1/2 of our team (the other half, obviously) paints stones with landscapes, animals, flowers... and leave them in caches. They are snagged up rather quickly and the comments that are left in the online logs are truly inspiring. Brenda even painted a piece of wood for a local cacher to add to a Travel Bug
The Brenda Stone TB
One issue that we have been facing is that since her painted stones are so sought after, sometimes they are taken out of the cache container by unknown folks without logging it as taken. We know this because we get e-mail from the next cacher that visited the site and was disappointed that the stone we left was gone and nothing noted in the cache log since our visit.
We still log our swaps, Brenda just looks at it as flattery.
Dan