Mosaic Glass-on-glass Dragonfly Christmas 2014

20"x26" including frame

New Garden Stones Finished

Cherub Dragonfly

7.5" x 5.5"

delicate thin broken Japanese tea set on peach flagstone 

(Sold)

Red Dragonfly

13" x 7.5"

iridescent red tile and black jet beads

Red Flower

7" x 6"

iridescent red tile on broken marble

Thunderbird Dragonfly

9" x 8"

pique assiette on broken natural stone tile

White and Gold Cross

8.5 x 8.5

Heavy, about 5 lbs., 1 3/4" thick at base, white and 23K gold pique assiette 

with a costume jewelry center on rough natural field stone; will stand alone. 

(Sold) 

These are grouted with a concrete-based mortar and sealed with Dupont outdoor stone sealer to make them durable for flower beds.  

Just finished a batch of Garden Stones.

and just sold my Round Space Mosaic:  

Grouting marathon this morning.  In two hours, I grouted the dragonfly panel, a complicated watering can, two picture frames, a large flower pot, and the roof of a new bird house.  Whew.  It goes fast when 1) you grout it all the same color, and 2) you grout outside.  The weather is beautiful here today, and I set up on the back porch and used water from the garden hose.

The bird house will have a beautiful pale pink-mauve porcelain rose attached to serve as a perch (and so the bottom hole you now see in the photo will be covered).  I will do it this way because I don't want to take a chance on damaging it when I grout the body of the bird house.  After grouting, I will glue the rose, wait a day, and then mix up a little grout and blend around the base of it.