A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat The new stepping stone I made!

If you remember(maybe you don't--I almost forgot myself) One of my best friends bought me a mosaic stepping stone kit for Christmas....I found it the other day and decided it was a good time to make it!

Bonus is I have a TON of mosaic pieces leftover and Mark said he had a huge bag of concrete in the basement! Yay! More stepping stones!

Laura that is so nice and colorful.

Thank you! I was like a proud mother out there taking it out of it's form! This was my first attempt at making a stepping stone so I was pretty pleased. Takes 2 days before you can take it out of the form....so how many stepping stones can I make before the summer ends?

Half stones would be really cool huh? Never thought of that.

And yep, the past few days was a long time waiting!

Too be honest I'm not sure where I'm going to put the one I made yet.....I don't know what I'll do if I make a whole bunch of them....When we expand the pond bed I could space them around the edge every few feet with flowers in between maybe?

Very nice Loz! I bet you had a lot of fun with that. Hope you'll show us more as they're done!!!

i like it... did you know, you can line a cake pan with plastic and make some really cool stepping stones with quik-crete? i did that with the exchange students, so i have 4 that are "homemade" i'll have to take some pics...

awsome loz! thats a great idea puttin them around yor pond!

That's super!

Congratulations on such a good job!

Very pretty Loz, can't wait to see it in the ground.

That is awesome loz! Good job!

Thanks, it was a lot of fun to make! It was a lot of fun figuring out where I wanted the pieces to go too! I rearranged them about 10 times.

Cool Loz!!!! What a fun project!!! You guys are just giving me more and more Ideas!!!

Very nice job Loz!
My friend made me a stepping stone and put a penny in it so I would know what year she gave it to me by the date on the coin!

Very nice Laura...
Love the colors..

(I have a puppy dog footprint mold I have never
done anything with.. I'll add it to my list yet!)

awwwww what a wonderful Idea your friend had!!!

Shoot Wrennie, I wish I would've thought of that! That's a great idea!

Get those suckers made Weezie! They won't make themselves! :

I'd like to make at least 4 more.

I took salad bowls from Wendy's and also some heart shaped plastic pans and filled them with concrete. I painted the stones and used the 'flower shape' from the Wendy's bowl and placed the heart underneath like leaves. I have also used big plastic cake covers like you get from the grocery and made stones. I have round and square in different sizes. You can use them as stepping stones, or I have used some of the smaller ones as a mini plant stand on a deck. My husband hates for me to mention making these because I use those 80 pound bags of quik-crete and guess who has to help me!!!

what a wonderful idea sherri! i think i'll do that. we have a bunch of birthdays coming up and i'll probably end up with some of those pans!!