I love sunflowers and your stepping stone is awesome! Great idea. Thanks for sharing!

Hi Owlstone, Whenever I have to level a small area I always go with the stone dust. You can dampen the stone dust and use a brick as a tamper. If the area is round you could by a small round paver to pound with. Once compacted I also dampen again then wiggle the garden stone into the stone dust to lock in place. The stone dust dries and acts a bit like cement. Hope this helps. blacky1

hello jan! :) thank you for your sweet comments!! :)) hmmm... i dunno why you couldn't print off the tutorial...that's funny, you mean only the rock came up? i do have a dragonfly post about 2/3 posts back. i have taken pictures of the dragonflies i painted on canvas. dunno if that'll be a better help :) ooo... that's a big dragonfly you've got there... don't forget to post pictures of it when it's done! what i did with my dragonflies was ... i painted them first on an A4 canvas then scanned them into the computer. that way i can resize then and print them out as decoupage images. you should consider that for your dragonfly as well, tho if your galvanized metal is curve (like if it's a watering can for instance) it'll be difficult to scan. just a suggestion ...but if you first paint the 15 inch df on a piece of canvas then scan it into your computer... you can then cut and glue the original to your galvanized metal. and then varnish over. that way you kill 2 birds with one stone :) just a suggestion :) hugs luthien :)) Here is a link that might be useful: the link that'll take you to the dragonflies on canvas

Nice article Silva! I especially like that you showed a picture of the mortar that you use which should cut down on the repetitive questions you would probably receive asking you what is mortar! Love your garden stones and your clever placement of china!