Why mosaic? Let me count the reasons... When you are working on a mosaic, there is no pandemic. There is no street violence. There is no stress. There is nothing but color, texture, and design. It is a true escape. It's so much fun to see a new pattern developing!It's also fun to see the …
Yay! The sea animals are finished! It's taken just over a year, but we finally made it! So let's take a few minutes to review the project, and share a few more bits of mosaic info I've learned along the way.This photo, taken on February 10 of last year, shows one of the reasons why …
...and a few new revelations! With all of Foster and Panda's recent adventures, you may have thought I had forgotten about the epic sea animal project that's been going on in my bathroom. But nothing could be farther from the truth! The first thing I would like to share is that I finally went to …
I thought she was done... But I guess I should have known that with Mom you never can tell. So when she started bringing home all these little blue tiles I had a feeling something was up. The blue made me think of the sea animals mosaic in the bathtub. If you read "See? Animals!" …
"I just want to drink coffee and make pretty things!" I've used that quote before, in "Coffee and Pretty Things", but it is so true for me that I had to use it again. In fact, I think I need to change it to "I just want to drink coffee and make everything!" So I …
I was so pleased when I got this blue and green glass... Because I really wanted to make a peacock mosaic! Actually I made two. This is the first one, which is still not finished, because the tray needs to be painted. But there's nothing in the "Tracy project manual" that says you have to …
Have you ever noticed that most teachers never throw anything away? Retired or otherwise, it seems teachers can always think of a possible future use for everything. Or maybe it's more accurate to say we're pretty sure we might think of a possible future use for stuff, and when we do, we will be glad …
...while it lasted! So I got this idea back in January. I had seen pictures of tall mosaics that looked like a series of houses one on top of the other, and they looked really cool to me. Immediately I thought "I can do that!" And, since there were several long two-by-fours in my back …
Remember this? Yes, it's the famous toilet from "The Art of Being Big Girl Continued"! If you remember, it took me about three days to change out the toilet in the guest bathroom. My first thought was to put the old one out on the curb for the yearly neighborhood trash pick up. But we …
The Sea Animals are finished! Hi everyone, this is Foster and I'm here to show you our finished sea animals mosaic. Oh, the title? Well that's what happens when your mom used to teach beginning English learners. She got thinking, that there were a number of ways to say "sea animals", all with different meanings. …
Nana's Whimsical World 