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Plant Markers:
Materials
These markers are made of tiles, wire, marbles, and beads. The wire is
7-stranded copper wire from the electrical department at Home Depot. Each marker takes around two
feet of wire, which at $.09 per foot, costs 18 cents. The tiles are
pool tiles. I called a tile place
and asked about buying small numbers of individual tiles for an art
project. The owner's son said to come in - he had sample boards of pool
tiles that had been discontinued and he had been saving them for just such a
purpose. When I went in, he gave them to me for free! Pool tiles
are the perfect size and particularly ornate, perfect for a high-quality
project. I had checked a large craft
store, and the tiles there were mostly for mosaics - too
small. But they had beautiful glass beads, which were by far the most
expensive items I used, but well worth it. They also had a bin of
interesting polished pebbles in many colors, and packages of flat, colored
marbles. At Pier One, I was
able to find more flat marbles, as well as irridescent round ones. The
only tool I had to buy was a pair of round-nose pliers. At an art store, I found gold paint pens, a small
paintbrush, and top coat varnish for ceramics. Back home, I gathered
the rest of my tools: a small flat screwdriver, a small pair of wire cutters,
and a pair of needlenose pliers. Also useful, but not necessary, was a
spool of copper beading wire I already had. (When you need a single
strand, you can just separate it from the 7-stranded type.)
Next - the Tiles.
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