I love it! What's a flue tile?

Slo where do you get those tiles. That is going to be beautiful. Bevinpa

Really pretty slow, love the design and the shape of those flue tiles. That's going to be an awesome pedestal!

Hazie

FANTASTIC! I love the colors and the flow of the design! totally Slow style!

hey guys, Flue as in Chimney flue, these tiles are the liners for chimneys so they are to be had at masonry supply companys, or hardware/home improvement stores

It IS SLOW design for sure! Cool!

Oh Oh Oh!!! Looks Great!!! AND you just gave me an idea for a flue I have sitting around here! I'm not going to try and glue the one I broke, it'll have to be used as is, but probably still be mosaiced, but I do have one the same size as yours that I think I'll do an ocean theme on as I am now inspired by this and the ocean theme GOG by Balje. The deer have come in and decimated my yard!!! So it's hard to be working out there right now! But I did have fun letting my two mutts loose to chase the deer this morning! 9lbs and 6 lbs of ferociousness bounding after the deer! And The Pink dog(6lbs) in the lead!!! Too Funny! Hey Slow, what color is your dog!!!

Slow-do you draw out a design before you start glueing? Your stuff always comes off so full of color and has so much movement. I would love to see your stash of tesserae!!

Phew - yard done and now too tired to mosaic in the afternoon. This chimney liner is a very old one of my bro's. He has another one, and he'll use them to flank his entry as plant stands. They are double the height as the ones I used on my DD's tower - 13X13X24 inches. BEV - I got the new ones I used on DD's at a brick company locally. They are terra cotta and almost an inch thick - VERY HEAVY. CALAM: My D DAWG Toby is variegated - black/grey - in Doxie world - marbled or mottled. SUNSHINE: Only thing I drew on this was the swirls for the mirror tiles, and a couple diamond shapes, but left those diamond shapes for a more go crazy design. Actually - there's no design. My main theme was the mirror over the large central colored diamond shapes. That's about the only thing I'm happy with on this one. Haven't a clue how I'll do the other one. Thank y'all for the comments.

Correction - drew the large, central diamond, as well as the swirls.

Anothe beauty!And all Slow sure wish I could wing it like you do...Annie

Another WONDERFUL project Slow. I agree with Nice, I love the colors and flow to your design. It's good to see you posting a finished project.

Barb

Holy dawg snot and shoot a monkey!!
Slow..I started on my pedestal last night, and after seeing yours, I just wanna throw it away! You have such a talent for "winging it".
I just started glueing (thinset) glass and blobs everywhere and it looks like CRAP. I need a SLOW course on design.

Excuuuuuuuuuuse me, BAMA - as I told another fabulous mosaicist today via email, you don't DO CRA_! Thank y'all for the great cheering. Makes me feel like it isn't so bad. I think my bro w/like it better than the original ugly. Now, I'm open for ideas on what to do w/the second one. I'd like to continue the swirls but can't stand to do repeats of anything - too boring, - couldn't if I tried, so any helps/suggestions on how to treat the second one w/be much appreciated.

Vertical bands of color. With a bottom and top horizontal border of cobalt blue and gold. Thats what I'm seeing. Some bands with wavy edges, a band of globs, mirror, etc
Kinda circus-tenty.
Yes, I had a vision...now I must go rest.

ATTENTION: There were no actual monkeys shot during the posting on this forum!!! Thank You and now back to you regular postings....

Love this pedestal, Slow.It's just beautiful, and I love the colors and design, lucky bro.
Cindy

Another beautiful SLOW original. You're our swirly girl! It's just beautiful.

Well thanks again, y'all. BAMA - this is uncanny, absolutely weird. I was already thinking of bands of color, or some scallops - vertical, horizontal - how many scalloped bands???? Just couldn't get it together and hadn't thought of the colors. This is unreal. A circus tent it shall be. Many thanks for confirming my sorta beginnings of an idea. I believe it was Laurel True who did the little circus tent on HGTV, and I've wanted to copy that concept ever since I saw it. As Bill Engval says "here's the sign". Delivering this tomorrow and w/come back Tuesday w/the other one. It's gonna be hard to stay three days - my usual time - cuz I'm so anxious to run w/it now. BAMA - we'd make a great mosaicing team. Wish you lived close by.

That is soooo beautiful! I wish I could mosaic like that! I just can't seem to wrap my brain around the abstract style, everything has to have a pattern for me. I love the way you can use so many different shapes and sizes and nuggets and have it turn out so beautiful! I don't think it's something I can learn, I think either you "got it or you don't" and I don't "got it"!hehe. I LOVE your stuff!

She lives close enough to come to the Slow & Rosie Mosaic Convention next spring!!!! heh heh!! Guess we'll have to nail down an official date for this Extravaganza....

Still catching up... Beautiful Slow! Just love your patterns

Maria

Thanks again, y'all. I'm back from delivering the pedestal. He loved it, and is looking forward to receiving the next one. I brought it back, along w/a giant concrete rooster he plans to put on top of this one. He raises fighting cocks, and this rooster, hopefully, w/resemble the prettiest one I could find in many that he has. Pics w/follow of the concrete giant as soon as my HM comes to help me unload it. I stopped in West Monroe at HobLob on my way home yesterday and bought another $117. worth of glass to fill in colors I didn't have for the rooster. HATE buying glass not on sale.

Just beautiful Slow. Can't wait to see what you do to the next one. Mmmm, bet you got some beautiful colours for the rooster.

Cindy

I found a small glass place in McKinney last week. I bought some scrap glass, some of it is really neat and will be fun to do something with. I thought cock fighting was illegal.

It is, LIL, in every other state. LA is the last state to outlaw it, but it hasn't been finalized yet. There's a lawyer in ____ that's trying to get an injunction on stopping the law they've passed but doesn't go into effect until ???.

Ohhh, do we get pics to look/drool over?!! Here is a pair that's waiting to be mosaiced, maybe You'll inspire me to do them!!!

Here is a link that might be useful: {{!gwi}}

HM hasn't come/called to say when he'll help me unload it, so had to practically stand on my head to get this picture of the rooster - still in the Jeep. It was sitting in putrified water in a birdbath so needs a thorough cleanup but here it is - stands 33" tall.

Can't wait to see the "Slowmedown" treatment on that one!!

Maria

Boy, that is one BIG chicken.

Slow
I cannot wait to see how you do that rooster. With all the texture on it, it would drive me crazy.

On the pedestal...I love that! The bright green glass is very eye catching! May have to find some of that color to play with.