1. cookie jar with crack in back

2. glue glass globs around after etching glass,
and tile around hole/crack so no sharp edges

3. led lights inside lit up

4. glass globs outside

Mosaic Stolen Lobster table

Mosaic Lobster Table

Ok my dear friend had this filthy old table on her front porch.

So, one day I stole it. I did this to it,then returned it.

 Man, was it hard to not laugh when she phoned

me up yelling about neighbourhood kids stealing her junk.

She moved it indoors after I gave it back to her. 

Mosaic Pay Phone

Mosaic Lazy Susan base with working land line pay phone.
There is a notepad and pen hanging off other side.
Good Luck finding a dime.

Mosaic BrBa Blanket Box Unfin

Do the Candy Coloured Blue Glass Globs mean anything I wonder

Mosaic front and top, top ungrouted

Top completed

Close up of tromp l'oeil plants " growing" up box

Inside of box....plenty of room to put something cool

Size L 36 x W 21 x H 27

Side 4 (the back) out of 5

Mosaic spool after

So I built a PT platform with a little ledge/frame and mortared beach rocks  from Lake Ontario on top, and on the bottom part of the spool as well.
 Larger flat rocks are placed strategically to hold cups/glasses when you are sitting at the table. It must weigh 200 lbs.

Bathroom DIY 3

Finished!
And there is a picture of Humphrey Bogart wearing flippers
 in the stained glass frame on the counter. Does he ever look goofy in them.

Mosaic Spool before

2 new projects. I obtained two wooden electrical spools. One is small, which I'm

turning into a chair, and the other much larger one will be the table. I know they look the samesize in the pictures, but the bottom one is the little spool.
I was driving by a building site and asked the supervisor if I could have one.
So, these are the before shots.

DIY

Finally dry fit all the plumbing and attached the mosaic counter top.

I even have an LED attachment to put on the end of the faucet that lights up red when hot water, and blue when cold. That's fun for me.

I'm waiting for a friend to come over so that they can shut the water off quickly if need be after everything is glued, screwed and tattooed together.

DIY

To cover up the hideosity of the ripped drywall from where the vanity was removed, I opted for pine wainscotting which installed very quickly and then painted white. Then new baseboards all around.

I got this pine board which I primed, then sprayed with a hammered metal copper finish to become the countertop for the glass sink. I also hammered some copper clips flat (they are actually used to suspend copper pipes from the ceiling) and banged them into frames in two of the cabinets. I found the copper clips in the basement, left behind.

Well, after setting it in place and drilling the holes for the drain and the faucet I wasn`t in love with the copper finish. It just looked meh.

So of course, bring out the broken glass and weldbond glue. I wanted a swirling water kinda thing...

This is before the grout.

And...this is after! I used non-sanded black grout, which only dries deep charcoal gray, not true black. The hole in the middle is for the sink and the other hole is for the faucet.

Mosaic

This was a commissioned piece for a graduating Ichthyologist.

Sting Ray, Fish I can't remember, Snapping Turtle & Hermit Crab. Each side had a different creature. It was one of the first pieces I used shards of a broken mirror in to emulate sparkling water. It was successful, but also dangerous. My DNA is all over that. To this day my fingertips have never been the same.

Mosaic

More mosaic boxes, shelves and boxes. In the middle picture is the little blue resin hand/cell phone holder used in the potato bin "handy" table.

Mosaic

It's not a very good picture but this is a tray actually, taken from above.

DIY

A work in progress. Ripped out filthy old piss-yellow pissed on creepy vinyl floor, installed new allure flooring that looks like cork. Ripped out vanity sink ,faucet. There was a baseboard heater BEHIND and UNDERNEATH the toilet, which is now gone, thanks to an Earth Angel known as "The Tool Man".

God bless him. So I went to fill the hole left by the baseboard wire and I found this yellowed newpaper balled up jammed in there to "fix" the hole. Oct 17, 1973. My goal is cover crappy walls behind cabinets with beadboard, tile marble backsplash atop of that, drill holes and install sink and beayootiful copper faucet.

Saturday: Cut & installed wainscotting to cover hideosity of ripped-out vanity-ness. Have primed, and will paint & caulk today. Found some hammered copper paint--will try that on countertop. if it doesn't work, I'll just have to mosaic something fun on it instead. Any suggestions? Not lobsters. I'm thinking bubbles or circles, like when you drop something in a pond.

Mosaic

Was driving home and came across this filthy old pickle jar/jug in the ditch. Cleaned it up/out, sandblasted a hole at the bottom, glued glass all over it, and made a lamp which sits in the hole. So when lamp is turned on it lights up from within. It is totally useless for tasking, as far as lamps go, but it looks quite soothing when it's on. I tried a picture with the light on and it's not working. I'll try again and post it if successful. It's sitting atop the barrie behemoth.

Mosaic

Three things in this pic: the little white box in upper left corner I chuck all my receipts into. It's a box covered in vintage wallpaper. The tea cart was on sale at Home Depot. I got the four old sewing machine drawers and attached them to a sliding drawer-spice jars kept in there. The old tea chest I got at a Kingston flea market.It was filthy. I took it all apart, washed it, stained it, ressembled it with black denim fabric and upholstery tacks and lined it as well.
The silverware chest had broken hinges and was bought for $4 at a thrift store. Mosaiic'd black glass tiles and "ivy/vine" all around outsides, fixed the hinges, cleaned the velvet lining, and now I use it to hold the dichroic glass jewellry & watches.

Mosaic

This white box was built to hold firewood by my grandfather for a farm in Sakachewan in the 40's. I got some slate tiles, river rock and beijing limestone slabs and glued it all around the box. Box is also lined with cedar. It now weighs at least 100 lbs. I didn't change the tiny little casters on it yet. The kitten seems to not mind it. He looks quite evil in pictures but is a sweet kitty in real life. I gave my back a workout moving this around to glue and then grout on all sides.

Mosaic

I glue all around the edges of mirrors, effectively framing them. They're quite dangerous to dust by hand, so using the attachment of a vacuum works best. The middle picture is quite 3-D although not that noticeable in pic. I bought a beautiful blue drinking glass for 10 cents at a yard sale and smashed it.