WHEW!!!!!!!

Today, we got caught up in our thinking, once again and

re-worried about the spacing between tiles in our designs.

It's really important to have enough space for the grout

 but not too much space!

Holy cow!

I placed calls to my two mentors, Greta McLain (left message)

and Pastor Luisa Caballo (teaching a class).

Then texted a close-up photo to Greta who texted back:

"It will be fine.  Just can't use too much thinset or it's gonna be really hard to clean"

So our worries were softened a bit. Work ahead will be intense.

WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!

 

These are my Lady Slippers with some rather close tiles.

But how in the world can we get the details without some tight spaces?!!!

This will be one of the pieces that will have some extra care given during installation.

 Could there be a prettier goldfinch - ANYWHERE?

Ann is making such a splendid piece of nature.

Just look at those bird legs and the air movement.

And those pretty flowers!

 Cori has done her best work yet on her fish.

Love the use of mirrors and the aqua was a perfect choice to go with it.

This fish will join a myriad of fish in the Community of Fish on one whole panel.

 So beautiful.

These flowers have had careful choices made and Helen is making them so pretty.

She is using some of the tiles we picked up from Mosaic on a stick.

We were running out of certain colors and

St.Paul's church didn't have any more of those colors.

Plus we picked up a couple of other tile-y stuff that is being put to good use already.

AND Rob's niece Amy Englund brought us a great big bag of

glass "buttons" and sea glass.

Lucky us.

 Betsy has finished her panel with the final birch tree

so Frisky can scamper to his heart's content.

Something in the Rain Garden has startled him -

See? He's still as can be and looking out at us.

 Randy came back! Yay!

He came in armed with two pictures of fish from an article about

ancient small sculpture - this photo is of an oil holder.

So, I've got the story sort of mixed up but maybe Randy will enlighten me again.

Anyway, can't you just see the scales on his tiled fish?

They also will be part of the Community of Fish.

 We had a good week in the Mosaic Studio.