Set up a fern-focused vignette bedside. Using acrylic crafts paint, stamp or paint fiddlehead ferns across the apron of a table. Feature brackens on a lamp base. To make it, first select a plain pottery vase, then use glass paint to stencil the design. A crafts-store kit will help you turn it into a lamp. (Lamp stores will also do this for a fee.)

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Stencils can be applied to fabric as well; use fabric paints to put a border on a bureau scarf or a curtain hem.