Comments on: diy project: shannon’s concrete garden spheres

By: KAREN MANASCO

KAREN MANASCO — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:09:35 +0000

Excellent. This is right up my alley. Thank you for sharing!

By: Anne Ross

Anne Ross — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:04:30 +0000

just love your ideas. I am a mosaic artist but find difficulty in getting concrete spheres to mosaic! I would really like to be able to access lighter material for mosaicing. Anybody got any ideas? thanks Anne

By: Kari

Kari — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:36:34 +0000

I made three of varying sizes last weekend and they look fantastic in the garden “island” we made for our atrium!

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:47:29 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention that you can mix hypertufa by adding perlite (without fertilizer) and peat moss to your concrete mix to lighten it up if that is a concern.

A book I have says that you can use non fertilizer potting soil in place of peat/perlite combo. I haven’t tried that, but thought I’d pass on the info.

Polypropylene fibers can be added for strength, but this is such a small project I don’t think I’d worry about that.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:34:03 +0000

I have wanted some hose guides and I think some of these with a piece of rebar sticking out of the bottom would be perfect!

If you want to paint or color these it might just be best to use thinned dish soap (be careful to not get bubbles) for a release instead of anything oil based (cooking spray)

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:41:50 +0000

Check out the acid stain coloring techniques at http://www.directcolors.com/acidstain/. They even have gelled acid stain for this kind of project or stencils. Neat!