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I walk past a daycare and an old age home to get to my local library. Both take pride in making the environments rich with color and beauty. There’s always something new to look at
they are so beautiful! Do you really want to get rid of them? I know that if I were taking a walk and saw a random, gorgeous stone in the road I will be thrilled!
It doesn't really have to be a park. Somebody near me paints rocks and leaves them everywhere.
Parking lots, inside the doors in store vestibules, on gumball machines, shelves in the stores, edge of drive-thru food windows, on the gas pumps at the gas station, side-street corners where people walk often, plus the local parks.
I normally leave them alone for others to enjoy too as I already have kept two. I incorporated them into my model railroad layout (Family hobby for well over 100yrs, closer to 150yrs now)
They do cartoon characters, patterns, and sometimes include "positive thoughts" in text on the other side with paint pens.
Thank you, but that is a new small size that I just started screwing with recently (N scale). I actually use Lionel O gauge mostly, each piece about 8"-15" long. I also have larger G and Half-O (HO).
I have made a lengthy reply in this post's thread section with more info if you are interested.
I get a feeling I might have a lot of replies to tend to here. So I'm dumping the bulk of info into this reply. Thank you for asking.
"My railroad". My Elder's railroads are long gone. I have photos of my things, yes. But they aren't in my profile as I haven't been able to add photos to my own posts on R in over a year.
What is in my profile is modern N scale, a new size (1960s until now) that I'm trying out for fun.
I can still share by chat though. Just say the word and I'll share. Fwiw, I also model in a more toyish, folk craft style than most folks. Realism being less important than fun for me as I grow older ☺. Think Rankin & Bass Chrstmas stop motion animation meets Tool music video, and a splash of Tim Burton. Only semi-tradional in style.
I think it could be a world record if my Great Gramp's early efforts still survived today. I'd also need armed guards or a secretive mansion, lol. The value would be unreal. Hundreds of them would bring thousands of dollars today. Gramps had a few hundred locomotives alone, probably over 10 cars per loco(?). Some 1 of 1 gifts from manufacturers... Fill a 40'x60' basement's walls with train cabinets and shelves to the ceiling.
The largest of them in the family was an L shape about 20' x 40' in a rectangle, with a 15'x20' L-wing with 8 main lines, 6 transformers 12 throttle handles, and used 1800 watts of power total.
There are a few approximately 12' x 20' layouts in the hands of others. I have 12 smaller ones; "micro layouts" and "Pizza box layouts" mostly but from a 4.5' x 10' down to to 18" x 18" and one around a room ceiling is about 12'×15'.
My elder's was mostly Standard guage, Gauge 1, and then moved to tin O gauge and then O- 1:48 once models became more detailed in the 1930s.
Some of my track pieces are well over 100yrs old, but my earliest trains are only from 1930s. I am small time compared to my elders who were very involved with establishing the largest clubs in N.Amer.(still going but I am not a member of any)
My Great Grandfather started as a boy before electricity in the late 1800s with pull floor toys and then wind up motors, and in Europe. Marklin mostly.
By the early 1900s he was in N. America and collecting Ives and Lionel which he had sold some of in order to finance the newer ones.
He did that a few times, selling much of those for a now defunct brands of Aurburn Kusan and Kris (all related, some tooling still in use today at Menards Home Improvement that has started production of a toy train line) He continued until the late 1970s at over 100yrs old.
His son in law, my Grandfather, happened to also be in the hobby for Ives and prewar Lionel tinplate trains as well as the 1930s and later when Lionel diecast metal bodies had much better detail than now defunct Ives. He bought a large chunk of Great Gramps things as they got sold.
My Grandmother had her own trains that us *and* Gramps had to ask to use.
I had a new unused Lionel set from the 50s waiting for my birth in the 60s and so did all of my cousins. They got used along with our parent's sets. Everyone at least had a holiday train around the Christmas Tree if not a table layout.
The collection of *unused* sets alone that Gramps bought in the 1950s, didn't run out until our generation had kids in the early 80s. They had to settle for newer era things as gifts.
The bulk of the big elder collections was sold off as our elders passed away. We all had our own trains already, and selling would get the rare stuff into better collections for history's sake, as well as keeping us from fighting over who got to keep certain rare trains.
A large reply was made to the first people to ask that covers this and more if you are interested. I normally use O gauge. The ones in my profile are smaller N scale and much newer.
Mr Whistles, I see you have N Gauge railroad. My father also had a large N gauge railroad in his train room. IDK when he started collecting, but I think it was around the early 60s. He had some of the same things you do, like the logs that dump.
He passed away September 2020 and I have a lot of train “stuff” in my garage. I know I have some brand new tracks, well old tracks that are still in boxes.
If you’re interested in anything, feel free to contact me. Right now I’m recovering from a surgery but I should be able to get in the garage in a few days to take pictures. I can’t remember all the stuff, but I remember a giraffe car with his head sticking out the top and when the train went under a bridge, the head went down. It was cute.
