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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Glass Mosaic Maple Leaf WIP

My Egret Mosaic is on the back burner for the moment waiting for my mosaic muse to be inspired again for that project.

Meanwhile, I have begun a project I've had kicking around in my head- working title is "Autumn Dance". A portion of this mosaic features a maple leaf and the following is a series of pictures showing the piecing of the glass in a portion of the leaf. Click on the small pics to view them larger.











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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Stained Glass Mosaic Tiki Hut Birdhouse


tiki hut mosaic bird house The summer challenge for the Etsy Mosaic Artists Team is to mosaic a birdhouse. My daughter (she's nine) was my design assistant for this. We have done two other birdhouses together- painted though.

We had a pre-made house and she made this sketch:




As designs do, this one evolved.


This is the result of our collaboration:






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