A while back, I was perusing Pintrest and came across a novel idea—tiled bowling ball garden ornaments. This looked pretty neat to me and I thought it might be a good project I could do with my kiddo.
So last summer we shopped garage sales and thrift stores for an old bowling ball (only $3) and colored dishes. Family members donated to the cause, giving us their old chipped and unwanted dishes—Sis even gave us some lovely iridescent purple glass beads that adorned the tables at her wedding reception! To top it off, my MIL found a nice gazing ball stand at a garden center that she picked up for me!
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| Here's Big Goonie aka Bill with our bowling ball. We've taken a Sharpie and drawn some swirly lines on it on which to put our glue (heavy duty construction adhesive) and adhere our glass beads. |
Bill helped me smash some dishes on the sidewalk, covered with an old towel. We decided to put purple glass beads on the swirls, turquoise tile pieces on the third top of the ball, green in the middle, and yellow at the bottom third.
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| Here's our supplies, neatly placed in dishes that will one day become part of another project! |
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| Tiling is going well! |
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| Still a work in progress, but too excited about our progress to not share the project! |
And this is where we're at! Just a little more tiling to go! Thank goodness I have another matching green bowl—we're going to need it! I found some ivory grout at Habitat for Humanity for just a couple of bucks. Might have preferred white, but I think it will do! Stay tuned for the final reveal!
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