Oh Look! Another House Post: or The Mosaic Project That Ate Portland

So, this first image is kind of weird but it gives a good overhead view of (most of) the whole mosaic.

You may remember the upstairs hallway from this post. Well, it’s changed a bit, as I started this huge-ass mosaic project over a year ago. This is not surprising, really, as it has already been established here that I can be…well, lazy. But, finally, I think the end is near. I’ve finished about 10 feet of it with about three more to go. Woo!

I don’t really have a lot to say about it, other than to help psych myself up to finish it already. For those interested, I purchased all of my vitreous glass and Italian iridescent glass tiles here. They have relatively good prices / shipping and I have been pleased with their tiles. For the adhesive, I’ve been using Acrylpro and I have a bag of sanded black grout all ready to go when I lay that last glass piece down.

Here are some more pictures:

This is the first section. There’s lots of lavender, an olive plant, a dragonfly and even some tomatoes. Since the window looks out over the backyard, there’s supposed to be a garden-like feel to the mosaic images, (even though we don’t have olive plants but they were fun to make).

It’s not exactly hard, per se but breaking the tiles can be time consuming and it does create a small hazard with any glass shards I miss picking up. So far, no major accidents except for the night I got a glass sliver stuck in the heel of my foot. Ouch! But since then, I have been very careful about wiping the counter and immediate floor area down really well when I clean up.

Here’s where I am now — more tomatoes, because I really liked how they turned out on the other panel. I have two more small panels of the repeating pattern to go and then two more panels of pictures. I’m still undecided on what to put in those but probably more lavender, olives and maybe a bee, as I have yellow and black tiles. bzzzzzzzz.

A food post tomorrow with some lemon custard cakes for Sugar High Fridays 12: Cooking Up Custard!