I'm just playing with the letters, and shapes of the tropical flowers. I hate the bird of paradise, it bears no resemblance to a real one, and i've been playing for a couple hours, just can't see to make it click. oh well. nothing glued down , just seeing what looks good.

Will be using Irid. pale sun from Maryland Mosaics as background tile You might be able to see the one freebe tile I got from Kathy that got me hooked.

Our house in now named Chez Fleur De Mer , instead of the previous Beach Flower House, in honor of our fabulous time at a B&B in Loire Valley. Not a literal translation, but perfect for us and our very own B&B!

Kathy

( I added the link to your photostream)

Kathy, let me get the pix of the post and post it. Sorry for stupid pun

Slow, yes indeedy,a longggggggg project.

Kathy

Silva, yes it is supposed to be hibiscus, i was trying for plumerias too, but haven't got the leaves smooth enough.

Calamity, Slow, Klinger, Texas. Thanks i played around with the bird yesterday evening and got it looking good until I figured out what was wrong , was the color of the flower, need to be oranger.. so gotta order some more tile.

just ordered the background from Maryland mosaics. why did i have to pick the most expensive..??

Still i keep repeating after myself, this is the front post of your house, you have to make it look good or else no one will ever come visit!!!

I'll take a pix tomorrow to update

Hope to do better when I start from scratch. I can see these photos now hope you can if not, just go to my outside mosaics And thanks so much for all the kind words. It does mean a lot to me. Thanks

Also, a pix of Flag inspired concrete block. Will take another pix tomorrow of tops and other side. I used all of my ugly duckling ceramic tiles on the left side, and then added some cool tile I got from the tess exchange from Silva.

HOpe this link works we'll see

Kathy

I'm exhausted. we're painting some walls for Christmas guest. but i had to get some progress.

I used plexiglass as the orginal beach flower house sign. After a few weeks , it was dangerously close to buckling, so changed gears and decided why no the whole post!!!!! and this is where i am

Still looking for a place to hang my original sign..

YES!!!! my name is mermaid and I am a mosaic addict!!! I can't stop .
ROFL and it sure is fun!!!

Silva, got your email. Thanks.after i check out those sites, i'll send you a reply. just love that color.

Daisy, you are such a sweetie. You are one talented artist yourself.
Didn't get to work on the post today but hope to tomorrow. I did tweak the words a bit, that's all though.

A day without mosaics is a day without color. I just made that up. I think i'll make that my signature. LOL

Kathy

decided that wedi board would be perfect substrate, and why not mosaic the ENTIRE post. No way would my body survive mosaicing the post outside so.. that is where we are..

Kathy, oops forgot to answer . the original signs were about 4" wide and 24" long, there were three of them and it would have only covered one side of our post, this way, I am covering all 8' and 20" around when you factor in the wedi board thickness..

Got my iridescent. pale sun tile today so I HAD to finish one of the panels right??? On my it is GORGEOUS glass,I love it even more now, despite the sticker shock!!!.

Here is my first panel with everything except grout. Could use some help on grout colors???

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Here is the lastest update. Took these letters apart so many times the wedi board was gashed. Word to the wise, don't use much mac glue if you think you might want to change your design with wediboard!!!

Anyway, here is the last few days progress. Not the best pix with all the glossy tile but I think you can read the sign now.

Kathy

I plan to install and then grout it . Not sure of grout color, any other ideas?? I am thinking gray or maybe a brown, though I don't have any brown. Still after all of this, I want to get it perfect.

i've been using thinset and it is so messy for this work, but I couldn't think of anything else that will hold the tess when they are vertical.

here you go. also did a grout test, you can see it on my flickr site

I hope to use the grout sealer in a week and then maybe spray with several coast of acrylic to keep the gloss. What do you all think of using clear acrylic like Krylon that doesn't yellow??

There are several pix of the various sides of the column if you look at my flickr site.

Kathy

Kathy at Maryland Mosaics told me that Organix sun tile had the glaze baked in so it should stay that way for quite some time.