Customizing: Miniature Zen Garden

[dieastra]

After making the Japanese Wall panels with my neighbour's picture frame I was searching the web for one of those miniature Zen gardens for the desk. There are lovely ones out there, for example this one

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[excentric397]

Paying out for a zen garden seems to go against the principles of Zen, anyway. Yours is just as nice, and has the same function. Love your rocks, too. I like rocks. Have a bunch I have collected in various places over the years. Anyway, well done.

[dieastra]

Paying out for a zen garden seems to go against the principles of Zen, anyway.

Never thought about it that way but you are probably right!

Those particular rocks are from my summer vacations as a kid at the Baltic Sea. They all have a hole in them, some different mineral that washed out. The German name is Hühnergott, which translates to adder stone / hag stone?

Thanks!

[quarryquest]

They are hag stones in he UK and supposed to protect you from witchcraft. I have several I have picked up on the beach near me.

[dieastra]

Right, I think I remember people actually wearing them on a necklace which was put through the hole. I like their interesting shapes.

[owensheart]

Thats lovely.

[dieastra]

Thank you!

[sharp2799]

Brilliant! I love yours even better than the others. It's all about simplicity.

[dieastra]

Aw thank you! I'm quite proud about my idea.
Also I realized today that I can use the glass from the frame to make a couch table. Will post pictures in the new year.

[alumfelga]

I don't know why but I thought for a moment that the stones were skulls. Some "Heaven Sent" feelings probably?

But after I realised they were just stones, it became less sinister :) You surely don't need to pay a huge ammount of money for something you can make yourself so well.

[dieastra]

Haha, sorry for that! Now that you say it, it also does look a bit like the grave from "Hamlet" ;) It was a funny scene when he was throwing around all those skulls. I wondered where he found them all in just one grave.

If you want though, I can re-do it with skulls. I have three of them: one is the crystall skull that came with the Daniel Jackson figure, one is an eraser we got at the Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet theatre, and one belongs to a plastic skeleton. And I also have a bigger skull that came with the big Sherlock figure.

You saw what made me do the mummy pictures, so be careful what you say in here LOL Maybe I should keep that thought for next year's Halloween *makes note*

Today I realized that I can also use the glass of the picture frame to create a class couch table. I will post pictures of it in the new year. That thing surely is worth its money! Come to think of it, if I put mirror foil onto it, I'd also have a mirror...

[alumfelga]

I wondered where he found them all in just one grave.
Some graves are being re-used after 50 or something years, aren't they? That must have been a really old graveyard...

The idea with skulls sounds good :)

[colej55]

Nicely done! Around my house, a Zen garden would be just another cat litter box. ;)

[dieastra]

Thanks! Haha, this is really very small, but I have heard that cats go into the smallest boxes!