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Maybe a strange request but not for me. My Mom passed away in Jan this year and I have been in the process of selling the home. One thing that I want to take with me is the statue of the Blessed Mother which she always had in her back yard and she cherished this. I want to make some sort of a pedistal to sit this on with some flowers flanking it.
I was wondering if anyone here has something like this in their yards and if they would share some photos so I may get some ideas. My Mom had hers basically sitting on a stone surrounded by flowers but i want to raise it somewhat. Thanks in advance.
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The Italians in SF used to make what amounts to a cove out of stones so protect the statue from the elements and allow for candles with less chance of blowing out. I tore one down recently for a friend that was selling his house and didn't want to scare off chinese buyers
Somehing like this
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Sorry for your loss.
Try a garden center. They have all kinds of landscape stones and things for setting flower pots. Pick what goes best with the house.
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Bob10 said:
The Italians in SF used to make what amounts to a cove out of stones so protect the statue from the elements and allow for candles with less chance of blowing out. I tore one down recently for a friend that was selling his house and didn't want to scare off chinese buyers
Somehing like this
Yeah, called a "grotto" and in my neck of the woods there were a lot of Italian stone masons who built them for the churches, and then smaller ones in their back yards. Clearly a regional thing.
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Apparently I'm becoming redneck. I was sitting here thinking you could use an old bathtub and then put the stones around it.
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Apparently I'm becoming redneck. I was sitting here thinking you could use an old bathtub and then put the stones around it.
Quite popular around here. We have one at the family farm.
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Very popular in a lot of places.
We call them "bath tub Mary" on the professionals side of things
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Being a New Englander, around here we call it a Mary in a Halfshell.
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Bob, you coulda saved a lot of work by replacing Mary with a Buddha statue. To the OP, sorry for your loss. I like the stone grotto idea, but it seems like a lot of work.