Flower Mosaic: Finished

Here is is, the finished mosaic. I think it came out ok considering I didn’t really put much thought into it before starting.

I still need to finish off the back so it can be hung but I don’t think we’ll be finding a home for it for quite a while. As I made it as a personal project at work it’s not up to me what happens to it but my guess is we’ll try to find a buyer for it at some point. That might take a while though, we’re very low on finished stock so we won’t be going to any events in the near future. I have no idea what kind of market there is for small, decorative pieces like this either.

Over the spring and summer I should be working on a couple of mosaics for around the house and garden but with these I’ll probably use regular vitreous tiles rather than the glazed wall tiles that we tend to use at work.

Belated Update

It’s been over a month since I last made a post on here, even then it was about an old project. This is largely down to being a bit busy. Also laziness.

I haven’t been entirely inactive however. I’ve been making a couple of little trinkets and trying out something new that I’ll share at some point in the near future. I’ve also been doing something at work that I’d like to share.

I don’t normally share the things I’ve done at work, I prefer to keep my work and home/internet life as separate as possible but just this once I’ve decided to let you all in on it.

I work for a charity that provides support to adults with learning difficulties who want to set up and run their own projects and social enterprise ideas. The particular project that I work on makes mosaics. Generally I’m working to support the project members to develop the project and assist with the production of our mosaics but sometimes I make something on my own as a way of encouraging the group to try out new things and just to bulk out our stock a little bit.

Typically we make functional items such as house signs, plant pots, trivets and coasters etc. But I’ve been trying my hand at something purely decorative.

 

It’s a sort of floral design with tesserae roughly cut from wall tiles. It’s a very simple design and I doubt we’ll find a buyer for it but I just wanted to do try something different.

I have a few ideas floating around for some mosaics to make at home as well, including one that my mum would like for the garden, look out for that in the spring/summer.