The turtles tend to blend into the background. Again, I love bright, eye-popping colors so maybe the turtles were not the right thing for this. Then again, maybe they will grow on me!!!

It's your Mobile, Make it as pretty and bright as you want....

I love it as it is...and thanks for making the tutorial for it!

Sally: Wow, what great little clay critters, I love the colors, and the snake is so cute! I have a piece of driftwood of similar size and shape sitting in a metal tray with sea shells, sand dollars and coral. I might try to think of something else to use that driftwood for. Y'all are so creative here on this forum, I'm hoping if I hang around and "lurk" long enough some of that creativity will rub off on me! Really, I can never think of any interesting and cute stuff to do for garden art. I've been known to repurpose things ... knowing me I would take the cute fish garden stake and saw the metal post off, drill a hole in the little blue flower to hang it somewhere. I am not good at "thinking" of things to make from scratch!

By the way Sally ... I love that little area of your garden with the arbor/trellis over those Elephant Ears and Banana Trees, very nice!

Linda, I have been going through all the arts and crafts magazines that came with this bunch of stuff that I bought and I am drooling! I see this project and that one and think, I can do that!! I can do this one too! May not be as pretty, but I can do it! I've gotten so many ideas, my head is spinning! Get thee to Michael's or another craft store and pick up a magazine, you will be surprised how easy some of this stuff is!

Sally will be teaching all kinds of garden art designs to us!

Sally, sounds like you have a gold mine there. How fun is that!!

Oh, so much fun!!! I keep coming across other items and believe me....the people who put this stuff together also put together such great instructions, I keep saying....I can do that...I can do that too!!! I am going to be busy for a long time and I am going to be doing things I never even thought I could try.

.and we'll never see you again. becasue you'll too busy for us!

OR

You'll become a master-crafter and your little paint palette micro badge will light up with all your tutorials!

I like option #2.

me too!

Oh, I'll be here!! I'll be posting pictures of items and asking you all.....what the heck is this used for???? In fact, I'll be starting that after my sis leaves tomorrow. She came to help me sort through stuff and rearrange. In exchange, I gave her some stuff to keep her busy as she just retired last week. BTW, I told her to come visit here.

Oh Sally, are you going to be teaching us? Well then, I take back my saying that you are teasing us. Waiting anxiously for the tutorials. You must be in heaven going thru all of those treasures.

The thread "GA CONTEST #3 - September: fall wreaths" in Garden Art forum

The September Contest is posted with 2 prizes!

I want to glue some earrings back together...is E-6000 best or something else?

E6000 is so thick and sticky and takes a long time to set. Not sure I'd use it on my earrings. It's also messy for tiny objects. You'd probably be like Dahlia and glue the earring to your finger. That's what would happen to me anyway.

One of the more liquid glues would or might be better. I think there is a jewelry glue available in a teeny tiny tube. Can't remember its name, though.

Thanks Sharon! It's metal against metal...wasn't sure if Superglue would hold or not. I''l go looking at the craft store!

Aleene's jewelry and metal glue should work.

It's like the super glue for jewelry.
I had to look up the name of it because I must have used all mine, can't find it, but I know it was Aleene's.

I think I got mine at Walmart. Maybe Hobby Lobby. Can't remember.

The brand I use for jewelry, etc. is called G-S Hypo Cement. But I imagine it's about the same as Aleen's.

I bought some glue today for metal. Like a super glue, it was a buck at the dollar store. Hoping it does the trick. THANKS ladies!