Umbrella Stand with The Creative Maven

When I saw this umbrella stand in the Ballard Designs catalog, I just had to have it...

... but at $89, there was no way I was going to spend that much on one item!

So, I purchased a 24" galvanized french flower bucket from THIS website.  
(I couldn't find one that big anywhere in real life.)

All I did was spray paint the bucket a sunny yellow (Rustoleum's American Accents Summer Squash).

Then I found these round sponges in the stenciling aisle at my JoAnn Fabric Store.

I used Rustoleum in Blossom White for the quatrefoil pattern.  To get the quatrefoil pattern using sponges, you want to make like two number 8s that cross each other, like this:

And in the end you get this!

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