{"id":2028,"date":"2012-05-09T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2012-05-09T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T08:12:47","slug":"community-mosaic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/community-mosaic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"More community mosaics in the making&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently facilitating another wonderful community mosaic project at St Nick&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Centre in Bedfordshire. What a lovely group of people to be working with &#8211; mostly mums and little ones (who spread cement on the pavers with great enthusiasm!).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2031 aligncenter\" title=\"hedge\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hedge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hedge.jpg 631w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hedge-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2033 aligncenter\" title=\"sun\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sun.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sun-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sun-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2030 aligncenter\" title=\"bfly\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bfly.jpg 427w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bfly-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These six large (60 x 60) pavers are being transformed into mini beasts to adorn the new community garden. We are 3 weeks in and 3 pavers are done (ready to grout), 3 nearly done&#8230;.\u00a0 and then we will begin on a giant WELCOME sign (there&#8217;s nothing like a WELCOME in beautiful mosaics,\u00a0 that will be there with its cheeriness, generation after generation).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2032 aligncenter\" title=\"snail\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snail.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snail-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2034 aligncenter\" title=\"lady\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lady.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lady-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How satisfying it is to take part in the transformation of public spaces with mosaic. As one mum said to her son last week, &#8220;We will be looking at this mosaic for years and saying &#8216;<em>We did that!<\/em>&#8216; &#8220;. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2029 aligncenter\" title=\"bee\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bee.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bee-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently facilitating another wonderful community mosaic project at St Nick&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Centre in Bedfordshire. What a lovely group of people to be working with &#8211; 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 [&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],"tags":[54,77,65,75,58,66,55,59,60],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-mosaics","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","tag-childrens-mosaic","tag-community-mosaics-2","tag-external-mosaics","tag-insects","tag-london","tag-making-process","tag-mosaic","tag-mosaic-art","tag-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","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=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}