TA DAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our granddaughter Cepeda helped with the egret panel by gluing in the last of the sky and the green bank behind. It was so great to have her in the mosaic studio lending her wonderful and artful skills. Our other granddaughter Frankie (in the back behind Ann) busied herself organizing and creating on her own. Such talent!!!

And TA DAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Introducing Miss Charlotte Elizabeth, egret extraordinaire.

  Ann N. is shown here working on a very detailed panel of flowers.

Notice all the tiny, tiny pieces.

Also, notice part of the air flow in the white tile - see it?

It's a handle from a white mug!!! Clever girl.

And TA DAHHHHHH!!!!!!

The finished product! Amazing kaleidoscope of color and design.

Ann used beads, tile, parts of a mug and glass buttons to make her art piece.

 Betsy made a "jillion" cuts to make insect legs and dots and feelers

and chose leaf and sky colors to accentuate these wonderful critters. 

And TA DAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Only one little lily to finish so it matches up with the panel next to it.

Sarah spent last week end thinking about her panel of birch trees.

It needed a squirrel!

So Tuesday came and Sarah asked Betsy to design a squirrel for her to mosaic.

Sarah used some round tiles and other bits of tile for the body and bushy tail.

The eye is a bead that she cut to piece in. Wow! It really worked!

Isn't he cute?!!! His name is Frisky after a childhood pet squirrel of Ann's.

 And TA DAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Here's Frisky climbing in the birch forest.

He's soooooo happy to be here -

and Sarah is very pleased to introduce him to the mosaic.

Never let it be said that those in mosaic studio only do mosaic.

Sarah brought "Show and Tell" the other day.

These are 2 1/2 inch squares sewn together to make a beautiful quilt top.

Kind of looks like a mosaic!!  Nice work, Sarah.

 

I made a little frog out of pottery from Ann.

Ribbitt.

 

Can you find him in the panel below?

Anyway. The frog has been getting various eyes - they keep changing.

First they were purple (as above) and she became Elizabeth Taylor.

Then they were something else but they weren't showing up very well.

In the panel below, they are something else again,

but they're not showing up very well.

Must find frog eyes before too long; this critter needs to see! 

Story to be continued

 

I'm trying to make this panel look like the sun is setting.

It will be at the far western end of the trough and is next to  the egret. 

 Ann made a red winged black bird to go in a panel she is about to work on.

The colors vary to bring out the beauty of this bird - to give it depth.

Notice the beak, the eye and the feathered look of the wings.

When the glue is dried, she will cut it out and place it on the proper panel.

 Ann N. the artist.

Helen manages to make flowers look so elegant

with much shading, cutting and color choice.

Kind of makes you want to go and pick a bouquet!

The hummingbird was made by Helen a few weeks ago on a separate piece.

After the glue had dried,

she carefully cut it out and placed it on the panel where it belonged.

It's a process that we've figured out for various intricate birds, animals and critters.

It seems to work well.

 It's been a good week in the mosaic studio.