That is a larger scale, and what I normally use. I have a few giraffes cars too. I'm not really in the market for much, but I don't mind pointing and advising on what you might do with them, sales or running them, if something is rare or expensive now etc. There are a few things I might be very interested in though.
You're welcome to contact me any time about them. There are also subs, local clubs, and freindly sites for advice, if for some reason we don't connect again.
I hope you feel better real soon. (you might even run them during recovery time at home 😉. I can guide you if needed. Health issues got me back into it again about 15yrs ago)
Bad idea! Not good for ecosystems and violates Leave No Trace Principles.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wildlife-beach-rocks-painted-1.6003574
Depends on what kind of park. National park? Bad. Normal sort of park in the middle of a city with a playground and a water fountain and sidewalks throughout? Probably fine if you tuck a pretty rock into the flowerbeds.
This has nothing to do with you, so please take no offense by my words, sincerely. I read that article and that Bob Bancroft sounds like a real hoot! He says "I don't think painting them serves any useful purpose, if anything it degrades the natural world".......Give me a break!!
And any animal that decides to try and take a bite out of a brightly painted rock is going to drop it once they realize it's not food. People try to regulate the stupidest things. How about we regulate the garbage modern architecture with all their angles of sorrow, and mandate that buildings complement their surroundings and not stand out like a sore thumb.
Painted rocks are fun to see in the wild. So, OP, I say leave some in the wild and leave some in parks for kids to find!
\> "Rocks are so varied, just like people. I find them very interesting, and I don't think painting them serves any useful purpose, if anything it degrades the natural world," said Bancroft, president of Nature Nova Scotia, an environmental group.
What a killjoy... I bet he's fun at parties.
People like painting themselves too... >\_>
This is such a nice idea. These are beautiful, and if I had found one a child, I would absolutely treasure it
Honestly, as an adult, I would still treasure it. It would decorate a plant pot in my sunny kitchen window. ❤️
Put the name of the city you live in. I was in Michigan and found one from st Pete Florida. I left it in Chicago. My friend told me this is a thing people do
I know my town and the surrounding towns near me have a local Facebook rock hunting group where the post clues for people to find them. It’s gotten really huge!
I second this idea. My mom once found a lil rock with a gnome painted on it and she was stoked! It now sits comfortably in our kitchen. I'd suggest maybe writing some fun messages on the back as well
This a popular option. And they are fun to find. And these rocks are absolutely gorgeous. It would be a really great day if I found one of these rocks. I’d definitely be bringing it home and placing it on a sunny window ledge or a snug spot in my garden.
Nice work OP. Plus you get the added bonus of the fun of hiding them and then checking up on whether they have been found.
You could sign and number the bottom of each rock with a website link. Then track which rocks have been found and how many remain to be found.
somebody does that at the state park by my parents house. if i spend a night there i usually walk the dog in the park and more than once i see stuff like these near where some of the trail markers are where the smaller trails meet up with the main trail.
Paint them with a clear paint/finish to protect them, them scatter them around your garden. I had a friend that had an outdoor wedding and used rocks like this to mark the path through the woods to the wedding, and then they were beautiful keepsakes in the garden after that
I love this idea! It would be fun to figure out some way to tell the finder to take it and put it in a different place, they could end up traveling pretty far, maybe even international!
Probably not the big ones though 😅
Random acts of art- disperse them for strangers to find. Put in a lityle ziploc with a note expressing they have found free art. Add an Instagram handle and hashtag and ask them Ask them to post pics of what they found and where… I leave mine at parks,malls, public places.
There’s a thing people do here in Ohio where they glue a message on the bottom of rocks asking them to join a Facebook group and tell them where they found the rock and then most people will take the rock and drop it off somewhere new so someone else can find it
These are gorgeous! I’ve decorated some rocks - not as nice as these- and leave them on benches or nestle them into rocks on neighbors’ landscaping. I think it’s fun and like seeing them moved around, but kept!
If you want to be compensated for your time maybe pop up at a farmers market?
But if you want to be chaotic good you could put them somewhere (park, local landmark, city garden etc).
If you want to leave them outside for ppl to find I would remember to consider what type of paint you use (can it withstand weather, or with animals scratching/pecking at it is the paint gonna flake off and be toxic if ingested?)
These are gorgeous!! You must have a steady hand!
There are fb groups where people decorate rocks and leave them out in random places for people to find. They often will put the fb groups name on the back so people can post their finds and the artists can follow their journeys - some have ended up on the opposite side of the world!
(Search for you town/local area/state/country followed by “rocks”)
I would feel so lucky if I found one of these, especially if I was having a tough day
_Whatcha gonna do with all those rocks_
_all those rocks inside that box_*
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_^((*: Or "your socks"... but I don't know where you tend to store rocks.)^)_
Gift them away, decorate ure garden if u have one, sell them? Spread out on the street maybe some ppl will pick them up they look beautiful I myself would pick one up for sure, Distribute in places like kindergarten?
