Mosaic Star

I was over at Stacy Alexander-Listen to my Art Beat blog where she shows some beautiful mosaic hearts she is giving away for the One World One Heart blogger's giveaway. I told her I'd made one but it turns out I never took a picture of the hearts I made but I did take a picture of the star so I am showing it here.

I used seed beads and shells for my tiles. I feel like the beads look like sea glass. I edged it with shell beads. I turned it into a magnet for my fridge.

I've ordered some mosaic glass tiles and tile nippers so I can try some more mosaic projects. I want to make some polyclay tiles too and try doing some projects in the Mixed Media Mosaics, Techniques and projects book by Laurie Mika. In fact I have a cross stitch picture I designed and made that needs a frame and I thought I might use the techniques in this book to make a frame for it.

I made this cross stitch almost 2 years ago for my bathroom to go with my shower curtain. I made it square never worrying about a frame until it was completed. I never seem to remember I don't live in a large metropolitan area anymore and square frames to fit my picture or even pieces from which to make one just don't show up on WalMarts shelves. So it's been sitting and now I have a book that has inspired me to make my own frame. When I get it done, I'll post it but please don't hold your breath - you'll turn blue long before I get this project done!

One World, One Heart

Today is Valentine's Day and I had my husband draw two names from the "hat". The first winner is Jacq who gets first choice of which pin she wants and the second winner is Robin Krieger who will receive the remaining pin. I so wish I could have offered a prize to each and every one of you. I hope to revisit all the blogs and get to know everyone a bit better. I had a good time with this event; I hope you did too.

I decided it would be fun to join in with the One World, One Heart group. For my give-away, the winner will get to choose from these two pins. One is more refined and one a little wild. I made them both; I like them both and I hope you like them too.

Now, remember to leave a comment so I can put all the names in a hat for the drawing on Feb. 14th. Good luck to everyone and I hope you all enjoy seeing new blogs and getting to know the authors through them. Note: one of the rules is that you have a blog of your own that can be visited. I left this part out before and ended up causing some confusion.

Notice!!!! I am amending my giveaway. I am giving both pins away. I will draw two names. The first will get to pick the pin they want and the second gets the other pin. So two people will get to win on my blog. This will be more fun

since there will be more winners!