He is a very handsome guy. I am sure you will do him justice as usual. I think he would be fun to do.

Keep us informed on this one. I like frogs and he is a fine speciman

Love his expression! He'll definitely be a cute addition to their garden. Good carving on the feet and on the lilly pad.

Pat

You beat all. W/be a darlin' project. Anxious to watch this one, so huuuuuuuuuury. It's about time you get to feeding us.

Oh this is going to be great!

love your froggy, got any new pics? looks like you made some progress in your shop, if you have room for froggy :-)
bonnie

It just feels so good to be mosaicing again!lol! Here he is so far...slow going as I gotta nip with my left hand cuz of the tennis elbow...

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

He does look romantic Jane...like he just poured out his heart to his lady love!

Well, from a frog that looked to me like he'd kicked the bucket for sure to an emerging prince! Wonderful!

Ha! He does look like he's dead in the first pic...but now he looks like he's pleading his case to his lady love!
Ahhh, he's a sweetie, Jane. Looking forward to seeing him done!

Love the froggy!!! He is really pining for his love, obviously. LOL

Can't wait to see how he evolves. He is so adorable!!!

OMGosh, he is so cute, hurry up, wanna see more :-)

He is coming along great! Just got his underside and back to do and then get to work on the lilypad...(with a shameless plug for Klinger's fireplace screen that now lives at my house!lol!)

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OMG! That fireplace screen is AWESOME!! And Mr. Romance is coming along great!

Switch to plan "B"...heck, I didn't even know there WAS a Plan B!?! Scrap the styrofoam lily pad and cut a green pc of slate...cut the porceline tiles in the sorta leaf shape I envisioned...(is it me or do they look like a split leaf philidendrum?lol!) Will glue this tile on tonight and tomorrow will grout everything...probably with black grout...maybe...maybe there will be a plan "C"??? hee hee!

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

Wow, Jane, you have another great looking critter!!

I like your lily pad idea

I'm really impressed that you've been able to keep the frog's personality while you're working with the piece. He's so fun. The tile choices are great..so froglike! He IS looking like he's ready to stop posing and be DONE! I used to sing "Some day my prince will come" ...maybe he'll hop my way!

Your frog is SOOOOOO cute, what a character! I like the lily pad too. Is that an unmosaiced pot in the background????hmmmm

Froggy obviously knows he's in great hands, Just look at his face!! He's going to go on to bring smiles to many people's faces! He's such a charmer!! Fireplace screen is beautiful Klinger!! I love it! Jan

Well, just finished grouting...had a bit of a debate going on in my head as he is for the tile store owners, and so I went with the outdoor grout choice of black. This isn't a great pic but as usual I wish I'd done something different! Wished I'da used green grout but didn't have outdoor green and they only sell outdoor grout in 25lb bags, I only needed a cup. He is what he is as Slow would say....I do like the lily pad on the slate...

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

I like the lily pad and the black grout is okay.I would have chosen green too, but black will do. You don't have to buy outdoor grout silly, use thinset and color it with concrete colorant or acryllic paint. Thinset is outdoor grout, so save yourself some $ and color your thinset. You can use grey and go darker, white to go lighter.
Love him and he is welcome at my pond anytime.

Wow, I forgot how fast you work! He is just A-DOOR-A-BULL!
He does look nice as is but if you wanted, could you do a color wash on top that black to lighten it up a bit?
The lilypad is perfect!

Thanks Girls! I was torn to use that super nice thick pc of green slate but it did turn out great! I think I am just used to making things blingy and so he is ho hum to me!lol! I am planning to sneak into their tile store and leave him(and my card) sitting on some tile and sneaking out, and letting them notice him on their own!!! hee hee!!! Don't know if I can pull that off but I wanna try! I think the impact would be so cool!!! Today I'm going off to visit Cozy Cat(who I met here on the GW) and we get to decorate a community hall...using my rooster!!! I got DH to haul him into the car and he is sitting in the passenger seat all buckled in!lol! Nuthin' like taking your art work for a ride!hahaha!

cal, that's cute idear, i like to sneak up on em also :-)
they'll love him.

He came out great, they will love him!!

Oh My God!!! Calamity j ! That is just too damn cute!
You make me want to redo everything in my yard!...
WATCH OUT NEXT SUMMER!!! THAT FROG IS UNREAL!

He is soooo cute! You did a great job, I'm sure the tile people will be thrilled! Can't wait to hear their reaction.

I know this was LAST YEAR....but, for those of us newbies...I wish the photos stayed. Who is this phototrail and how come they delete the photos? Does anyone still have pictures? Are they somewhere else on the GW site? :( Ah well, sounded so cute.

Gardencrone, I am only allowed a certain amount of pics in my albums so I end up deleting some to make room for others...sorry, but here are some pics of the frogs I do, a friend of mine gives me thses old frogs and I transform them...

Also here is a link to my albums if you care to peruse....

Here is a link that might be useful: Jane's album

Frog are great but as I was snooping in your albums, the cake caught my eye.
What did you use for substrate? It is lovely!

Styrofoam!!!lol! Same with the little cupcakes...they are styrofoam balls cut in half, glued to a little ceramic dish that looks like a muffin cup! The cake has all those old porceline flowers from england. I made a big teapot once that was plastic, I coated it with dishes and mirror and those flowers, and the friend I gave it to, has had it for about 7yrs, it's starting to look a little sad now, but she said it has been a showpc in her yard!!! Wish I had pics of it....was on a old computer, didn't transfer files....

Beautiful work CALAM!!! Just beautiful all of it!!! What a great yard you have....

Thanks sweetie.