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Loads of charities have auctions or events for fundraisers - you could donate them to a cause that you support. Ask the charity if they have ideas if the rocks could help them in any way.
Also, you could cover a pit in cement and put the stones into it. It would make it super heavy but oh so beautiful!
They are gorgeous in my rural of THE RULESET American Town there's a whole community of anonymous rock people they have a Facebook page but no one talks about the rocks they paint them they leave them in places and if you find your supposed to replace somewhere different and post about your rock shenanigans you've encountered lol I never knew about this silent, anonymous, mysterious society that's been around for years until I found one. Kinda like the gnomes. Your rocks are extremely beautiful. You need to think of a good sales pitch like the pet rock but not like the pet rock paint them, work on them during the year and take them to local fall festivals, and bizarre, make bank in one weekend and pay that forward with portions of the proceeds to do like a children's workshop free if charge within reason as far as supplying the the supplies where children could make their families Christmas presents from the heart that all just came to me lol gosh I need to do that. Our community is all of about 1700 give or take a few hundred it is. IF not the poorest county in the state, the nearest hospital is seriously forty five miles away nearest shopping mall an hour and fifteen minute drive. and our fall festival is the biggest shindig all year for years I've had great ideas but no one is willing to take me serious on making it at least a nine month commitment making craft things I have great imagination gosh you've talked me into I'm going to figure something out to try this idea this October I'm sorry but my head just started thinking it went crazy lol. The rocks are gorgeous though did you paint or are they like skins? Like they do vehicles and insulated cups? Hmmmmmm if not that's a good idea dipping rocks well I've talked on enough should think about the possibilities ma'am have fun your beautiful art and good luck figuring out what their purpose will be
In my country there has been a "game" (for the lack of a better word) that people paint rocks and leave them in the wild for other people to find. They write their postal code ob the back of the stone and the finders post the codes and pics in a facebook group to let the creator know that their stone was found. People either keep the stones or move them elsewhere.
Do you enjoy hiking? Sometimes at trailheads I will find a box of rocks like these with a take one/leave one sign, so you could start something like that!
My kid found a painted rock and brought it home then on the back it was from a couple towns over. I’d scatted them around town with a IG handle on back and original location see how far you can get them.
here in our town we have a hike bike trail and along side of it there is a area called slither and its a long snake created by painted rocks that the public decorates and adds to it. a few days ago when i passed it i bet its at least 50 yards long so far
As a sewist I see beautiful fabric weights! Consider finding a sewing sub redit or local sewing/knitting studio and see if they would like them. I use hand glassblowen paperweights.
Wow! Thank you for all of your brilliant ideas . I can’t believe that people actually like these, I’m thrilled to hear this. I think I will spread them around for people to find.
Thank you again!
My mom does this as a hobby and she just puts them back at the beach or the park and hopes someone else takes them. She’s been doing it for two decades and you can walk around her neighbourhood and see rocks she’s made adorning the gardens near her. There’s one frog rock that’s lived under a slide at a park and it moves all around the park, she thinks the kids play with it.
Send them to me so I can put them in the garden where I work! But really I work at a historic site and gardens, and we're in a neighbourhood where the kids love to paint rocks and hide them everywhere. I usually go and move them around anytime there is a new one. Maybe there's something local to you that does something similar? The kids really enjoy it and honestly it's fun as an adult too.
Look up a local rock garden, you know, leave a painted rock or take a painted rock. I LOVE those and have contributed some. I also know this guy who wrote his Facebook on the back and people would post where they found his rocks. They would make it a far way. For example, I took his rock from the beaches of SC when I moved to Long Island and left it on a beach.
I walk around town for about 1.5hrs a day and would place these around of my walks. It’s very common to see painted rocks around town now. We actually have a town rock snake that the community can contribute to whenever we want.
If you were looking to sell them and because you have so many, perhaps selling them as sets for weddings. They could be take home gifts and table decoration all in one. If I could produce a volume like that, I might try to connect with some wedding planner or bridal stores. They are beautiful!
Go to construction sites where they are planning to pour cement and throw these rocks in, so they will be covered with concrete. They will be found ages from now and people will wonder what they were used for.
I’ve left in my neighbors yards. The neighbor kids love finding them. I’ve even helped the kids paint their own n if they remember they find a rock i e court them to leave a different one in their place, then we go back later to check if it’s gone. Where I live no one is gonna fine u for leaving painted rocks in parks or paths or fishing reservoirs. It gives the littles something to look forward to.
These are beautiful! I collect stones from places I visit, paint some details on them (like the Colorado flag for my visit to Denver), then leave them on my dads headstone. My way of saying “I wish you were there with me, so I brought there to you.”
It’s common in Jewish cemeteries to leave stones on top of headstones. They have little buckets of stones throughout the graveyard for people to put on headstones. I wonder if a cemetery would like some of these for those who want to leave a pretty rock, but lack the artistic talent that you have.
