Article: Garden variety bowling balls

For more than a year, Delores Lisy has been collecting old bowling balls and converting them into yard gazing balls.

AURORA -- It's not unusual for people driving past Dolores Lisy's house on Aurora's West Side to do a double take. Some even stop. And when they do, they will often buy one of the glowing objects that caught their eye -- one of Lisy's garden ornaments that she makes out of old bowling balls. "I sold three one day and two the other day," she said of the glass- beaded garden globes in turquoise, sky blue and even red, white and blue that seem to catch the fancy of passersby -- especially on sunny days.

More than a dozen of these balls on pedestals accent the walkway to her ...

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