Love is My Fave

Ta da! I's my first piece I created on my own start to finish. Yes, I know nothing to write home about but I cut the glass, cut the strips into pieces, laid them out, grouted and cleaned it up so that's a success in my eyes. I have charcoal grout that I felt was too dark so I mixed it with some of the white grout to create a light grey. I felt it looked better against the purple and green tile. I put a little votive candle inside so you can see how clear the purple is. I'm thinking I want to sand it down and maybe seal it, especially if it's used as a vase with water.

My first mosaic tile vase (or candle holder) woohoo! Thanks to Robin and Bonnie for their instructions.

This is vase number two. I'm using off white solid tiles on opposite sides and turquoise-ish solid tiles on the other opposite sides with white grout. I'm not a big fan of it, nothing too special but sometimes those things turn out the best so we'll see. I think it will make a decent vase.

This is my third vase I'm working on. It's going to have one letter on each side and will spell out Love and I'll be using white grout. I'm going to start experimenting with words and other shapes. My next pieces will be smaller than these vases. I don't have enough creativity yet for such large pieces!

Dollar Store Score

I knew the dollar store would be a good idea! I scored 3 flat sided vases for less than $10! (woot woot) Below is a picture of some of my glass I bought the color is funky because it was in my dining room which is dark but has a chandelier so hence the weird tone and reflection. Home Depot was a bust when it came to looking for pliers and wheeled nippers so I'm going to either hit up amazon, ebay or another glass store. SIGH.


If you can't tell the one with the straight up reflection is solid black glass, the next is solid yellow then a marble green.

It's Okay, It's a Gift

The Glass Crew took a ride out to Rainbow Stained Glass in Bristol, PA. I've never been to a glass store but they had a huge selection and what seemed to be reasonable prices. I bought several sheets of colored glass for under $20 and by first glass cutter! Next stop will be to Home Depot to get the other tools I need to cut glass, like nippers and something else but the name escapes me. Oh yeah and different colored grout.


Back to Robin's and we grouted our projects we started two weeks ago. Robin and Bonnie are working on about a thousand different projects and Erin and I continued with our "beginner" trivets. Grouting turned out to be fun. Robin prefers wearing the swine flue gloves but I definitely thought barehanded was better.

Below, is my trivet mid-grout. I think it would have looked really sharp if I had some charcoal colored grout but I guess that's all part of the learning process. I'll post a pic of H trivet when it's all cleaned up. Next project will be a mirror! And I need to throw in a CONGRATS to Bonnie for selling a vase on Etsy :)

Sometimes Simple is Good

I decided to get my Aruba 2006 page out of the way and just looking at my new "south beach" color card stock I decided I would make the page a beach scene and it was so easy! I really needed a colorful background since the pics are b/w (I ran out of color ink mid printing 2006 and was too lazy to reprint them heehee.) Also, I stole my sister-in-law's lobster she stamped for an envelope once...hope she doesn't mind.

Sale notice: AC Moore has the brand Top Load scrapbook albums 2 for $8!I bought some plain ones because it's really about the pages inside right?? :) Don't forget you can print the coupons from the website.

Michaels Scrapbook Sale (and this week's projects)

Although Michaels (the arts and crafts store) annoyed me today, I'll make sure everyone knows scrapbooks are on sale this week. The annoyance came from the fact that they had a 50% coupon this week and coincidentally the scrapbooks were on sale 25%. Soooo of course I can't use the 50% on them. This was obviously on purpose and its irritating! But anyway, just an FYI the scrapbooks are on sale this week. The Michaels (in Princeton at least) had a giant selection of scrapbook paper pads on sale pretty cheap, so this week is a good time to pick some up.

Projects this week: Relining the kitchen drawers and shelves with new paper and cleaning up the guest room. The husband was good enough to rip out the carpet today and then its time to redecorate!