I finally finished the chair!!! As I speak the first coat of stain (black) is drying thanks to my hubby Jerry!! (Godbless husbands!!!) I can proudly say I did not loose a single bb in the grouting of this chair! That alone is a feat in itself!!! It is made with beads,mirror tile,tile and bb's.

Here is the last box that also was included in the gift exchange for work. I tried to make each different based on each gals personality. The chair is a work in progress. I just started it yesturday and got the chair quite awhile ago from my Mom in law who had gotten it either from her Mom or her Mother in law. Unfortunatley I cant remember now which one!!! Im exited about the colors of this chair and hope it turns out well.

These are some boxes that I made for gifts for the gals I work with. I actually have one more but I will have to load it to the next post as it wont let me on this one.

Well its finally done!!! Here is a picture of my finished bench. It turned out really nice. It was a lot to grout and lucky for me Jerry likes to grout. He did 75% of the grouting while I was doing clean up on the grout to make it go faster. My Mom should be gettin this in about a day or two.

I haven't added to my blog for quite a while. I have been working on a bench for my Mom, and with it being summer I haven't gotten as much time to work on it. I'm hoping to finish it within the next few weeks. It is not grouted yet although it looks like it is, I affixed it to the bench with thin set so your seeing the color of the thin set coming through. The thinset also washesd out the color of some of the floweres. They are a pale pink. When I grout with grey it will become more obvious.

Ok...here is a little bit of what I've been doing....I am putting the hummingbird when finished on a cement bench that my mom has and the little spikey ball is just weird..so I liked it. I saw a picture of something like this that the gal had used roofing nails and a bowling ball, I figured that was just a little to hazardous to my health so I used a small (a little bigger than a quarter) styrofoam ball and little tack nails...

Here is my frying pan that I got a few months ago in the frying pan exchange...I should have posted this picture long ago but got lazy and didn't. As you can see it is a Veno theme, the gal and fellow mosaic/stained glass artist is from Colorado and had gotten my name in the exchange forum. I was so excited when I received this pan. Her work is always beautiful which I'm sure you can tell by the photo.

The second photo is a my first ever copper-foil project. The butterfly. It turned out pretty good I thought but I found out soldering copper -foil is NOT easy at all. It will take a LOT more practice. The garden trowel/spade with the flower on it next to the butterfly is also a present from Hazie in Colorado. Although we have never met in person, we have become fast friends on the gardenweb exchange and by email. If I ever get to go see Niki, Tim, and Mitchell I will definitely make a side trip to meet her.

Well here is some stuff I been doing. I did an old boat oar that we had and made a small mosaic on it, I really liked the grain of the wood how it had aged so I didn't cover the whole oar. I started it about 1 year and a half ago and didn't like what I had on it so I got my wonderful husband Jerry to take it off with a screw driver and hammer...talk about flying pieces everywhere...sheesh..ok my husband has informed me it is NOT an oar it is a CANOE PADDLE (whatever!!!)

The bowl is my bowl that I have worked on for a little under two months. It was done for a bowl exchange. I don't know who is sending me a bowl but my bowl went to Menomonee (something like that) falls Wisconsin. It arrived today in fact. I was very surprised because that was a long way to go in such a short time!!! I mailed it Monday, priority mail. I was hoping it would get there next week!!! Oh well, I think she liked it though...
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