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Show ' HERAtb, Home MagamirFri Page garden: Transform home by dressing up the walls By STEVE GRIMMER (Continued from I'age 15) that is as easy as baking a cake. "You just mix up a batch of that x concrete, the kind where you just add water. A 6! pound bag of concrete only costs about a dollar, and you can make quite a few stones from that." Wally's molds so resembled springform cake pans that I tried cake using the ring off an pan to make my own stones. With baby oil to grease the mold, it worked just fine. Try it yourself. You'll need: Metal ring from a springform cake pan or larger) Ready-mi- x concrete Baby oil or other mineral oil Sheet of cardboard Trowel Oil the ring and close the snap on the band. Place the ring on a sheet of cardboard or outside on the ground. Then mix together approximately 6 pounds of dry concrete mix with water. Wally suggests adding just enough water so the concrete has the consistency of a stiff cake bailer. Pour it into the mold, using a garden trowel to smooth the surface. To decorate the firming concrete. Wally sets polished black pebbles into his stones, lapping them in as you might press nuts on a coffee cake. It takes a day or overnight for the concrete to set. When you open the ring, the mold will slide off. Decorating is the fun part, so lei the kids join in when you make Gathyour own stepping-stoneered autumn leaves, pressed into the top of the mold, will leave their ready-mi- Newspapers Knight-Ridd- Brian Santos NOVI. Mich. understands the power of illusion. He's seen it alter the way people look at the four walls that surround them. a Santos is the Wall Wizard name he adopted during the nearly 15 years he has been teaching people about wallcoverings. 'T'm constantly going for the 'Ah!' factor." the Tampa, Fla., con sultant says. "I want people to understand how easily they can transform their homes and. yes, attitudes by simply dressing up their walls." Santos has deep roots in "deco- rators' theater." "My made his living as a set painter for West Coast theaters." Santos said. "And my grandfather and father followed in his footsteps as commercial painters and wallcoverers. great-grandfath- er Now I want to become the pied piper of decorative products. "Home renovators have Bob Vila, why can't decorators have a spokesman?" Santos, who has appeared on "Good Morning America" and The Learning Channel, recently relocated from San Francisco where he worked on the homes of quarterback Joe Montana, actress Doris Day and filmmaker George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. "I needed to come East to get closer to the many decorators' perform at each year," he said. "I want to educate through entertainment. Tell people t" forget about what you saw on the episodes of 'I Love Lucy' and The Three Stooges," where everyone gets covered with glue and tied up I shows of wallpaper. There is nothfear about taking on a paintto ing or wallpapering ing job." in rolls (8-in- s. . mark, along with impressions of acorns, seashells or your baby's handprints. Some of the fancier garden catalogs now sell round plaster stepping-stones, each at the price you might pay to add a new fruit tree to your landscape. Handmade stones will last as long and add a far more personal touch to your kitchen garden. Mia Amato is a Master Gardener and contributing editor to national siardenin" ma!aines. SOURCE LIST Weedblockers: Ty par Patio-Pr- o and Groundskeeper available ;.i garden centers, or contact 4 K enm Inc. at :78(). P ibric wee lblo also sold S(X)-28- BushnellCourtesy 224-123- 4 335 E. 1300 S., Each office independently - SPRING VILLE Res or comm. lovely brick home on N Main, large lot. explore 2100 sq Starter home on cuWo-saPROVO 3 bdrm, 2 bth, huge yard with lots ot fruit trees. y See this one fast! 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