He is so totally cool! Â How did you make him, and what is the eye made of? Â I would love to make stepping stones for the garden... Please give me your secrets. Â :)
@JMTKMS: He is made of Quickcrete and pebbles I sifted out of my vegetable garden. The eye is actually a taxidermy fi... eye that I got in Ballard at Archie McPhee's. I think they were about 10 cents each at the time. I hand molded it to fit in a space I had by my pond at my old house. I also made snails, birds, leaf print 'Fossils', etc. And of course, the cat's made foot prints too! :)
@JMTKMS: I just used a bag of Quickcrete, and I had a twig for the mouth that is long gone, but the imprint is still there. Then I placed pebbles in the wet concrete for fish scales, and of course, I can't forget the taxidermy fish eye! :)
@Queen_of_Green: Well, he is an awesome accompl... stepping stones.  I would like to make one just like him.  I really like fish.  In Anacortes, they have a festival each year, and one year they had a fish painting booth.  They actually painted dead fish with house paint, then carefully laid them on a white t-shirt, patted them down and then removed them.  The imprints were so awesome and they remind me of this stepping stone!  :)  Always a memory. Â
@JMTKMS: Thanks for the compliments! I actually had one of the very t-shirts you are referring to! It was a Chinook Salmon in purple paint on a white t-shirt! I loved it... That may even be what inspired me to make this fish! :)
@Queen_of_Green: Â Are you familiar with Anacortes? Â I was there for the whole fair. Â My Gramma lived just a few blocks away from where the Fish stand was. Â Wow. Â Small World again.
@JMTKMS: Yes, I love Anacortes. I used to go up there a lot! We always have lunch in Anacortes when we go to the tulip festival. I like LaConner a lot too. It's a nice drive.
@Queen_of_Green:  Do you know it well enough to know where the Eagles building Is?  My Gramma's house was behind their building.  The street fair is on Commercial Avenue, and the fish booth was about at the corner of Commercial ... 8th.  My Gramma's house is at the corner of 8th and Q.  A business that remodels houses, bought her house to be their office and they remodeledÂ... to use as an example.  Glad it is still there, but sad it is not the same.
@Queen_of_Green: Â Yes, I am glad too. Â And the world is getting smaller by the minute. Â :) :) Â I love Anacortes, I would have loved to have been able to live there.... Â So many great memories, we (my sisters and I) really watched that town grow up. Â It is so different, yet the same.
@JMTKMS: That's what this is from. I made a path and terrace by my pond at my old house, and this fish was in the terrace. I also made concrete snails..., birds, other fish, and various leaf print 'fossils'. It was really fun to do! I'll see of I can find a photo of the actual path and post it.Â
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