Here is Niki's ball so far...It has been to hot for me to do much work on it lately, and my schedule wasn't allowing it. After work on saturday I'm hoping to get to start working on it again. It's about 50% done.

I am really pleased with NIki's color suggestions. I didn't even think I liked these colors....they are very subtle and I'm gonna have a hard time giving it to the intended person (Niki)....I sure hope it doesn't get lost in route!!!

I started Nik's bowling ball mosaic today. Of course it doesn't look to great right now. I have placed a few arrows with the colors next to them. If you click on the picture it will come up a bigger size. The picture I took DOES NOT do the colors justice. They are a very pretty color combination and the flowers are actually made out of four different colors of purple.....You can see a little of my pencil drawing on the ball.

Doing this half is easy...its trying to do the oppisite side that might be a challange..lucky for me you can only look at one side at a time, so if I have it off center a bit hopefully know one will notice.... This is one of the bowling balls that was Nanas, it actually had the name "Helen" on it.

Here is a mosaic butterfly on a rock. (duh!!!) I have found this is a very quick and easy way of making a mosaic in a very short time when I need a little mosaic fix. (yes it is a sickness..look it up!) A couple of weeks ago I needed a break from the fawn so I decided to try to do this. The antennae is wire that I have superglued after bending. I hope they hold up.

Every time I would take grass clippings out behind the garage in the wheelbarrow I would trip on this rock and I liked the colors and shape of the rock. If you look closely you can even see scuff marks on the rock from where I kept hitting it. So here it is!! I know I will be doing a lot more of these, I want to do one with a dragonfly on it. When we finally get to have our new deck I will be putting it on there.

Hey...look its actually a mosaic....not somehting else....I do have to admit I made this awhile ago...but did not get to finish (the other side!!!!!) it until recently. I grouted it on the 4th (before we went to our cookout at my sis's) and here it is...I still have another side to grout but that will have to wait until this weekend. For those of you that don't remember it last time. This was given to me to do by Linda ( my Mom-in-law) and it came from Nana's house.. I have about 4 or more (stressing the or more!!!) projects started so now I must actually finish them!!! The weather has cooled down and the rains back, but thats ok...I don't mind a few days of rain to wash away the dust.