Statuary, outdoor-safe paint, and things like that.

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Hi...I have some pictures, and a question, in that order. :p


This is a little...dish-type thing that I made of Sculpey and painted, to hold my keys and loose change and random junk in.

It's got lizards! Here it is from various other angles...







Obviously I wasn't looking at any pictures of a real lizard as I was making it...the legs are funky. But as I enjoy making lizards, and will most likely be making them again in the future, I will learn from this!

Here's my question: my house happens to have a rather awesome garden (I'm not bragging; the fact that it's awesome is solely due to the guys who lived here before me) and I want to make statues for it. Erm...how do I go about doing this? Can I do it with Sculpey, and would that be safe outdoors in the rain and the hurricanes and all that? Is there another clay that I can use, maybe an air-dry one, or is that bad? One of those terra-cotta colored clays that I always see in Michael's?
And when I have craft paint that _says_ that it's outdoor and indoor safe on the label...IS IT LYING? Say I made something with Sculpey and painted it with this paint - would THAT stand up to the rain? Or do I have to put a glaze on it or something else? This enough questions for y'all? :P

If anyone could inform me on these things, I would seriously appreciate that...I am DYING to make statues of odd things and put them in the bushes to scare people. ^_^