Turning garden slabs into mosaic paving stones.

This is what it was like before…. Here’s how it looks now…. There are more involved ways of creating mosaic garden pavers, involving the reverse method, casts and cement. But for a quick and easy way, just buy cheap garden slabs. Make your mosaic on mesh, sticking the pieces to the mesh using cement adhesive […] Read more...

Make your own champagne in 5 easy steps!

Now, I wasn’t planning on making champagne this weekend – I didn’t even know the possibility was available to me. Yet, I kid you not, I now have a huge vat of champagne brewing in my kitchen,  thanks to a serendipitous chat with a good friend at the school.gates on Friday afternoon. “Come to the […] Read more...

When art and community meet…pics and top tip!

You are never to young or old to make mosaics.  And here is the proof. These are pictures from one of the mosaic community projects I have been running in the last two months (yes, I’ve been a busy bee). Lots of women are gathering to make this mosaic celebrating our unity amidst our diversity. […] Read more...

Together

A new mosaic commission, made for a 40th wedding anniversary, has flown all the way to South Africa to its happy new owners. Together Made of iridescent stained glass, Van Gogh glass, nuggets, crystal beads, vitreous tiles and amethyst beads given to me by the person who commissioned the piece. I think its a bit […] Read more...

A new mosaic with a different kind of ‘grout’

The British Association for Modern Mosaic’s next exhibition is fast approaching with a delicious theme  – all things ‘Gothic’. Now…for years I have wanted to experiment with using wooden fretwork as a kind of ‘grout’ and this was my chance – fretwork with the Gothic quatrefoil all over… (the Gothic quatrefoil is an architectural symbol […] Read more...