I once tried my hand at crafting with concrete. This was long before I learned to knit, and I had a lot of extra crafting time and no real idea how to use it. One day at the gardening store I walked past an endcap display of a kit for making your own custom bricks. You could make bricks and stamp words into them with these little plastic letter stamps.
Dumb? Yes. I see that now.
It actually turns out to be fairly easy to mix up concrete. The hardest part for me was wrestling the 50lb bag of concrete mix into the cart, into my car, then out of my car and into the yard. Once I had that part done, it was relatively simple to mix, mold, and set the concrete. After that, I had no idea what to do with it.
My kit was related to those stepping stone kits, and just as useless. I'm guessing your need for stepping stones or custom bricks with words on them is fairly low. (And the problem with decorative stepping stones is that a lot of them turn out to be decorated in a way that makes them unpleasant to step on. Glass marbles and ceramic glazed tiles are slippery, you know.)
Buzzfeed has turned up some really interesting crafts made with concrete, though, and it's gotten me thinking again. I always wanted a concrete coffee table top. Of course, the industrial aesthetic is kind of played out at this point, and it wouldn't really go with my décor. But the heart wants what it wants, you know?
I also really like the idea of making concrete planters. Of course, I don't actually have very many plants on my porch. Like four, and they are all in their own planters already. But I guess it's just my inner goth talking, because the more I browse lists of concrete crafts, the more I want every single one of them.
Image courtesy Flickr/a_kep
1 comments