{"id":1499,"date":"2011-11-17T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:18:49","slug":"flying-mosaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/flying-mosaics\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying mosaics..!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest mosaic commission is finished and flying to their new owners. I have loved working with these colours, combining vitreous goldlink tiles, glitter mosaic tiles, coloured mirror, iridescent nuggets.\u00a0 I get a kick out of combining mosaic materials in just the right way&#8230;and was sad to see them go.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1500\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1500 \" title=\"baby brown\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baby-brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Green Dragonfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1501\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1501 \" title=\"baby d 2\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baby-d-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baby-d-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baby-d-2-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Brown Dragonfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am typing this with black grout under my nails as have been finishing one <em><strong>gigantic<\/strong><\/em> ladybird made by the lovely children and parents at the Wandsworth Early Years Centre. Here&#8217;s a sneak peak (do excuse him as he hasn&#8217;t been polished up yet &#8211; and the gaps you see are where we are going to screw him into the wall!)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1502\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1502 \" title=\"ladybird 1\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ladybird-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ladybird-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ladybird-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant Ladybird made by children (before final scrub!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next week, grouting more flying mosaics&#8230;the dragonfly, butterfly, bumblebee&#8230;plus a gentle giant of a snail!<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danabarbieri.com\/2011\/11\/art-biz-mama-concetta-perot-of-glittering-shards\/\" target=\"_blank\">a little read<\/a> for the weekend &#8211; an interview I did on being an artist, business woman and mum.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest mosaic commission is finished and flying to their new owners. I have loved working with these colours, combining vitreous goldlink tiles, glitter mosaic tiles, coloured mirror, iridescent nuggets.\u00a0 I get a kick out of combining mosaic materials in just the right way&#8230;and was sad to see them go. &nbsp; I am typing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,23,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-mosaics","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}