New Mosaics

Just finished a mosaic marathon -- 2 small terra cotta pots and a heart shaped wall hanging. All are for sale in my Etsy Shop.

New Mosaic Garden Pot

Just finished this large clay pot as a gift for a friend. Can't wait to give it to her this weekend!

New Mosaics

I spent a lot of time after the terrible tragedy of January 8th in my glass studio working on a couple of mosaic projects. For me working in glass is very therapeutic and calming; and mosaics are a wonderful stress reliever.
Have been designing and creating quite a few Hummingbird mosaics to figure out which colors look best for the birds and surrounding design. It has been enjoyable. The sweet dog leash holder is the 2nd one I've made. I'm pleased with both of my latest mosaic projects!

Mosaic Garden Bench

I bought a concrete garden bench and spent this past week decorating the seat with an Iris design. Grouted it this morning and I'm in love with the way it turned out! Can't wait to move it to our front patio entryway area. Since it was a seat and would be used to sit on, I made sure all the glass is the same thickness. I used Spectrum, Gecko and Bullseye glass for the flowers and Spectrum for the leaves, background and border. Now I want to do another one!

New Garden Stone

I loved the stained glass suncatcher so much, I had to make a garden stone for my yard with the same design and colors.

Mosaic Dog Leash Holder

Grouted yesterday and cleaned up today. It should be a fun gift for my sis with 3 dogs LOL!

Grouted!

Grouted today and I'm glad that's done LOL! Always such a mess, I think it's the worst part of mosaics. Anyway, included a close up shot of the center area with the dichroic cabs I fused for the flower centers. Makes this piece fun.

WIP - Dog Leash Holder

Fell in love with this MDF base shaped like a bone. I spent today on it and only have the border edging glass left to cut and glue on. The hooks are removed until after grouting. The paws were made by a talented clay artist on Etsy as was the base.

WIP Large Flower Panel

Ready to grout -- this project has consumed 2 weeks of my time already...I thought I'd have it finished last weekend --Ha!
Hope to grout tomorrow.

New Garden Pots

Just finished these yesterday. The one on the left is for my Mom for Mother's Day, she's been hinting for a mosaic garden pot for a while now LOL ;o)
Hope she likes this one.

They are both made with broken china pieces and ceramic tiles. I love the ceramic flower accents on the blue and yellow pot!

Zuni Bear

I'm always looking for odd pieces of wood to mosaic and found this small piece in our garage (Jim never throws anything away LOL). Didn't know what design to make but saw a tile with a Zuni Bear fetish on it and went for it.
Not so sure about the grout color, but it is what it is at this point.

Butterflies in a Garden

Grouted yesterday. It turned out really nice, may have to put this one in my yard ;)

Garden Stone

We have a lizard that resides in our yard all summer long and I thought it would be fun to make a garden stone with a likeness of him sunning himself on our garden wall.

Mosaic China Hearts

Side by side:



Another side by side angle:



Blue China heart:


This heart is made with different blue china pieces, glass and pottery heart focals.

Lavender/Blue China Heart:



Although it looks blue the glass used in this piece is lavender/blue and the little flowers in the china pieces are lavender.

Sunflower Mosaic Garden Stone

Another Birdhouse

It seems I've been making mosaics only lately. I made this birdhouse using a random cut swirl pattern with iridescent purple and white glass. I wanted something different as an example for the class I'm going to teach this summer.
It turned out very different from the others, it has some sparkle!

Hummingbird Garden Stepping Stone

It's grouted at last!
I'm very happy with the way it turned out, the dark grout makes all the colors just POP.

New Desert Garden Birdhouse

I've been busy grouting and finished this new birdhouse. I used Plum colored grout and it didn't turn out as I hoped. The plum is darker than I thought it would be and the pink flowers on the front of the birdhouse don't pop out as much as I'd like.
Live and learn :)

Finished at Last

I grouted the garden stone early this morning while it was still cool outside. I'm really pleased that the grout color matches the stone color so well.
I know it's going to look great in Mom's new flower garden.

Garden Series Mosaic Birdhouses

After making a mosaic birdhouse for Karen with Brendan and Logan, I really wanted to make a few more. I call these my garden series birdhouses. I've already made two and sold one! They are a lot of work but I love the way they turn out.

I loved making these, they were fun and challenging.