How to Clean Stained Glass Stepping Stones

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"ALLISON KLINGER: On behalf of ExpertVillage.com, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass. And we just poured our stepping stone and it's really super, super messy. Nothing about glasswork is clean, actually. So just something--have paper towels, wear an apron, wear your local stained-glass store's apron, such as mine, Western Art Glass. Anyway, I poured my stone. I cannot pop this out at least for a week. So remember, in the last segment, I said make sure you pour it somewhere where you don't have to really move it. Well, remember that I said--I put it on top of this dry wall. I'm not going to pick it up, but I can push it out of the way. How about that? Now, you can see my grout kind of floating around a little bit, so be gentle, okay? I'm just going to push it over here. I'm going to let that sit. I do have another stepping stone, though, that I've poured, also with white grout. I'm kinda feeling like white is--white is my color lately. So anyway, this is a smaller mold, a smaller design. Once it's all dried--I mean this is solid, okay? I'm just going to turn it down on the table, okay? And if you push right in the middle that will pop out, okay? Here is the stepping stone. Remember, we had our contact paper that held our glass to the top of the mold, okay? Find an edge. Just kinda be gentle, kinda pull this thing off. Yeah. Ta-da. Now, if you have any grout that has covered up a little bit of the glass, just take a razor blade and you can come along and you can barely just scrape it off the glass. No big deal, okay? Don't try and be too perfect about it. Nobody is going to notice it as much as you do. So anyway, this looks pretty clean. But the more you look at it, you can find more spots and it's like--don't go to too much work, just make sure that all your pieces look somewhat fairly uncovered. So anyway, ta-da. Garden stepping stone, isn't that cute? My little ladybug. Anyway, on the next step, I'm going to show you how to water-seal this and we're all done. So check it out."