The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60568   Message #1230414
Posted By: Naemanson
20-Jul-04 - 11:38 PM
Thread Name: News From Guam
Subject: RE: News From Guam
Actually boulders from Maine would make a nice addition. Want to send me a couple of tons?

I have been playing around making table top fountains. I made one for a friend who was getting married. It used a blue 12" ceramic/stoneware bowl, a field of polished stones, a ridged upright piece of stone, two upright pieces of driftwood, some seashells, and her wedding invitation. The water comes out from under a shell on top of the ridged piece of stone and ripples down behind the invitation into the field of stones and shells. The invitation as delivered to me was rolled up and inserted into a clear plastic decorative tube.

The other one I built uses a smaller bowl (only plastic) and a ceramic flower pot. The flower pot is tall with a bell mouth like a trumpet. The sides are decorated and it stands on four little feet. It's only about four inches tall. While building the other fountain I knocked the pot over and broke a large piece out of the rim. The new fountain has the broken pot lying on its side in a field of stones with the piece next to it and water flowing out of it over the broken part.

Fun!