Underwater Mermaid/Fish and Turtle Mosaic

before grout and without mermaids and turtles


with grout - no mermaids or turtles



Finished - ready to hang







plastic mermaid doll covered in polymer clay


polymer clay turtles


another mermaid doll covered in polymer clay and a couple of more turtles


treasure chest found in a thrift store


Polymer clay lentil beads


small pottery pieces


a tiny garage sale urn
rocks from Brushy Creek
Shells from Florida


various colors of stained glass - sheets in blue and mixed with green
small glass aquarium gravel
the fish are garage sale finds - the small ones were from a bag of earrings
the larger fish had a shower hook in the back
a blue plastic squid from the package of one of the mermaid dolls
Polymer Clay lentil beads I made when I was on a lentil bead kick
white 1/2 globe white glass gems
small pottery pieces from a garage sale
rocks from our creek
larger colored glass blobs from Sister Sharon
Shells from Sister Sharon
glass pearl beads
small treasure chest from thrift store
rocks/beads/gemstones/jewelry/glass elephant/metal discs and a sword pin in the treasure chest
the top of a ring next to treasure chest
and a urn/vase from a garage sale
Polymer clay turtles I made from a two piece mold set
and the mermaids I covered in clay that were shown in another post

and a picture of my love bug Scooter inspecting the new mosaic

Cutting Boards #3

more cutting boards made by my husband


this one and the one below are new patterns he developed





more cheese boards and a cutting board

Cutting Boards #2

These are samples of the cutting boards that my husband makes















These are samples of some of the cheese boards he makes

Cutting Boards #1

5 cutting boards made as XMAS presents for family and friends






a cutting board made in a weave pattern for our kitchen

Weave Butcher Block Counter

this is the 2nd counter top that had been installed by our gas cook top
the original counter top was granite tile


My husband decided he wanted to learn how to make a weave butcher block pattern
He decided to practice the technique and replace the above counter top (again)

He bought a stack of exotic hard woods
this is how the counter looked after he cut the board strips and glued them together the 1st time


you would not believe how incredibly heavy this was.
those hardwoods were super dense
ready to be cut and placed into a weave pattern for the next glueing


The finished counter top.

Diving Bell Mosaic

ungrouted


grouted and cleaned up

I used a large glass green coaster for the port hole
Several types of Copper and silver metal for the details and to define the areas and shapes
black stained glass, back painted gold textured glass  and turquoise stained glass
a few glass rock pebbles
several different buttons which are the star, the round ones on the bottom edge and the anchor buttons
and some rusty parts I found in the shed

it is grouted with Sandstone sanded grout

size is approx. 20 wide by 18 long


it is hung up in our master bathroom
over a Pour Painting that I recently learned how to do


and it is near my octopus mosaic

Wall Sconce make over

.50 cent garage sale find.  It was dirty and missing some crystals.


cleaned up, painted, crystals replaced and added an art glass piece

Octopus Mosaic

A fairly large piece.  To be used in the master bathroom.

Ungrouted









His body is gray stained glass
The eyes are 2 large acrylic gems
At the top of the tentacles are silver/gray acrylic pearl beads
The suckers on the tentacles are discs from the hanging room divider curtain
There are a few pieces of gray/black tiny small glass aquarium gravel scattered thru the tentacles

The water is several colors of stained glass
Also used aqua, blue and green pieces of aquarium gravel to fill in spots on the water.

Deer Wall Hook Holder

I made a wall hook holder for my husband to hang his ball cap on.








I used some acrylic gems
a few glass gem blobs
faux pearls
a few mother of pearl pieces
some metallic plastic pieces
The white glass was broken vases that were tumbled in the rock tumbler to make sea glass
White Plates
Some lime china pieces
the brown pieces are from a coffee mug

The deer piece actually came with a wind chime, but we never used it to hang the chime from.

Fairy Girl Mosaic

she's 18 x 30

this is ungrouted

I finally grouted the last of the winter mosaics

grouted

Her face and the one ear are made from polymer clay.
There is an old brooch/pin on her forehead
her eyebrows and the markings on her face are bb's
Black gems for pupils/white glass shards around the pupils

The leaves in her hair are from pins that I found in at a garage sale in Terry when I was out junkin'.
I also used some rims from some floral plates in her hair

her hair is black mardi gras beads and black stained glass

green mother of pearl for her gloves
more bb's for the swirl designs along with small green glass tiles cut in half

her body, arms and legs are differentiated by leather cord and those parts are composed of tan stained glass

she has leather cord straps across her neck

the rest of the picture has several kinds of stained glass, broken pottery, beads and acrylic gems

Cross

Custom Cross for same customer who got the Blue Bird Mosaic

before grout

after grout

white stained glass

2 different dinner plate patterns

various sizes of acrylic gems

faux pearls

a button at the top

mother of pearl pieces

mini mosaic tiles on the sides

grouted with Sandstone Color Grout

Bird and bird house

custom order delivered to a man who owns one of the largest bird house manufacturing companies in the U.S.

Heartwood - birds, bees and boards

created with various colors of stained glass
acrylic beads and faux pearls
mosaic tile squares
tile that looks like a plank of wood flooring
backpainted glass glob gem from Mr. Larry
cut pieces from a plate

approx. 12 X 18