Concrete prints..........

 

With a upcoming 50th wedding anniversary(momma Mandy's grandparents) we wanted to make a little gift. With her grandmother being a big gardener we decided to make a custom set of stepping stones. Here Malia is pictured with some plastic rings cut from a flower pot.

here daddy Dave is mixing up some concrete

after the concrete is poured into the molds the next step was to get those Malia impressions. She did not mind this in fact she had to be told to stop messing with the concrete. After some colorful glass rocks are pressed in the wet crete it was set in the sun to dry.

After the concrete impressions dried and the plastic molds removed daddy Dave then took off the rough edges with a concrete saw.

 

Being that the party was a few days away and the stones had been left outside during a passing shower they needed to be completely dried in order to paint. The above pic is not.... I repeat NOT ....a pic of momma Mandy's baking, but Malias concrete impressions.

After a little paint and polishing the impression stones were ready for delivery.