You certainly can use two mixes wet on wet. Put a nice sloppy fine sand mix to pick up the detail. Wait a few minutes and pour in your rocky premix concrete for strength underneath. If your sandmix gets a little dry just smear on some PVA white glue before pouring in your second mix. Just remember that most premix concretes should be 2" thick minimum because of the agregate size. If you want to make them a little thinner use regular Portlands, sand and BIRDSEYE GRAVEL. Birdseye is finer gravel about 1/4 inch in size used for road repair and you can get it cheap at the same place you get the sand. Birdseye is perfect for stones thinner than two inches. A bag of Portlands, a hundred pounds of birdseye gravel and a hundred pounds of sharp sand is going to make your stones cheaper and stronger than any premix. The reason I suggested a topping mix is they are designed to be runny without a lot of water. They use admixes to accomplish this so the product is very hard and strong. Any topping mix designed to repair concrete walkways or steps is going to hold up very well in a stepping stone and should pick up the pattern detail perfectly. Most places that sell ready mix concrete will sell you all the sand you can shovel for a very modest cost. Ask any brick layer when he goes to get his good sharp sand. Any concrete topping mix should also make very strong paddles. However the grout that was reccommended might be cheaper.

Jan, the vase came with the stripes and I've had this vase for a few months wondering what to do with it. It's funny how all of a sudden it clicks and comes together. Some days I can't wait to create and some days I struggle to put 2 pieces together so then I leave the thought all together. All in all I love gluing! :)

Thanks Kat! Joshua is my angel, the light and joy of my life (most of the time lol) The red heart is a clear glass heart that my hubby cut out for me. I used clear silicon as the adhesive. First of all I used copper wire through the center and had enough overhang to make a loop from where it would be hung and added some beads. I also made a heart out of the copper wire and glued that on too. I then glued the red glass on and used glass frit in the gaps instead of grout. You can buy glass frit from art glass shops. Hope this helps! (((hugs))) Tracey

Jammie I can't figure out how to send you an email. We (Dody, Kelly, the kids and I) plan to leave about 9:45...that should get us there around noon (ish). We plan to start congregating and loading at my house at around 9:30 AM. Can you send me an email so I can send you my address? joellenh @ gmail.com (remove spaces) Do you need to borrow a GPS in case we get separated? I have a small portable Garmin Nuvi that you can use which is MUCH better than the system built into my minivan. jo