{"id":1778,"date":"2012-01-30T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:13:49","slug":"mosaic-weather-tree-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-weather-tree-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic weather tree for January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family mosaic project for the year is to make a mosaic tree &#8211; 12 branches and 365 leaves &#8211; each leaf depicting the weather for that day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>We have kept it simple &#8211; yellow for days that are mostly sunny; blue (a lovely gold veined one) for days that are mostly rainy; grey (irridescent) for cloudy days; silver glitter tiles for snowy frosty days (we are expecting a few of those in the next week).\u00a0 I will start working on the background soon (and hopefully finish the branches too).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how January looked!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"weathertreejan\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/weathertreejan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1780 aligncenter\" title=\"weathertreejan2\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/weathertreejan2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/weathertreejan2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/weathertreejan2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not too rainy for London! I have been spending the cloudy and sunny days being a very busy bee this month. On top of doing proposals and tax returns (done, yipee!), I have been working on a new commission for a local school making 6 large mosaic insects for the playground. The bases are now cut out and <em>very<\/em> nearly ready to mosaic on (wedi board on external ply for re-enforcement, edges and back with 3 layers of outdoor varnish).\u00a0 As usual, scaling up and drawing (I do this freehand) takes longer than I imagine. On top of waiting for each layer of varnish to dry, I am itching to start sticking tiles but reminding myself that good preparation is paramount! Pics to come.<\/p>\n<p>I have also started a new piece for an exhibition in the summer &#8211; I am loving it. Here&#8217;s a sneak peek and I will do a proper work-in-progress post later this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1781 aligncenter\" title=\"bird\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family mosaic project for the year is to make a mosaic tree &#8211; 12 branches and 365 leaves &#8211; each leaf depicting the weather for that day of the year. We have kept it simple &#8211; yellow for days that are mostly sunny; blue (a lovely gold veined one) for days that are mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}