This came to me from another list. I hope it helps someone somewhere. certainly is a unique idea!! :-) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= I have a little time so thought I would write the instructions down for you in the simplest form that I can so that the beginners may understand them. To someone of you it will be old hat. Now, if you have a marble breadboard or just a hardwood breadboard, measure it and add four inches to both the length and width. Now you are ready to take that use pallet or some 1/4 inch x 4 inch boards and saw them so that you have two board the length and two boards the width. Now nail them into forms. Hammer them together lightly for you will later be knocking them apart. Set this form aside. Now take a piece of paper (I use copy paper) and write or print (what ever you do best) on this paper the name of the person who you want this stone for and the information that you wish. Under the date of birth and death, I usually write the place and also wife of - or husband of - or son of - or etc. with the appropriate name and information. Now, for some of you this next part will be a piece of cake, for other of you, take courage, you can do it, or if you wish, just forget it. Practice making a curve line with three cross's on it to put in either the lower right side of the stone or in the upper left corner. Or if the stone is for a child, you may want to make two circles with ears on the top circle and a tail on the bottom circle. You may make simple rabbits, cats, flowers, leaves etc. Use you own ideas but keep them VERY SIMPLE. Now, with a WASHABLE marking pen, put the design you decided upon onto the marble breadboard or wooden breadboard. If you make a mistake, wash it off and redo it until you are satisfied. It need not be perfect. This is a personal headstone and it gives a loving touch to have someone take the time to make it, a slight error is fine. Now take a dremell tool with a diamond engraving bit and engrave what you have written. It is fine without doing the painting step, however, I usually do. I take model paint and paint what has been engraved. If it is a little girl, I might make the bunny white and flowers (five little circles with a small circle in the middle and two line curving out from this) pink with the small circle yellow. For a little boy, I might make a little cat and paint it white - orange - brown etc with flowers of blue with small circle of yellow - the curves of green. When you have done this to your satisfaction, spray LIGHTLY with polyurethene. You can get a can of polyurthene aerosol at a hardware store or a craft store, let it dry and spray again LIGHTLY about three times. Set the breadboards aside. Now take the wooden forms and set out in the back yard on some grass where it won't be noticed, Take the bag of ready mix concrete and mix in a container, I use an empty 5 gal. detergent bucket. Pour this mix into the form up to about 2 inches from the top. Let this sit for a while until it is firm enough to hold up the breadboard, when the breadboard is placed in the center of the form and press down even with the mix. Now I let this concrete and breadboard sit overnight to dry. When the concrete is dry, knock the frame form away. I keep these forms for the next time I want to make a stone. Now take a small can of liquid polyurthene (you may buy at a hardware or paint store) and pour on the whole gravemarker, breadboards and concrete, smooth with an old paint brush and let dry. Your gravestone is now complete. All you have to do now is pick it up and take it to the grave and set it in place. I hope that you are proud of your efforts.