Cake-Frosting Stepping Stone

These unique garden stones are a piece of cake!

Bruce Wiebe, Lakeville, Minnesota

Make just one of these "cake-frosting" stepping-stones and you'll be hooked. Success is guaranteed when you follow these simple (pardon the pun) step-by-step instructions. Best of all, you'll recapture the mud-pie-making joy of childhood.

The items you can use to make these one-of-a-kind disks are limited only by your imagination—or by whatever you stumble across around your house. There are those leftover tiles, the seashells you collect on your winter vacations, even that can of old keys. So take a creative leap: Make one stepping-stone, and you may have so much fun you'll fill your yard and garden with them.

Lay Out Your Design

Anything can make a cool mosaic pattern—tiles, glass beads, wood letters, polished rocks, found objects, buttons, and yes, even those old tools, nuts and bolts you bought at a garage sale. Whatever you're using, arrange it first on a dry stepping-stone alongside the stone you're covering. Then you can simply transfer and position items without guesswork.

Get in Step - Create a Stone!

One big advantage of using this moldless system is that you can make lots of stepping-stones without multiple forms or having to wait for the concrete to harden so you can reuse one form.