Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Projects Fall 2013, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
I thought we would wait a week to uncast them but Ric said they would be good and solid but still soft enough to work the edges if we needed too. I am very pleased with the results. On some we loosely followed the leaf edge and those needed touched up a bit to make the edges look nice. Ric took his grinder and metal file to them. We did two where we just made a shape and put the leave in the middle those look just fine you can see the leaf imprint in the bowl. So I figured out that I either have to follow the leaf edge very closely or just make a shape and put the leaf impression in it no in between. Here are pics of several finished ones you can see the difference between the worked and unworked edges. Next I will have to figure out how to paint them. They aren't near as heavy as I thought they might be so I should be able to bring each one inside to paint.