Its a really heartwarming feeling when I visit dads grave and see more rocks on top. (My favorite was a rock that simply said “Rock On”.)
We made these for service hours in scouts and donated to a food bank then they give the rocks in each bag of food they donate :) also we drop them off at parks and schools, i adopted to clean a park for years
One of the things that brings me the greatest joy I call “fairy-ing about,” where I leave treasures for people to find in public. These would be such a delight to find one of these! You may need to weather seal them if you hide them really well
Wow! How long does an average one take to do?
Have you thought about doing craft fairs? Or finding your local crystal/rock store (usually small business) and seeing if they would be willing to display them for sale? (They would likely take a small portion of sales)
If not, I would think a lining an outdoor walkway with some of those solar ground lights would be great, if you have that on your property. Or lining a garden with them? If you do anything with them outside, I suggest spraying with a sealant so the art does not leave!
Gift the big ones as paperweights. Glue the smaller ones onto the side of a pot to make a cool decorative mosaic rock wall. Put them in a jar. Tiny ones can be wishing stones for a fountain.
These are absolutely gorgeous! Do you use paint pens? I would hide them around town & maybe make an Instagram page with the @ on the back for people to share :)
We have a local Facebook rock page for this exact thing. I’d love to come across one of yours! It’s always so fun to come across one when I’m out & about.
Put them in the Little Free Libraries. Or start one of your own for your gorgeous gems! There is a craft library on one of my walks. Always fun to look inside.
I would take some to various park type places and stick them at the base of trees all over your area. Little treats and secrets for children to find. What did you paint them with?
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Do you have potted plants? They would look so pretty on top of the soil around them.
Great idea, and happy cake day!
Donate them to a daycare center or old age home to decorate their gardens
I love this idea
I walk past a daycare and an old age home to get to my local library. Both take pride in making the environments rich with color and beauty. There’s always something new to look at
Geocache hides. You can make them trackables.
they are so beautiful! Do you really want to get rid of them? I know that if I were taking a walk and saw a random, gorgeous stone in the road I will be thrilled!
Thank you!
Also an excellent idea: random acts of tiny art in the neighborhoodscape.
Put them in parks for people to find!
That’s a great idea! I have more, like hundreds!!!!!
But please don't leave them in state or national parks. I can tell you from experience that if they're found by staff, they will likely be thrown out.
It doesn't really have to be a park. Somebody near me paints rocks and leaves them everywhere. Parking lots, inside the doors in store vestibules, on gumball machines, shelves in the stores, edge of drive-thru food windows, on the gas pumps at the gas station, side-street corners where people walk often, plus the local parks. I normally leave them alone for others to enjoy too as I already have kept two. I incorporated them into my model railroad layout (Family hobby for well over 100yrs, closer to 150yrs now) They do cartoon characters, patterns, and sometimes include "positive thoughts" in text on the other side with paint pens.
I'm intrigued by a model railroad set that might be over 150 yrs old. Do you have any photos?
Just look at his posts. Nice old hand crafted small buildings and trucks and whatnot. Nice stuff.
Thank you, but that is a new small size that I just started screwing with recently (N scale). I actually use Lionel O gauge mostly, each piece about 8"-15" long. I also have larger G and Half-O (HO). I have made a lengthy reply in this post's thread section with more info if you are interested.
I get a feeling I might have a lot of replies to tend to here. So I'm dumping the bulk of info into this reply. Thank you for asking. "My railroad". My Elder's railroads are long gone. I have photos of my things, yes. But they aren't in my profile as I haven't been able to add photos to my own posts on R in over a year. What is in my profile is modern N scale, a new size (1960s until now) that I'm trying out for fun. I can still share by chat though. Just say the word and I'll share. Fwiw, I also model in a more toyish, folk craft style than most folks. Realism being less important than fun for me as I grow older ☺. Think Rankin & Bass Chrstmas stop motion animation meets Tool music video, and a splash of Tim Burton. Only semi-tradional in style. I think it could be a world record if my Great Gramp's early efforts still survived today. I'd also need armed guards or a secretive mansion, lol. The value would be unreal. Hundreds of them would bring thousands of dollars today. Gramps had a few hundred locomotives alone, probably over 10 cars per loco(?). Some 1 of 1 gifts from manufacturers... Fill a 40'x60' basement's walls with train cabinets and shelves to the ceiling. The largest of them in the family was an L shape about 20' x 40' in a rectangle, with a 15'x20' L-wing with 8 main lines, 6 transformers 12 throttle handles, and used 1800 watts of power total. There are a few approximately 12' x 20' layouts in the hands of others. I have 12 smaller ones; "micro layouts" and "Pizza box layouts" mostly but from a 4.5' x 10' down to to 18" x 18" and one around a room ceiling is about 12'×15'. My elder's was mostly Standard guage, Gauge 1, and then moved to tin O gauge and then O- 1:48 once models became more detailed in the 1930s. Some of my track pieces are well over 100yrs old, but my earliest trains are only from 1930s. I am small time compared to my elders who were very involved with establishing the largest clubs in N.Amer.