A guy doing some yard work for us gave me a couple small cedar slabs. I'd just gotten my first lathe and the cedar looked like it would lend itself to a bowl. Accordingly, I bandsawed a piece out of the slab to the end of making a bowl.
It seemed like a shame to toss the waste, so I sanded it and recommended the guy use one of the globes he had hanging in his yard on it. This is what we ended up with, for his yard.