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I was looking for a source for my mosaic bowlingball and came across this site. Loved alot of the ideas, especially the magazine rack made into a bench and the marbled bowlingballs.Check it out! click here for the website.

Was the bowling ball cracked on purpose? Or just used in spite of being cracked?

I have a facination with colored glass and different lighting effects.

For my daughter`s wedding I have taken 5 bottles of different shades of green, put christmas lights in them, turned them upside down in a clay pot, put clear marbles around thebottles to help stabilize them and put lights under the marbles too.

I took a jar with a glass lid, put christmas lights in the jar with bits of old colored cellophane. I think broken glass or the sea grass would be even neater to use.

bottle tree

bottle village

Rue I thought the same thing myself about the broken bowlingball, not too pretty.And I have never heard of bottle trees untill now, must be a regional thing, never seen one around here.

Ooooh, I just found these this morning...
Some GREAT designs, here....

More Bowling Balls

OK I will always admit when I'm wrong, and I have to admit to being a hillbilly, I was concerned with you Girls , sitting around staring at bowling balls;However, after some research, they seem to be quite the Fad! So in a gesture of apology, I have even went and found BOWLING BALLS For Ya Phil

Phil ....you are something else!!!

Phil,
It's when they start staring at the zucchini's
you got to start worryin' about them! tehetehe

Those mosaic BB are really really cool. Hey those duckpin bb on the link Phil posted would be a great size.

I have got to do some mosaics!

Hmmmmm,Gosh Weezie, I guess I don't know how to respond to THAT :rolleyes:
And yes Cat Lover, I am something the jury is still out on exactly WHAT!!

Hey I stare at my plants!! All my plants though, I don`t play favorites. AND I talk to them too, telling them how sweet they are or if they are looking down ask them what is wrong.

Oh, Shamarian!!!!
Go find a copy of a Better Homes and Garden
"Garden Shed" magazine!!!

There's an article on how to do a bowling ball..

I just happened to be in the magazine isle today in the grocery store, and flippin' thru the garden mag's... and came acrossed it!
Thought I'd let you know!!!

The same techinque to do clay pots, glass bowls, vaces, candles/?????

Take a peak at it and let me know what you think!

Weezie

Thanks a bunch Weezie, will be at the store tomorrow. LOl sounds like you do the same things that I do, like stealing ideas and inspiration and then putting the magazine back,only investing if you really need the whole book, and God knows I already subscribe to enough garden magazines as it is, but don't we just love making good use of that time spent waiting in line

I bought the book!!!

But it had a bunch of ideas!!

I am usually a magazine subscriber,
(way better price for the sub than the off the
shelf price )
but, I used to have, ohmygosh, can't remember,
I listed all of my mag's that I got here somewhere's for good gardening catalogs somewhere's, they WERE all mine, but, when you don't work and it's pizza, plants or magazines,
I opted to "surf the net" and get the plants and pizza!!!

But, I haven't had a new book in soooooooooo long,
I thought I'd treat my self!!!!

Weezie

If you don't find it let me know!!!

And you deserve it!