Stepping Stones: part 2 – 4th of July

Being as we are in stepping stone mode it seemed appropriate to make one in honor of our 4th of July get-together.

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Keely coating the mold with petroleum jelly.

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The cement is poured and ready to go…….

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Looking for the right letters

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Thomas is first

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Micah

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Maddy

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Isaiah

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Keely

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John

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Cheree

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Ivan

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Michael

Things we learned……..

This is the first time we have used the letter stamps. We knew that the cement needed to sit for awhile before we used the stamps so it would firm up a bit. We let it sit about 1 1/2 hours but that wasn’t long enough. Next time I would wait 3 hours before stamping.

Here it is, 12 hours later, still in the mold, still drying. We will leave it in the mold until sometime tomorrow.

I’ll show you the finished stone in a future post 🙂