I like to get a lot of stuff ready to grout before I dig in. I always mix up way too much!
I love your trees. I think I'm gonna have to steal that idea from you.What about just smooshing glitter into the grout before it dries?
The flamingo box is impressive. How long did that take?
Love all the other stuff too!

Nice projects! Love the trees with the long pieces of glass!!

It's so easy to out off grouting isn't it?

Like that birdbath, too!

Maria

WOW - somebody has been VERY busy. LOVE all your work. That flamingo is a super mosaic - the side is wonderful too. I hope I can hold my enthusiasm about copying your idea on the trees. I REALLY like the one w/the rectangular cuts. Great way to use scraps and I have lots of them. That TX star is very attractive. I've had one for about a year, waiting in line TBM. Cute pumpkins, and oh, tell us about that sunflower tray process. So much to see I haven't seen before. Great work, SUN.

Glad to know others are up at the crack of dawn. No wonder you get so much done, Slow.

The tray is a $2 thing from an antigue mall. The sunflowers come from a vase I picked up at a yardsale for .50. When my oldest son's girlfriend was here she admired the vase and seemed appalled when I told her my plan was to bust it up. I am thinking of giving her the tray for Christmas. Still have some flowers left that I want to use on a box.

I wanted to experiment with the glitter in the grout. The glitter looks like pieces of sea salt. It's supposed to be antique white grout-looks very blah on these pieces to me. Don't think it added much. The pumpkins were another experiment with thinset and styrofoam. By the last tree I just quit thinsetting altogether-styrofoam only. Hope to get the white glitter grout and do the trees today.

That star got raves and I sold it for a ridiculous amount of money (to me anyway)for what I put in it. I have another I want to do in red/white/blue. The pitcher I did in red with gray grout also sold for more than I ever thought it should. I didn't argue about price, just smiled and took the money.

I am quite proud of the flamingo. Still not sure if it's a christmas gift or not...maybe I'll just keep it!

Sun...your sister won't like it if you keep the flamingo instead of giving it to her!!!! LOL

I loved looking at your stuff. I just did a pumpkin too and I also did a couple of skulls. I'll post pics in another thread, after all, Halloween will be here before you know it and Christmas is right around the corner! I really liked your Christmas trees, great way to use up scraps!

Barb

those pumpkins are so cute and I am all about my halloween decorations. I think I am going to make some of those.

Ok, I must confess that my six year old helped a great deal with the pumpkins. I cut and tumbled glass and he glued. We had GEII on everything. I made him wear a mask while he did it, which he thought was cool. Not sure it saved any braincells though. The clean up on them, which hasn't been done yet is gonna be killer. He is so proud, I would do it again, and again. He has some serious talent if you ask me, but I'm biased!

For sure Sun, he is talented like his mom! He did an awesome job on them.

Barb

Great pieces Sun...love the trees with the stars and the flaming is fantastic.I really love it!

Thats awesome that you got your son to help you!!! He's the masked mosaicer!!!

Cute stuff..I can't believe that Christmas is so close!!! Groan..I better get started!!!