Archive for October, 2008

Test Post For The Crafter's Gallery

Mosaic Tissue Box With Gold Smalti

First Project In The Crafter's Gallery

Since we just started this showcase of crafts I am forced to show my own work just to get us going. Much as I hesitate to show some of my earlier works (mistakes) I am doing it strictly in the interests of furthering my craft. And if you believe that I have some stocks for you to buy - ouch, that was a low blow!

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Mosaic For The Colorful Crafter

Crafting with Mexican Hand-Painted TileTo Craft A Pattern Or Not

This little piece of work, strips of Mexican tile laid on a plywood, wonderboard base, is almost 4 feet long, 2 feet high was to be the header for a fantastic new craft website. But instead it became an image for a single post. Ah, well, you have to go with the flow sometimes and maybe someday MexicanMosaic.com will have it's own forum. For now we are very happy with this blog.

Colors That Crafters Love

You can blow the image up to see the colors by hovering your mouse over the image and clicking it. You will see the wild colors that you can find in the patterns of 4" Mexican tile, particularly the hand-painted variety. I used a wet saw to cut the pieces (keeping them uniform in size while varying the lengths) for the border and the flower patterns then repeated what I call a random pattern from top to bottom and from side to side. The field of off-white tile in the center was done in a random pattern to balance the repeating strips. I grouted it with a Home Depot sanded grout color called red clay. 

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