I have a bowling ball covered in copper pennies. Does that count?

Swmo,
OOOKKKK I doo have a small one but I only uncover it after dark!LOL!

Denny

I think I may have one, but I love them,thinking of getting one this year,yes,I will get one this year.
Maybe a nice blueone.
cAROL

I have a gazing ball too ok! lol

I kind of hide it now near some shrubs too. It's a 12 incher too!
You can see it at top of pic:

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I have several.
Pam

I have a bowling ball covered in pennies, and two covered in glass beads. I also have gnomes,angels, bird houses and deer. What's your point?

I want this one.

Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: Sir Sagremor's Dragon

Ooh I love Design Tuscano! Nice!

Nice,Karen,but at $129.,I think I'll pass! Phil

I have a silver one.

My dentist has a rusty 3x3 ft gargoyle with spread wings in his garden, looks impressive, but probably would give me bad dreams, might come alive.

Yes, Design Tuscano has some nice stuff, but I don't own any. Way too much for me!

I've got several things from Design Toscano, this Christmas my mom bought for me a fairy playing a flute and a dragon sculpture, I like dragons and fairies and it's hard to find any dragon sculptures for the garden, and I prefer my fairies not to look like children with wings holding flowers. I'd like to have that gazing ball dragon sculpture, and I would like to save up to get it, but other more important things come first. Maybe I can get my boyfriend to buy it for me for my birthday, he has the money...lol! Oh sweetheart!

Karen

I had this blue one until we put the house up for sale and hit the road rving fulltime back in Sept..

Now I am making BB gazing balls as a hobby..

Flowerchild and Arcy do you have photos of your BB covered in pennies...I'd love to see it...

Chevy57red...love your stones BB...could I ask what you use to adhere them to the ball? I have lots of beautiful stones from Lake Superior that would make an excellent BB garden art that I'd love to get started making asap...so any tips from you would be appreciated....Thank you....Bevie

I do have pictures, but no success posting. GE Silicone II will work on stones, glass, pennies. I bring them all into the garage in the winter so they still freeze and so far five years later they are still holding up just fine.

Here a photo of my BB done with pennies

Love your stand sensibullmastiffs!! It looks like you did as we did and covered in two layers. We made mine into a fountain. Drilled a hole all the way through the middle, mine stands in a large bell shaped terra-cotta pot.

I used the liquid nails that I picked up at wally world.
I will be grouting it this summer.

I love the stone covered gazing ball! How it blends into the whole "garden" design sceme! Hmmm... Great idea! I might just have to think of doing one. Or at least, when I can afford to buy another gazing ball!

I made mine out of cast off bowling balls, and glass from the dollar store. The single most expensive item was the Silicone. Jump over to the garden junk forum put bowling balls in the search, and you will be amazed at what can be done!

Arcy...I was going to buy the GE Silcone II that everyone is talking about on the GJ forum but I opted to go with the Hardware store brand that was two dollars cheaper per tube, I couldn't find a difference between the two brands other than PRICE!!

I learned really quickly after doing that ball the way I SHOULD HAVE done it to make the placement of the second layer easier...can you say live and learn lol.

I used GE silicone too. It is starting to get a nice viridris color (is that the right spelling).
I loved the idea for the bowling ball covered in rock and the shiny glass. I have spread the word to the yard salers around here to look for cheap bowling balls.

I was given a blue glass gazing ball that is supported by three frogs embracing. The guys who gave it to me used another term to discribe the frogs. It took me over a year before I finally displayed it in my back yard garden. lol

Now the glass covered bowling balls are another matter. I have quite a few tucked here and there. I also covered croquet balls with glass beads and put them with the bowling balls. I have left mine out all year and some are cracked so it's best to take them in for the winter.

Go to your local bowling alley and ask if they have any balls they no longer use. They are usually free.

Connie

I do own one. Blue, kind of an elliptical shape instead of the traditional round. My daughter brought it back from Mexico many years ago, carried it home on the plane from California on her lap, for Mother's day. Needless to say, it is in a place of honor!

I love the bowling ball covered with polished stones.

I have a bright blue mirrored glass gazing ball and an aqua clear glass one.

trying do post a picture, see if this works

Here is a link that might be useful: picassa