You lucky duck, CURB. Great job on mosaicing, CRAFTY. Cute idea to cover the holes w/the half marbles. Nice design.

That turned out greatCraftylady! Love the colors!

Want to know something funny? I did the handle on mine the EXACT same way! LOL!!!

I was wondering how you got the can on the 4th!!

Didn't you get your frying pan first too????

Great job Crafty!!

Maria

It actually got here yesterday, but since I had to drive thru several areas where there was major street flooding, closed roads, etc., DH was so worried about me that he forgot to tell me until late last night. Took awhile today for me to figure out the new camera, so just got it all done!

Pat

I love the orange glass accents! I am developing a thing for orange lately! Very exciting to see the first water can! Nice job, Crafty!

Aw, that's just great! I'll start a gallery for the incoming pieces later tonight.

Nancy

LOVE it! Very nice job crafty. The plate tiles are really pretty. Curb, you got a beautiful can!!

ooooohhhh aaaaaaawwwwwweeeeee!!!! sorry I'm in a fireworks watching frame of mind! It's wonderful Crafty - very pretty!

Oh, it's wonderful. I've never used the Van Gogh glass but I want to. You did a super job.

It's wonderful,I love the colors and the glass you chose. Can't wait to see more of the swaps,
Cindy

Beautiful!!! Lucky you Curb! Good job Crafty!!! Klinger just lent me a book on mosaics that tells ya how to add gold leaf to the back of clear glass to make your own van gogh glass, I'm excited to try it as we don't have that glass here.

Re adding stuff to the back of glass - I noticed on another forum yesterday that someone used fabric on the backs of half marbles. When I was working on the shrine for my DD, I put a printed number off a calendar on the back of a large glass glob, so have been planning to add other things, including gold leaf. The number REALLY shows up well, and I have a ton of light, clear globs. CALAM. Could you share the Van Gogh technique from the book w/us?

I've used paint on the back of various glass when I could not find the color I wanted. It works very well, and so does fabric.

Gorgeous !!! I can't wait to see more !!!!

ohhh I can't wait to see this!!! I'm at work and photobucket is restricted! AAAAHHHHH!!!

Just this weekend I painted gold leaf on the back of clear glass. It worked great!

Oh wow....beautiful first can...love the colors ,love the design.....top notch!!!!!!!!!!Congrats Pat...Great job crafty lady......Annie

Crafty, that can is so cute! Love what you did with it.

Hazie

Great tip about painting the back of glass to get the color.

Crystal.. I know how you feel!! My work blocks photobucket, too and mad's gallery. Somehow webshots and a few others get through!!

Maria

Whoops, I plum went to bed last night without creating the gallery first. It's ready to go:
Watering Can Swap

Maria, it's too bad these websites are blocked for you. ;-(

Nancy

Only at work, Nancy. I still have my home computer... I just have to wait!!

It just cracks me up when it says "inappropriate content"

Maria

I'm glad you like your can Pat! I knew you would be getting it soon because I mailed it Saturday morning. It figures I was the first one to get my can from TMG, and my can was the first one received! LOL

Thanks for all the wonderful comments from everyone. The glass that Pat thought was Van Gogh is actually a crinkle mirror glass.

Here's the pics that I took outside of the can, the colors are a little brighter and maybe the crinkle mirror will show up better.

Barb

Here is a link that might be useful:

Oh, wonderful shot in the SUNSHINE!!! Wish we had some of that here....makes the colors really stand out!! Thanx, craftylady!! BTW - LOVE the crinkle mirror glass!!

Pat

I love those orange GG they really pop out at ya

Mad, thanks again for the gallery. It's so fun to see them in one place.

Craftylady, that really does pop in the sunshine! Beautiful!

WHAT A DIFFERENCE THAT SHOT MAKES, CRAFTY. Completely different. BEAUTIFUL. Oh, yes, thank you MAD, for making these albums.

The natural light really shows off the colors! Lovely!

Maria, well the P.O. isn't far wrong about PBase. For the most part they do keep out the porn, but there are a lot of fine art photographers (and wannabees) who do nudes. Most photos of that nature that I've seen over there are actually pretty tasteful. They just wouldn't be appropriate for the workplace. So while I give your employer a boo-hiss for locking you out, I do understand it. ;-)

Thanks Nancy it's great to see everything here in one place...Annie

What beautiful cans!!!!! I can't wait to see the rest!!

another real beauty:)

This is a beautiful can!!!! You did a great job...

Just catching up on all the watering cans....everyone did just a great job....it's so much fun to see them coming in.

craftylady - soooo pretty! I love that you combined so many types of tesserae - with the different types of glass, different sizes of glass globs, china.....very clever, very pretty.

CRAFTY: Loving it! Colors and design are WONDERFUL!