We have been enjoying making these little mosaic beauties to celebrate Easter (mummy has been using her two little ones as guinea pigs for the workshop that I am running at St. Paul’s Cathedral this week!). I feel very excited to be running a workshop for children in this amazing place (which is filled with [...] Read more...
Paper mosaic heart (or whatever takes your fancy!)
Paper mosaic making is a great activity for children and grown-up’s alike. I just did it with a group of 30 adults at Crafty Pint (crafts in a London pub, no less!) and it was great seeing how absorbed people got making this. Here they are in action… Whilst it seems pretty obvious how to [...] Read more...
Mosaic making galore…
Life (and blogging) has been interrupted somewhat by our kitchen-dining room (where we spend most our time) being out of use for two weeks, at one point with no floor! Despite it all, here’s been a lot of making going on – have a peek… Isabella’s butterfly slowly emerging… …and Toby’s Toucan! Some little mosaic [...] Read more...
Mosaic lights and candles…
It’s that time of year… Time for candles, light in the darkness, snuggling in, warm and cosy. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Evelyn Dunbar There [...] Read more...
Children’s bedroom mosaics
We were walking back from school a few weeks ago, discussing our plans for everyone in the house to move bedrooms – us back up into our lovely loft room, Isabella into our old room and Toby from his tiny box room to his big sister’s room. “Mummy, I want my bedroom to be like [...] Read more...
Mosaic Weather Tree Update!
We are nearly 5 months into our family mosaic project to make a mosaic weather tree depicting the weather for every day of 2012! There are four colours showing the predominant weather for that day – blue for rain, grey for cloud, yellow for sun and white glitter tile for snow. You can see our [...] Read more...
More community mosaics in the making…
I am currently facilitating another wonderful community mosaic project at St Nick’s Children’s Centre in Bedfordshire. What a lovely group of people to be working with – mostly mums and little ones (who spread cement on the pavers with great enthusiasm!). These six large (60 x 60) pavers are being transformed into mini beasts to [...] Read more...
The outdoor mosaic insect commission…finished!
At last, all done! The mosaic marathon was slightly interrupted this week by disappearance of Chloe the Cat. She is a breed that is knicknamed “Cat -dog” for the very reason that these animals are more like dogs – very social, following humans everywhere – but also prone to being over friendly and running into [...] Read more...
Mosaic weather tree for January
Our family mosaic project for the year is to make a mosaic tree – 12 branches and 365 leaves – each leaf depicting the weather for that day of the year. We have kept it simple – yellow for days that are mostly sunny; blue (a lovely gold veined one) for days that are mostly [...] Read more...
Published!
The second issue of the gorgeous new Stampington Press magazine, Create With Me, landed with a thud (its thick and luscious!) on my doormat yesterday with enclosed cover note… It’s always a magical moment seeing your work in the mass media (it is hitting the newstands in the USA any day now) and it was [...] Read more...
