Teresa,
If you type in bowling ball art in the search line in this Garden Art forum, you will get lots of threads listed, all about bowling balls all fancied up and used as gazing balls. This link below probably has the most images showing different ideas. I love the one that
@dave and his children covered in pennies, it's beautiful, just as most of the others are. I'm wondering how the pennies held up in Texas weather.
The thread "August Challenge ~ Create-a-ball" in
Garden Art forum