And here's my stab at commercial art:

It's not installed yet. I was going to install it today, but we got some tile in for a job we'd been waiting on, so of course, the customers come first. But as soon as it IS installed, I'll post pics.

Absolutely meritorious.

Thank you very much, everyone!! I was pretty impressed with it myself, and that takes alot!! That's why I couldn't wait to show it off!! :-)

As for the star, I'm doing one of those in the floor, too-- a 7 foot by 11 foot compass rose.

So far, it's taken me just a little more than a day to cut out the template, and then cut out the letters. Now,when it comes time for me to get back to it, it'll take me about another day to cut out the field tiles where the letters will be inserted, and then probably a few hours to install it all, atleast.

And I even know where Bridgton is! :-) (My cousins live in Lovell)

... isn't it time you learned to write cursive yet? Don't they teach you anything up in Maine?

No, I'm being obnoxious because that is just splendid! I don't understand how you can make those concave cuts. Your scroll work is better than my handwriting!

Kitchenmom-- That's been suggested many times!! If I were still single, I probably would, too. But I did the traveling thing-- years ago going around the country doing malls, and up until a year ago last october, around New England doing restaurants. It's no fun only seeing my wife a for a day or two a week. :-)

namabafo-- yep-- right around the corner!!

and now, Mindstorm!! :-) Maybe next time on the cursive (which is right around the corner)!! There's a major lumber company that's moving their home showroom about halfway between my house and the showroom. I was already supposed to be doing their bathrooms as well as a couple of kitchen mockups, doing the backsplashes and even a couple of granite tile countertops. But it just so happened that when I laid the logo out to take that picture, the owner came into the showroom. Now I'll be doing the fron entry of THEIR showroom, as well, complete with logo! :-)

Oh-- I almost forgot-- an update-- The house where we were waiting for the tile that finally came in-- I went over this morning to start doing the tile and apparently the furnace had a flaw and shut down, so I ended up back working on the showroom today. I'm about 3/4 of the way done cutting in the floor to lay in the logo, and tomorrow I hope to finish it up, as well as cutting and installing the compass rose (which once we got it laid out, ended up measuring 8'x12') so hopefully, I'll have some more pics tomorrow night.

Just out of curiosity - do you have a lot of cool tile in your house? My friend, who makes cabinets, works like a fiend on his gorgeous wood projects but his own house has basic builder stuff :) He says he'll get around to it someday...

Anna-- actually, the only comment I got was it looks nice. I have a feeling that it was expected because they know what I'm capable of.

I'm so hitting you up for info when it comes time for me to tile my new showers AND the marble mosaic floor in the powder room. You'll be around won't you??? Please? pretty please?

bravo!
Ivette

Ivette

Just wait-- I was talking to the owner of the showroom this morning. He's building his dream home right now-- gonna be alot of design granite going in, and one of the things we're discussing right now is in the front entry doing a 4' diameter compass rose with a 4" band encircling it, and inlaying the letter "G" in the middle of it (his last initial). When it happens, I'll post pics. :-)