigid as it may end up with a real plant in it but I may have not worked out my setting properly. Still, it worked out well without any problems with the print.
It worked out fine in the end but needed sanding and cleaning up.
To paint it, I first primed it then sprayed it yellow. I didn’t like the solid yellow so tried orange. I didn’t like solid orange so sprayed it from above to get a zenithial yellow/orange combo.
The final piece came out well, but I keep seeing little things I wish I’d spotted when I was sanding it but you don’t notice unless you squint up close.