It's amazing! I love it - you did a mindblowing design for your first project! beautiful!

WOW !!! IT's awesome -- and so intricate !

I'm reaching through the computer and giving you a big pat on the back for a job well done !!

Gorgeous table! Love the colors, and the design.

It's totally Awsome!!! And that's the first project?!! You're a natural.

Here's a clickable link to her very lovely table.

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Great Mother of Moses!! What a great job you did.
Keep on wowing us!

WOW!! EXCELLENT JOB!!! Love the grout color too!! Don't forget to seal it!!!

Can't believe this is your first !You are a pro already how beautiful is this!!!!!!!!!!!Great job Annie

Wow!!!
That's quite a project! Beautifully done quince!

Hazie

What everyone else has already said.

Pardon me while I dig my jaw out of my socks! That is absolutely stunning!! First project, huh? Gal, ya got some good things in your mosaicing future!!!

Pat

Let me clarify...that was my first MAJOR project. I've done a few flowerpots with just a hodge podge of whatever I could glue to it and I've done some small tables with a college emblem on it. But this was a big undertaking...that's why I was sweating bullets.

Thanks for all the KUDOS. You guys are so incouraging. See, now I have to dig my bottom jaw out of my socks when I see some of the things ya'll have done. I think ya'll are amazing.

And Calamity, I'm going to seal this baby for sure!

Thanks again
Lu Ann

LuAnn, I love it. Lots of nice details in that moth. What a pleasure it will to use that table.

That turned out just perfect!!! Hopefully you get to put that in a spot that is used often!!! Great job!!

From the new girl who has several simple things started but not completed, I'm in awe! Congratulations! Suz

Beautiful job, I love your moth!!

Maria

That is too awesome! Congratulations, quite an accomplishment. From all the detail, I can tell it must have been a lot of work. Lovely piece.
Anne

Yes, as ANS said - a lot of work shows in this piece. It's just spectacular. I like how you stopped the design where the top wings seem to overlap, giving a 3-D effect, and your background to the moth is very well thought out. In fact, it appears that so much thought was given to where you placed EACH teensy piece. A very professional job and a truly beautiful table. You should be VERY proud of this piece.

Thanks for all the kind words!! Oh but remember I stoled the design off the internet. I can't take credit for the design....I printed, traced, and copied. But still it WAS tedious. This coffee table is going on our screened in porch which is well used.

Here was one of my first pieces....you will recognize this...sorry it is turned sideways...(also Calamity, notice the stains...I didn't seal it...didn' know to)

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s215/quincelover/things%20that%20make%20me%20smile/100_5543.jpg

Lu Ann

Ooooh Quince, I use to think that using a pre-existing design for a mosaic piece wasn't... fair? Lot's of people 'borrow' images, patterns, and color schemes even - I think the art is what you DO with them. You did splendidly IMO, and how you did it is original - your color choice, materials, placement, shapes, detail, etc.

LOL - I think I'm trying to justify something! (See my thread - Newbie challenge - on a table I'm doing and the original design is a photograph of a plant I found on the internet.) But seriously, I'm new to mosaics and not too confident in my creative abilities just yet. Using a pre-existing pattern helps this newbie get started!
Kudos,
Anne

Ooooooo, QUINCE - another nice piece. Is that VT-Vermont?? Very nicely done. I like the outlining effect. Don't see any stains on the grout. Is that an off-white grout? If you're not afraid of bleaching it, why couldn't you spritz a teeny bit of cholorox on the stains?

Oh slow honey the VT is Virginia Tech, my husband is an alumni. I thought ya'll would recognize that after what happened there. The stain is on the "T" (black). Yes the grout was an off white. Thanks, I'm going to try the cholorox.

wow! that is great! you did a really nice job

Me too,WOW ! I don't think I could do a regular design, I just sit down with a bowl of broken pieces and glue! lol, I'm so envious!

Wow, Wow, Wow! Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!