Glass Stone Words for Landscaping (Fixing up my ugly hill)

You can, of course, use these in other places than the yard but I put mine in the yard.  My yard needs some major prettying up.  My yard is more of a hill.  A steep, ugly hill that refuses to really grow anything.  I must do more homework on plants for that hill..... 

Anyways, here is my ugly hill in my back yard.

Yup, steep and lacking all sorts of pretty.

So I started looking into my Pinterest board to get ideas.  Plenty of ideas for stepping stones, flat places, and pools.  Not many ideas for hills or whimsy.  I really wanted whimsy.  So I started thinking about how I could take what I had seen and make it mine.  There was this one pin that I really liked.  Someone on Etsy have taken stones and shaped them into dragonflies and flowers.  I like it and looked into using pavers and such from Home Depot.  But they didn't have the right shapes and I don't have the talent to shape them myself.  So I thought about making molds and making them that way.  I didn't have the patience to do that.  Then I came up with gluing glass pebbles together into words.  I don't remember how my brain made that leap so don't ask.  So I got the small flat glass stones and glued them into words and the big flat stones and glued them into flowers.  I used E6000 glue in clear.  I spent maybe $35 between the glue and the stones.  

Pretty

A couple more of my flowers.  I bout 3 bags and made about 10 flowers total.

Some more of the flowers. 

Laying out one of the words

Ready for gluing.  Don't skimp on the glue.

The size difference between the 2 stones

Finished product

Now there is some pretty in my garden.

Mullock - means dirt, rubbish, and tree stump.  My thoughts about my hill.

 Tips:  Don't skimp on the glue.  The stones are heavy and need the support. 

           Use short words if you are going to place them on a hill.  Mostly to help the glue hold it together.  This hill is very uneven and the bigger words had a tough time staying on the hill.
            Make it your own.
           Use wax paper, E6000 doesn't stick to wax paper and you can use the wax paper over and over again.
           Allow the letters to dry at least 12 hours before moving them.  This is a good time to trim up any glue spiderwebs and flip the letters over to air out.  E6000 is very stinky.
           This project should be done outside!!!  E6000 stinks!!

I used all sorts of words.  Fun words, silly words, meaningful words.  I was struck by the phrase "I am Loved" so I made it.  I also used words like: pure, fun, sun, read, grow, wild, wish, hero, date, wit, care, bliss.   I had many other words I wanted to due too (risk, tact, echo, delight, enchant, star, wine, lazy, allure) but I want to get the project done and I was running out of glass pebbles.  I will add more words at a later date, most likely. 


My other plans my hill include a retaining wall, fly repelling plants, plants on the hill, a rosemary bush fence on top of the hill.  At least, those are my plans currently.