 As you can see here, this belonged to my great grandfather, McGown, free 1900s. So this dish is probably 130, 140 years old, but again, either it's going to sit in a box wrapped in paper or it's going to be used to display some beautiful plants in my house. So I'm going to take this diamond tip drill, I'm going to try to drill a hole here in the bottom of this dish and hopefully it doesn't crack. I'm not one to, you know, I don't have a China covered, I'm not one to display dishes. These are definitely not anything you'd want to eat out of and I know my children aren't interested in them. So let's do it. So I've got some wet towels kind of stuffed in here and kind of give it some padding so that it's, you know, hopefully won't vibrate too much with the, with the drill bit going on it. I'm going to leave this masking tape on here just to kind of give it something to grab onto and usually I just do a little drilling and add a little water, keep the drill bit from getting too hot. So let's see what happens. Sometimes hard to get going. Get it so I can see I do have a little bit of a divot started here so I'm just going to keep going straight down and hopefully it doesn't crack. I think we're getting very close to breaking through here. I can see like a hairline crack on here that I think was there before so hopefully that's not a weak spot here. So we have, you can see there's starting to be a little bit of a pinhole there. Making some headway. A little bit more drilling. Excellent size drainage hole. Not quite on center but no big deal. So I think this will work really nice for some of my succulents. Well hopefully my mother, grandmother, great grandfather are okay with this. I think they'll be happy that their dishes are going to be used and displayed and enjoyed. So I think I have everything ready here to plant up my succulents now into this dish and I've just taken a piece of coffee filter that I'm going to just place in the bottom here just to cover that drainage hole just so that the dirt doesn't fall through. And this mixture that I have made up here is two parts perlite with one part of the Miracle Grow Cactus mix here. I find that the soil, this cactus soil by itself isn't quite you know really ideal for succulents. It's good to add a little more purelite or vermiculite or sand just to make sure it's really well draining soil. And these are my succulents. I just purchased these in the grocery store about two months ago they've been sitting here waiting for a container to go into so I've just separated them. I've given the roots a little bit of a spritz because they were really super dry and we're going to try and set them up in this dish. I want to give this a bit of a spritz too just to give it a bit of moisture. This seems like a good centerpiece here, this kind of rosetti looking succulent. I'm just going to try and place everything in here and see how it looks and then we'll fill it in with more soil. I'm hoping that this dish is deep enough it's not super super deep so hopefully it works for these. So I find this perlite added to the soil really gives it kind of a nice look as well and I have some of these this gravel here that I purchased at the dollar store that I thought maybe would be nice just to also fill in around the plants here so I'm just going to sprinkle some of this white rock. Okay so there it is all planted up. What do you think? I just think this is such a great way to repurpose some old dishes that you know I've had wrapped up in some old newspaper packed away in the corner in boxes for a couple years ever since my mom passed away and I think you know like I said her and my grandma grandfather should all be really happy to see these dishes back in use again and on display. So hopefully these little succulents will be happy and their new container here under the grow lights. I'm hoping to someday get a setup in my living space upstairs with some grow lights that I can actually display some of these succulents and enjoy them a little bit more. Here is another vintage dish that I drilled a hole in also and if you look very very closely I'm trying to grow some lithop succulents from seed which is a huge challenge but as you can see there is a few little green spots popping up here. So hopefully someday these little lithop seeds will grow and eventually they will look like this one here. So if you have any vintage dishes lying around that you aren't using for anything maybe they will make a good plant or for one of your indoor plants. If you enjoyed watching my video please hit that like button leave a comment and don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss out on future videos coming to the channel. Thank you for watching and happy gardening.