Build your own water fountain!

Alright 2 words - Feng Shui! Yeah baby! So I got the FS kick and decided to build me a water fountain. Heck who does not love the gentle sound of water trickling down all day along, especially when you gotta go .... haha!

Okay so how do you build your own little water fall? These are things you will need:

1. A submersible water pump, I got mine from Stein's Garden and Gifts store. You can also get them online.
For example: http://www.water2garden.org/little-giant-water-pump/

2. A pipe that will fit into the pump out and is long enough to bring water from the bottom to the top of the vase

3. Rocks of various shapes and sizes. Clean them after you collect them.

4. Water

5. A Vase to hold the pump, the water and rocks


Here's what you do .... fit the pump to the base of the vase. Fit the pipe to the pump pour some water and connect the pump to test if it works. If not go back to the store and go "why why why you sell me bad stuff huh?!"

















Anyways, if it works ....empty the water, take the rocks and one-by-one fill the vase with rocks so that you have volume for water to collect on one side and the rocks are on the other side. This will take time and requires patience. In fact this task is an exercise in patience : )

So, take your time, arrange the rocks and when you have them all in place - pour in the water and start the pump. If you have left space for the water to collect then the pump should push water out and it should fall into the remaining volume with that 'waterfall' sound!

Remember ... depending on how dry your home is the water will evaporate faster or slower, but it will evaporate and eventually the level will drop. A brilliant thing ...to NOT do is to let the water level drop below the pump's collection point ....otherwise the darn things tend to burn out! So assuming you DO NOT want the pump to burn out, fill water into the pump.

Oh yeah and if you have plants in the house, 'wick' water out of the fountain! Brilliant!