Concrete leaves

My mother-in-law came across this article in one of her magazines to make concrete leaves for the garden.  The one pictured above is a lotus leaf and can be used like a bird bath.  Well, I have been wanting to learn how to do it since.  I think it is a really cool idea and well who knows what new things that knowledge could inspire!!  She called on Saturday to tell me she had gotten some rhubarb leaves from a local lady and would be making some if I wanted to learn.  Ummmm yes!!!  It is not a very complicated process, but it does take patience.  You have to have patience to grow the plants to provide the leaves (or make some very "green thumb" friends), patience to mold the leaf and then form the concrete and patience to wait for the concrete to harden.  The hardening part is by far the most trying - it is so tempting to touch them while they are drying and to check on them and to pick them up!! Thank goodness they are at her house so I am not tempted.  I can't wait to see the ones I made and with the left-over concrete C made a stepping stone for Daddy!