Hi, Dena. Yes those are the nippers you want but I think you can find them at that price or lower without bidding. Check out www.staniedglasswarehouse.com for a good sale on glass right now. They might also have some nippers on sale. I've bought glass tiles from www.mosaicartsupply.com.

I believe you can find descriptions of the different kinds of glass on spectrum.com or delphi.com. If you have a stanied glass store near you, I suggest you shop there so you can see the difference in the glasses. I've bought tiles online but no glass yet. Spectrum is a very nice glass to purchase so at first you might want to try that. My preference is Spectrum irridized glass. It cuts nicely, and they have quite a variety of types.

I mosaic on wood, metal, concrete, terra cotta, but no plastic. Well, let me not tell a lie, I recently did mosaic a plastic soap dispenser with the realization that it was an experiement to see if it held up.

My favorite mosaic materials are broken things. I really don't care what it is glass or ceramic, I just like the idea of taking something throw away and making something wonderful. As for what to mosaic on again my favorite things are broken things, a table the glass is scratched, a jewelry box that is past its prime, a wood bowl with a split etc. again saving the item from the trash and making it not only usable but admired. As for glass I am clueless, I have a bunch of scrap but i couldn't tell you what it is or where to get it other than some stained glass artists will give or sell you their scrap. I use bottle glass too brown and green mostly(watch out for the painted bottles tho).

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When I bought ready-cut tiles my favorite places were, as D3 mentioned, Mosaicartsupply. His sheets of vitreous glass are the least expensive I've seen, and he has them in lots of colors. Mirror tiles were from Mosaics by Maria. She has wonderful colors and lots of sizes. I cut my own tiles now - mostly from Spectrum. ROSIE and I recently visited a SG store in Little Rock, where we found a plethora of other glass, but I mostly stuck w/Spectrum and bought LOTS of the colored mirror sheets. When Hobby Lobby has glass on sale, I buy there. I use a LOT of jewelry in my projects, and other found objects - washers, keys, buckles, whatever. I have picked up things in parking lots, on the street, wherever I can find whatever to put in my work. Anything except plastic is fair game for me to mosaic on. I, along w/CALAMITY, KLINGER and ROSIE, went to Mexico for a workshop w/Riana and learned to build our own objects to mosaic. It was very satisfying to make something from scratch recently, and I plan to do more of that kind of work in the future, rather than searching out things to buy. Once you start, your ideas w/multiply rapidly, and you'll not be able to keep up w/your lists.

If you can find a SG store near you, that's the best thing to do for glass. Beware though, when you see it all in person, it's hard to quit buying!! LOL

So far I've bought tiles online, no one favorite, though. Look more for the color I want, then price.I'm determined to get this glass cutting down pat so I can cut my own!

No limit to what I'll mosaic ON, glass, metal, wood,concrete anything that won't flex

Maria