Stepping Stones: part 3 -Day, Night, & Bottle Caps

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Prepping the mold

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Smoothing out the cement

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Keely putting the design in her Day & Night stone

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Placing the bottle caps

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The finished Day & Night Stone

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The finished Bottle Cap stone

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 🙂

Stepping Stones: part 1

This month my niece and I are going to work on a project I have really been looking forward to.

We are making our own stepping stones.

We have two different sized molds to give us options.

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Plates and butterfly from the thrift store, cute little pink flowers from the Hobby Lobby clearance isle.

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More thrift store finds.

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Store bought mosaic pieces from Hobby Lobby.

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More plates for mosaics and cement stamps so we can add names & dates.

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Picking out the perfect bottle caps.

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Candle holders from the Unclaimed Baggage Store

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Pam and/or petroleum jelly to coat the mold.

Keep a look out for future posts that will show the process and completed stones 🙂