I'm planning to buy my son a kiln, for pottery, unless he changes his mind. It's a serious hobby for him. I thougth that I might want to sculpt a "rock" with birdbath, and places to put small bowls with seed, suet, and such, forming a "hotspot" for bird photography. Because of the photography, in particular, this will be sculpted to look much like natural rock. I may also do a fake "tree stump" in a similar fashion, to make a small platform feeder, and custom feeders to be "concealed" in the crotch of a tree, with a real or simulated branch on the exposed side of the triangular feeder. I've also thought of imprinting leaves to provide texture and design on ceramic stepping stones.

Any "obvious" ideas I haven't thought of yet?

Please, no gnomes, or other "cute" figures... Not my style...