Very pretty,love your colors and design.

I love the color and design as well It looks like its already ready to go outside! I would give the same advice I got on my last WIP, paint and finish the parts that are to be tiled, then decide what to do w/ the bottom. If in doubt still - post another pic and do a poll!!!

Me, I would cover everything. It might hold up better outside if the wood is covered. Nice work with the tiles. Like the color combination.

Thank you! I guess my big concern is to do a mosaic on wood when it's outdoors. All the advice I've seen says don't do it because the wood can swell and pop off the tiles. The wood is primed and I will coat it with a sealer, but not sure if that is enough to keep the wood from absorbing moisture. I will also sit it on a cement stepping stone so it's not directly on the ground.

Hmm, yeah after a while it probably would pop off, but then after so long that wood is going to rot so you'd have to replace it anyway. I guess I am just a mosaic fool and don't like one inch uncovered.

You know, I think I will just mosaic the wood too. It will be easy to replace the wooden pieces anyway when the time came. :) Thanks for helping me work it out in my head...LOL.

Love the color combo! So sunny, yet also royal!
I'm for the painting it and seeing how it looks and then deciding about the top and bottom.

I love pedestals, that's going to look so nice when it's done, great job so far!

Oh, boy. You really have a wonderful design going on there. On the wood subject, I've had a pedestal of cedar that was in my front garden w/the house numbers on it when I moved here five yrs. ago. I took it down, stuck it in the back to think on what to do with it later. A year/half later I was bitten by the mosaic bug, and my thoughts immediately went to the pedestal. I used a heavy amount of mortar to adhere all the pieces on, then used the same for the grout. A few days/weeks??? later I notices some hairline cracks in the grout. I re-grouted (mortar) those areas, and it's still standing as it was the first day I proudly called it done. It sits on a concrete pad. I've noticed no change, and this has been three yrs. I'm not telling you to do or not to do mosaic on your piece, just giving my experience. Only two disasters I've had are in Esmeralda's hat and the pot on top of the pedestal. On the hat the terra cotta saucer sorta fell away from the mosaiced inside, but not completely. No time to repair it. The other was a pot I had on top of the blue column. I had moved it from the pedestal cuz it was too tall, to my front garden. All the pieces fell off this winter. I'm blaming it on the way I sealed it - w/glue and water. The large pots near my swing I forgot to seal are still intact. What is the material between your top and base?
Wooden Pedestal three yrs ago and today

Thanks again everyone.

Slow - I believe the pedestal is made of some type of resin. DH works for a building supply and they have a bunch of these in storage. Most of them are damaged so he brought home two of them for me to mosaic. There is a metal pipe up the middle which extends on each side which is why he had to make a top and base to finish them off. I think they were designed to be set in concrete.

I see you did a mosaic on a terra cotta chimney flue? I have two of those too that I wasn't sure I should try to mosaic. Did you seal them first? I'll have to do a search on here and see if you posted it. I was unsure if I should mosaic them since it's so cold here in the winter. I wasn't even sure they would last the winter outside plain, so I will see how they look once the snow melts and then decide what to do with them then.

OH, I love your pedestal! Your design is awesome! Very detailed.........!!

my only mosaic on resin is on my back porch,falling apart waiting to be redone.2 large pedestals that i spent a long time on.I used liquid nails and it didn't hold and grout starting getting big cracks finally felloff.I am going to slather mortar on them and redo someday soon.good luck it's so sad to find your work falling apart.

I've done several flu tiles. Our climate is mild in winter. No, I didn't seal them. The ones you saw in the "Queendom" album were very old ones for my bro. The ones in the "Shea's Tower" were new ones I bought here. I used six to make the tower.
Tower in the making

Tower Installation

Gorgeous tower, this is going to look so good. I'd mosaic the wood too, but maybe paint or seal it first to help slow down the moisture getting into it,
Cindy

Well, it's ready for grout. I plan on using a grey grout. I have another pedestal just like this, but I think I will wait and see how this holds up outside before I do another one.
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WOW!!! That looks fantastic! Love the kinda swirly bit!

Holy dawg snot!! That's beautiful! You did an excellent job on your tiling.

I like that you did both the top and bottom. I think it finished it off better than just painting them. Can't wait to see it grouted, especially the swirled area.

This is great! Love the colors.

WOW! Tiling the top and bottom was the best idea!
Love that swirly middle part....can't wait to see it
grouted!

That is sooo beautiful! Grey grout would be perfect IMHO.
Bianchi

I love the swirly part, looks like it's spinning!!

Your pedestal is beautiful! I like you mosaiced the whole thing too & the swirly part is different & I am loving it!

Grout that puppy!!! Dying to see it in all it's glory!!! Good Job!!!