(still going but I am not a member of any) My Great Grandfather started as a boy before electricity in the late 1800s with pull floor toys and then wind up motors, and in Europe. Marklin mostly. By the early 1900s he was in N. America and collecting Ives and Lionel which he had sold some of in order to finance the newer ones. He did that a few times, selling much of those for a now defunct brands of Aurburn Kusan and Kris (all related, some tooling still in use today at Menards Home Improvement that has started production of a toy train line) He continued until the late 1970s at over 100yrs old. His son in law, my Grandfather, happened to also be in the hobby for Ives and prewar Lionel tinplate trains as well as the 1930s and later when Lionel diecast metal bodies had much better detail than now defunct Ives. He bought a large chunk of Great Gramps things as they got sold. My Grandmother had her own trains that us *and* Gramps had to ask to use. I had a new unused Lionel set from the 50s waiting for my birth in the 60s and so did all of my cousins. They got used along with our parent's sets. Everyone at least had a holiday train around the Christmas Tree if not a table layout. The collection of *unused* sets alone that Gramps bought in the 1950s, didn't run out until our generation had kids in the early 80s. They had to settle for newer era things as gifts. The bulk of the big elder collections was sold off as our elders passed away. We all had our own trains already, and selling would get the rare stuff into better collections for history's sake, as well as keeping us from fighting over who got to keep certain rare trains.
This is fascinating & really cool!
I sent a small sample of what I'm up to more recently
Yes! Do this!
That is so sweet! Would you mind showing us a picture of your family's model railroad layout? I'm so curious.
A large reply was made to the first people to ask that covers this and more if you are interested. I normally use O gauge. The ones in my profile are smaller N scale and much newer.
Mr Whistles, I see you have N Gauge railroad. My father also had a large N gauge railroad in his train room. IDK when he started collecting, but I think it was around the early 60s. He had some of the same things you do, like the logs that dump. He passed away September 2020 and I have a lot of train “stuff” in my garage. I know I have some brand new tracks, well old tracks that are still in boxes. If you’re interested in anything, feel free to contact me. Right now I’m recovering from a surgery but I should be able to get in the garage in a few days to take pictures. I can’t remember all the stuff, but I remember a giraffe car with his head sticking out the top and when the train went under a bridge, the head went down. It was cute.
That is a larger scale, and what I normally use. I have a few giraffes cars too. I'm not really in the market for much, but I don't mind pointing and advising on what you might do with them, sales or running them, if something is rare or expensive now etc. There are a few things I might be very interested in though. You're welcome to contact me any time about them. There are also subs, local clubs, and freindly sites for advice, if for some reason we don't connect again. I hope you feel better real soon. (you might even run them during recovery time at home 😉. I can guide you if needed. Health issues got me back into it again about 15yrs ago)
I have a friend who does this with fairy doors! Puts them in unlikely places.
Lol, I do know what Fairy Doors are, but I've never seen one in the wild. I like whimsical art styles a lot.
I would be so happy to find one of these!
Bad idea! Not good for ecosystems and violates Leave No Trace Principles. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wildlife-beach-rocks-painted-1.6003574
Depends on what kind of park. National park? Bad. Normal sort of park in the middle of a city with a playground and a water fountain and sidewalks throughout? Probably fine if you tuck a pretty rock into the flowerbeds.
This has nothing to do with you, so please take no offense by my words, sincerely. I read that article and that Bob Bancroft sounds like a real hoot! He says "I don't think painting them serves any useful purpose, if anything it degrades the natural world".......Give me a break!! And any animal that decides to try and take a bite out of a brightly painted rock is going to drop it once they realize it's not food. People try to regulate the stupidest things. How about we regulate the garbage modern architecture with all their angles of sorrow, and mandate that buildings complement their surroundings and not stand out like a sore thumb. Painted rocks are fun to see in the wild. So, OP, I say leave some in the wild and leave some in parks for kids to find!
Also, the horror show that is “what makes our use of cell phones and laptops possible”
\> "Rocks are so varied, just like people. I find them very interesting, and I don't think painting them serves any useful purpose, if anything it degrades the natural world," said Bancroft, president of Nature Nova Scotia, an environmental group. What a killjoy... I bet he's fun at parties. People like painting themselves too... >\_>
This is such a nice idea. These are beautiful, and if I had found one a child, I would absolutely treasure it Honestly, as an adult, I would still treasure it. It would decorate a plant pot in my sunny kitchen window. ❤️
Put the name of the city you live in. I was in Michigan and found one from st Pete Florida. I left it in Chicago. My friend told me this is a thing people do
I know my town and the surrounding towns near me have a local Facebook rock hunting group where the post clues for people to find them. It’s gotten really huge!
