Hello! and welcome to the LowCarb Crafter. My name is Richard and I love all types of crafts but am especially interested in all forms of Mosaic. Most particularly, what I have come to term as Practical Mosaic, where you acquire a garage sale item like a plain, glass vase for 50 cents or old tissue box for a buck and turn it into something useful for the home, patio or garden. Something that you can be proud that you made. Everyone has tons of this stuff laying around the house and this site will be dedicated to showing you how fun and rewarding it can be to dig it out and instead of throwing it away – transform it into something fun and colorful for the garden or patio.

Mosaic fascinates the heck out of me! It's the only craft that would stick with me after years of trying all sorts of other crafty things like macrame, pottery, and a few others. I do not claim to be a full-fledged mosaic artist, my talent (if you can call it that) consists primarily of creating designs with tesserae that covers things, versus starting from scratch. I use the direct method but am becoming more bold with projects using transparent and opaque millefiori glass and smalti.

And so, it came to pass that I got a bit, shall we say, chunky? Sitting on a stool cracking tile or in front of the computer with a bowl of popcorn and voila! – suddenly my wife is pinching my love handles and saying how good a Santa I'll make come Christmas. That is really low – even for a wife. 

Bottom line is I am a full-time dieter! And the reason is because I am always falling off the wagon for that "just this once" cheat and that spawns an avalanche of further damage. As a result I have come to the conclusion that there are many ways to subdue, if not totally silence that little food devil on your shoulder. I believe it all comes down to a matter of choosing your battles, and making the better decisions more times than the wrong ones. Our goal here is only to offer the best resources we can find to help each individual fine there own way – the way that works!