Our welcome mosaic

We finally finished our first large mosaic project! The boys and I went on a small road trip one morning and our first stop was our local habitat for Humanity Restore. here we bought a selection of floor tiles in colours such as rose, blue, brown and cream. At $1.00 a piece for a 12" x 12" tile, they were a bargain!! Next we headed to Home Depot to buy our grout, some different coloured tiles and some tile nippers. When we got home we headed out to Mike's workshop where we broke our tiles up using a hammer on the cement floor. We found a piece of plywood, drew out our design, the got to work. On Day 1, we sat on the back porch under the awning and glued down all of our tile pieces, to add some interest we also added glass stones to the design.
Day 2, we grouted and then day 3 we polished. Here is our finished project. It measures about 30" x 15". Now we just have to figure out how to hang it on the wall in our front porch.

Mosaics with Aidan

As every Mom knows, once summer vacation starts, you need to have some "activities" planned to prevent the "Mom, I'm bored" from starting. So, when we were in Kingston last week, we visited Michael's for some supplies. Aidan and I decided that we would like to try our hand at making a mosaic, so we found kit to make mosaic coasters - here are the finished product - Aidan's is the left, mine is the right:

Now, we are hooked! We've decided that we are going to buy some tile nippers, some more grout and find a supply of broken tiles - we just have to decide what to make next! Perhaps a serving tray would be good, or a picture frame, or a wall plaque, or .... the possiblities are endless.