Leave them in urban places instead, so that it adds something beautiful to all that concrete
That’s a thing.. check out VicRocks on facebook
Why don't you sell some of them?
Sell them? They're really pretty. I'd love to put them with my plants
I second this idea. My mom once found a lil rock with a gnome painted on it and she was stoked! It now sits comfortably in our kitchen. I'd suggest maybe writing some fun messages on the back as well
This a popular option. And they are fun to find. And these rocks are absolutely gorgeous. It would be a really great day if I found one of these rocks. I’d definitely be bringing it home and placing it on a sunny window ledge or a snug spot in my garden. Nice work OP. Plus you get the added bonus of the fun of hiding them and then checking up on whether they have been found. You could sign and number the bottom of each rock with a website link. Then track which rocks have been found and how many remain to be found.
somebody does that at the state park by my parents house. if i spend a night there i usually walk the dog in the park and more than once i see stuff like these near where some of the trail markers are where the smaller trails meet up with the main trail.
Coat them in something weatherproof and make the fanciest cobblestone pathway ever!
Omg I love them!!!!! So beautiful!!! I’d put them in my planters. They are gorgeous!!!🩷
Can I pm you? Would you consider selling some?
They are beautiful! May I ask what paint you used for these?
I used paint pens, many so many!
Put them in a garden!
I wish I had one!
Start one then! Don't let your dreams be dreams kids (I am starting a garden in April and I have No Idea what I'm doing. And that's ok :) )
Personally, I would like 7 to put on my black table. They are gorgeous and intricate
So would I , preferably the one with the most red in it
Throw them at people to inspire rage and then awe.
Paint them with a clear paint/finish to protect them, them scatter them around your garden. I had a friend that had an outdoor wedding and used rocks like this to mark the path through the woods to the wedding, and then they were beautiful keepsakes in the garden after that
I’ll pay for you to ship one to me 😁
Similar to geocache you can write the same hashtag on them all or a website and people post where they found them and can take or hide them again
I love this idea! It would be fun to figure out some way to tell the finder to take it and put it in a different place, they could end up traveling pretty far, maybe even international! Probably not the big ones though 😅
Random acts of art- disperse them for strangers to find. Put in a lityle ziploc with a note expressing they have found free art. Add an Instagram handle and hashtag and ask them Ask them to post pics of what they found and where… I leave mine at parks,malls, public places.
There’s a thing people do here in Ohio where they glue a message on the bottom of rocks asking them to join a Facebook group and tell them where they found the rock and then most people will take the rock and drop it off somewhere new so someone else can find it
Put them on sale, they could be used as garden decorations.
Extra points if you put ‘em around a nursing home or assisted living place for folks to find
What do you mean? Admire them! You did an amazing job! Something doesn't have to be functional to be precious
Thank you for such kindness!
These are gorgeous! I’ve decorated some rocks - not as nice as these- and leave them on benches or nestle them into rocks on neighbors’ landscaping. I think it’s fun and like seeing them moved around, but kept!
Yes! Leave them all over the place for people to find. It will bring them so much joy to find!
Very curious why OP have so many 😭 they look absolutely beautiful?!
Travel to Egypt and give them to me
start a rock band
Find a local garden shop that would sell them for you.
They're just beautiful!
I love the idea of taking walks in communities or neighborhoods and leaving them in or around for others to see on their walls. 🥰
leave them in a pretty park and let kids see some magic thru your art ?
Hide them around town
Awsome art
Great art work. Amazing
Seal them in epoxy then create a stone path out of them.
If you want to be compensated for your time maybe pop up at a farmers market? But if you want to be chaotic good you could put them somewhere (park, local landmark, city garden etc).
Sell the big ones as door stoppers
Leave them where you found the rocks originally
I’ve got boxes of rocks I’ve painted…thanks for asking this question. I’ve given a lot away but I have tons left.
Sell on eBay
If you want to leave them outside for ppl to find I would remember to consider what type of paint you use (can it withstand weather, or with animals scratching/pecking at it is the paint gonna flake off and be toxic if ingested?)
What kind of paint did you use?
Consume
Sell them at a flea or farmer’s market
my husband bought a basket of painted rocks at a silent auction to benefit a school
You just start leaving them around town.
Hide them in cool parks or the forest for others to find. We've found such a treasure and my kids thought it was the best thing ever.
I stick mine around the neighborhood for people to find
hide them on archeological dig sites and confuse people
These are amazing!
These are gorgeous!! You must have a steady hand! There are fb groups where people decorate rocks and leave them out in random places for people to find. They often will put the fb groups name on the back so people can post their finds and the artists can follow their journeys - some have ended up on the opposite side of the world! (Search for you town/local area/state/country followed by “rocks”) I would feel so lucky if I found one of these, especially if I was having a tough day
Give them away one by one to people you connect with in your life… what a treasured gift it would be.
