{"id":1928,"date":"2012-03-26T22:42:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2012-03-26T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:42:21","slug":"community-mosaic-paver-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/community-mosaic-paver-project\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One big mosaic project draws to a close just as another begins…with some overlap that makes the task of managing motherhood, art and business a little<\/em> tricky.<\/p>\n

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In reality, I get\u00a0 done all that I need to (with my perfectionist streak at work!)\u00a0 but often at the cost of balance<\/em> to my own life. Exercise and the like goes by the wayside but I re-assure myself that all the digging I have been doing at our allotment is more<\/em> than sufficient (8 full hours digging with my heavy duty, but very effective azada<\/a> this weekend, to unearth the brambles that have been left to roam for 15 years).<\/p>\n

Today, myself and about 8 mums from the school, organised by the lovely Hazel, painted the long outdoor wall that is to become home to the giant mosaic insects I have made.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow, my mosaic beauties<\/a> will be put in place!\u00a0 I can’t wait to see them in their full glory, with the sun shining on them.<\/p>\n

As soon as I got back from the painting today, I dived straight into the next big project, preparing for a community mosaic initiative at a Children’s Centre. Working with a group of young mums, we will be creating six large (60cm x 60cm) mosaic insect paving stones and a giant ‘WELCOME” sign for the estate’s\u00a0 new community garden. Some old favourite’s\u00a0 (insects are definitely the order of the day!) as well as some new designs – I am very much looking forward to seeing the group unleash mosaic loveliness for their neighbourhood!<\/p>\n

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I still have a lot of prep to do, but as I sit nipping tiles, with the cat curling round my legs, I marvel at the fact that every time I am in the midst of preparing a community mosaic project, the sun shines – warmly -so that I can sit in the garden and work. I feel a very lucky, blessed woman.<\/p>\n

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One big mosaic project draws to a close just as another begins…with some overlap that makes the task of managing motherhood, art and business a little tricky. In reality, I get\u00a0 done all that I need to (with my perfectionist streak at work!)\u00a0 but often at the cost of balance to my own life. Exercise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,18,22],"tags":[77,65,75,58,55,59,60],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-mosaics","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics","tag-community-mosaics-2","tag-external-mosaics","tag-insects","tag-london","tag-mosaic","tag-mosaic-art","tag-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}