Black and White Paint Horse

Originally did this to go in my office at work, but have since hung it in our bedroom.  We are changing the wall color soon and this will go perfect with the color that I have picked out.

Mantel and Hearth

Don't you love when you have a vision in your mind and then it turns out exactly as you thought it up.  $30 cypress board with the live edge that we picked up at the flea market on our trip a couple of weekends ago.  Well, here's what we did with it.

We have 2 of these, they came from an Antebellum home in Vicksburg that was being torn down.

The larger squares are tile samples from my friend Nancy.  I used all of the squares that I had and then used brown glass to fill in on the sides around the square.  

Madison aka Madi the Diva Cat

SOLD

A custom order on her way to North Carolina.  Hopefully Cecilia won't pop in and see this before she receives it early next week!  Went out on Thursday, March 20th.

14 x 14

The only special items are the back painted florescent green and a few pieces of turquoise iridescent glass.  The rest is regular stain glass.  And a few beads.

Light Switch Plate

Used the top of a beautiful Ginger Jar.  It is the gold/green/brown speckled pieces.  The brown/green mottled pieces are from a decorative leaf dish.  The lime pieces are from a saucer.  3 pieces of vintage jewelry.  The other pieces are beads (glass and plastic) some are from bracelets, gems and a couple of earrings.

Door sconces

I'm not sure if that's what they are or not, but we are calling them that.

I made these to go beside our door because the V attached to the header was so large.  We found that red is really popping with our new wall color.

I used 2 decorative cut outs that I got from Michaels.  The bottom one is painted with Hammered Aluminum paint.  The top one is painted with the Metallic Silver Paint.

The red beads are off  faux pearl necklace.  The top/bottom diamond pieces are earrings.  Also, the middle red pieces are earrings.  The square red stones are from a bracelet.

2 horses running

36 X 24

The white horse's body is a XMAS frame.  

The black horse's body is part of a vase.

Both mane's are necklaces.

There are 2 colors of grout.  Dark brown on the bottom in the gravel.  Sand colored grout of the rest of the piece.

This mane is not grouted.  I painted the board metallic silver and glued the mane down after grouting.  I added some bugle beads in the gaps.

Neptune

My first mosaic, most people start with something small.  As you can see, I had to jump in full throttle and start with a huge project.

Neptune's body is made with plastic disks that were cut off one of those door curtains.  The kinds with beads, etc. that are strung and hung up in door ways.

His face is composed of seed beads.  His triton is gold beads.  Blue mix seed beads and aqua rocks suround him.

I also used several different colored glasses, included back painted and tumbled glass.  Rhinestones on his tail.  Glass gems and some beads.

Mermaid

Horseshoe Mosaic

Made for Mike who is one of my Farrier's

14 X 14

2 horseshoes and 1 horseshoe nail, rocks, the fleur de lis came from a ring, the white/brown crosses and tiny gold squares were from earrings

2 colors of tile flooring - a tan and a Terra cotta.  Broken/Tumbled/Backpainted glass.  Stained Glass - brown and white.  Plastic and glass beads.  A few pieces of white vase pottery and white plates.  And a few acyllic gems.

Merhorses

I've made a merhorse for each of the horses that we have or have had.

Fooler and Panama are now angels.  They were still part of the herd and are in our hearts.

These horses will be incorporated onto a large board as an under water scene.

1/24/14 update
took a picture of Ice as a Merhorse.  He's the last horse we bought and I realized I needed to make a mosaic of him.

Fooler as a Merhorse

Fooler is also an angel.  We lost him on 10/6/08.