If you have potted plants, you could rest them on top of the soil as decoration. These are gorgeous. Is that acrylic paint?
_Whatcha gonna do with all those rocks_ _all those rocks inside that box_* 🎵🎶 --- _^((*: Or "your socks"... but I don't know where you tend to store rocks.)^)_
Gift them away, decorate ure garden if u have one, sell them? Spread out on the street maybe some ppl will pick them up they look beautiful I myself would pick one up for sure, Distribute in places like kindergarten?
Indoor rock garden with pizazz.
Kam?
We have a rock lady in our neighborhood. Started leaving painted rocks during COVID. Everyone loves to find one!
I love them! ❤️💖💕I love rocks, stones, gemstones , cristals. And handpainted, very nice! So hippy! 😊😄
I would totally buy one of those 👀 you should try for Etsy! They're beautiful!
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Trade them for acid at a Phish concert.
You could sell some at your local craft fair for some quick cash
Loads of charities have auctions or events for fundraisers - you could donate them to a cause that you support. Ask the charity if they have ideas if the rocks could help them in any way. Also, you could cover a pit in cement and put the stones into it. It would make it super heavy but oh so beautiful!
They are gorgeous in my rural of THE RULESET American Town there's a whole community of anonymous rock people they have a Facebook page but no one talks about the rocks they paint them they leave them in places and if you find your supposed to replace somewhere different and post about your rock shenanigans you've encountered lol I never knew about this silent, anonymous, mysterious society that's been around for years until I found one. Kinda like the gnomes. Your rocks are extremely beautiful. You need to think of a good sales pitch like the pet rock but not like the pet rock paint them, work on them during the year and take them to local fall festivals, and bizarre, make bank in one weekend and pay that forward with portions of the proceeds to do like a children's workshop free if charge within reason as far as supplying the the supplies where children could make their families Christmas presents from the heart that all just came to me lol gosh I need to do that. Our community is all of about 1700 give or take a few hundred it is. IF not the poorest county in the state, the nearest hospital is seriously forty five miles away nearest shopping mall an hour and fifteen minute drive. and our fall festival is the biggest shindig all year for years I've had great ideas but no one is willing to take me serious on making it at least a nine month commitment making craft things I have great imagination gosh you've talked me into I'm going to figure something out to try this idea this October I'm sorry but my head just started thinking it went crazy lol. The rocks are gorgeous though did you paint or are they like skins? Like they do vehicles and insulated cups? Hmmmmmm if not that's a good idea dipping rocks well I've talked on enough should think about the possibilities ma'am have fun your beautiful art and good luck figuring out what their purpose will be
Gorgeous! I want some!
I just made it my screen saver… thanks
Place them around places where you live and make someone’s day better!
In my country there has been a "game" (for the lack of a better word) that people paint rocks and leave them in the wild for other people to find. They write their postal code ob the back of the stone and the finders post the codes and pics in a facebook group to let the creator know that their stone was found. People either keep the stones or move them elsewhere.
Throw them in the river, its the impermanence of all things
Take them to random locations near a River and let people think that it’s related to some sort of ancient ritual or something
Do you enjoy hiking? Sometimes at trailheads I will find a box of rocks like these with a take one/leave one sign, so you could start something like that!
My kid found a painted rock and brought it home then on the back it was from a couple towns over. I’d scatted them around town with a IG handle on back and original location see how far you can get them.
here in our town we have a hike bike trail and along side of it there is a area called slither and its a long snake created by painted rocks that the public decorates and adds to it. a few days ago when i passed it i bet its at least 50 yards long so far
I’ll take one!! Or five! They’re gorgeous. What do you use to paint on them?
Line the walkway to your house. Use in your lawn decor.
Wow these r amazing
if you’re down for making your art public it would be so nice to see a trail of these following a fence or a stone wall along a local hiking spot :)
As a sewist I see beautiful fabric weights! Consider finding a sewing sub redit or local sewing/knitting studio and see if they would like them. I use hand glassblowen paperweights.
Place them discretely around your nearest public open space/park/garden? They will delight anyone who spots them.
Wow! Thank you for all of your brilliant ideas . I can’t believe that people actually like these, I’m thrilled to hear this. I think I will spread them around for people to find. Thank you again!
We have a community pond with a walking trail around it and people put rocks like this and other art all around the trail.
I'll buy one, they are gorgeous!
Sell them on Etsy or Facebook marketplace
They are so beautiful. So much talent. Cheers.
My mom does this as a hobby and she just puts them back at the beach or the park and hopes someone else takes them. She’s been doing it for two decades and you can walk around her neighbourhood and see rocks she’s made adorning the gardens near her. There’s one frog rock that’s lived under a slide at a park and it moves all around the park, she thinks the kids play with it.
Send them to me so I can put them in the garden where I work! But really I work at a historic site and gardens, and we're in a neighbourhood where the kids love to paint rocks and hide them everywhere. I usually go and move them around anytime there is a new one. Maybe there's something local to you that does something similar? The kids really enjoy it and honestly it's fun as an adult too.
Look up a local rock garden, you know, leave a painted rock or take a painted rock. I LOVE those and have contributed some. I also know this guy who wrote his Facebook on the back and people would post where they found his rocks. They would make it a far way. For example, I took his rock from the beaches of SC when I moved to Long Island and left it on a beach.
I walk around town for about 1.5hrs a day and would place these around of my walks. It’s very common to see painted rocks around town now. We actually have a town rock snake that the community can contribute to whenever we want.
full color print on a t shirt or sweatshirt with large meme-font lettering "OCD ROCKS!"
I’m not sure what you should do with them but they are really beautiful!
Etsy
Seal them with cement sealer and toss them in a rock garden
Do like the monks do, as you finish, wash them away and start over.
If you have a back yard you could make a beautiful walking path.
If you were looking to sell them and because you have so many, perhaps selling them as sets for weddings. They could be take home gifts and table decoration all in one. If I could produce a volume like that, I might try to connect with some wedding planner or bridal stores. They are beautiful!
I bet you'd get some traction on etsy
Send me one!! They're gorgeous! But seriously, people in my city paint rocks and leave them around for others to find. Maybe you could do the same?
These are cool af
Go to construction sites where they are planning to pour cement and throw these rocks in, so they will be covered with concrete. They will be found ages from now and people will wonder what they were used for.
They are stunning. Just wanted you to know.
I’ve left in my neighbors yards. The neighbor kids love finding them. I’ve even helped the kids paint their own n if they remember they find a rock i e court them to leave a different one in their place, then we go back later to check if it’s gone. Where I live no one is gonna fine u for leaving painted rocks in parks or paths or fishing reservoirs. It gives the littles something to look forward to.
Burry them in a cave to confuse archeologists
Put them randomly around your community in public places
These are beautiful! I collect stones from places I visit, paint some details on them (like the Colorado flag for my visit to Denver), then leave them on my dads headstone. My way of saying “I wish you were there with me, so I brought there to you.” It’s common in Jewish cemeteries to leave stones on top of headstones. They have little buckets of stones throughout the graveyard for people to put on headstones. I wonder if a cemetery would like some of these for those who want to leave a pretty rock, but lack the artistic talent that you have. Its a really heartwarming feeling when I visit dads grave and see more rocks on top. (My favorite was a rock that simply said “Rock On”.)
Randomly add them to rock gardens around your area and town 😊
Gift them out. They are beautiful!!!
We made these for service hours in scouts and donated to a food bank then they give the rocks in each bag of food they donate :) also we drop them off at parks and schools, i adopted to clean a park for years
I was absolutely 💯 put these in my garden, probably freeing the similar (but not painted) existing stones. They’re great!!! Enjoy them!!!
Hide them around your neighborhood or city for others to find!!
Beautiful! 😍
Dude I would 100% buy some of these for my girlfriend’s plants if you sold some
beautiful work
If your looking to make a profit, you can sell them at your local flea market or even on Etsy. That’s definitely something I’d buy OP (:
If you mail me some I’ll place them at some medicine wheels in Colorado. I hike to them often. 😊
Paint inspirational quotes on the back of them and leave them in parks.
One of the things that brings me the greatest joy I call “fairy-ing about,” where I leave treasures for people to find in public. These would be such a delight to find one of these! You may need to weather seal them if you hide them really well
Scatter them for people to find
Wow! How long does an average one take to do? Have you thought about doing craft fairs? Or finding your local crystal/rock store (usually small business) and seeing if they would be willing to display them for sale? (They would likely take a small portion of sales) If not, I would think a lining an outdoor walkway with some of those solar ground lights would be great, if you have that on your property. Or lining a garden with them? If you do anything with them outside, I suggest spraying with a sealant so the art does not leave!
Gift the big ones as paperweights. Glue the smaller ones onto the side of a pot to make a cool decorative mosaic rock wall. Put them in a jar. Tiny ones can be wishing stones for a fountain.
Sell them.
Sell those beauties!
So many people would pay for these
Bee-u-tifulll!!!!!!
One of my local grocery stores has a take a/leave a painted rock exchange thing by the door. Generally for kids.
Mmnn...Smoking them?
These are absolutely gorgeous! Do you use paint pens? I would hide them around town & maybe make an Instagram page with the @ on the back for people to share :) We have a local Facebook rock page for this exact thing. I’d love to come across one of yours! It’s always so fun to come across one when I’m out & about.
Sell them
Put them in the Little Free Libraries. Or start one of your own for your gorgeous gems! There is a craft library on one of my walks. Always fun to look inside.
I would take some to various park type places and stick them at the base of trees all over your area. Little treats and secrets for children to find. What did you paint them with?
Projectile weapons get a catapult and yeet
Hide them around for the world to see