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Monday, August 31, 2026

Butterfly Mosaic

Summer floated by gently, days fluttering into weeks as gatherings, events, and picnics flourished; now late evening sunsets are arriving earlier.

I'll remind myself of this summer with my latest mosaic project - a blue and white butterfly I finished in August.

Image 1: Mosaic butterfly Mosaic

I envisioned a butterfly "sculpture" that would float over my fern garden, (which is starting to fade as the summer heat dries it out.)

Blue White Mosaic butterfly by Jeanne Selep

Image 2: Mosaic butterfly Mosaic

I also tried out the butterfly over/in one of my hydrangea plants (below)...

Image 3: Blue and White Mosaic Butterfly

...but I like the butterfly flying over the ferns better.

Image 4: Butterfly Mosaic over my Ferns

Some of you may remember there used to be glass garden flowers in my fern garden. If you are wondering, I moved them to other parts of my yard, because the ferns looked so lush without them.

Image 5: Blue and White Mosaic Butterfly

Back to the mosaic: My up-cycled picassiette mosaic butterfly started with a metal wall butterfly decoration found at a rummage sale. I then covered the metal with mosaic pieces from blue and white vintage china. (Picassiette mosaics are mosaics made with pieces of china.)

The butterfly is about 16 inches (40cm) across and 11 inches (28cm) from top to bottom.

Image 6: Mosaic butterfly Mosaic

The butterfly itself is sturdy, but not too heavy. I attached the butterfly to a pole (with some difficulty!) I will see how the pole attachment holds up. If the squirrels start jumping on it from the bird feeder I expect there will be problems. The pole connection problem isn't really solved yet.

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I hope you have enjoyed
the long Summer days,
and I hope the rest of the year
is even better!

(Even if like me you are going to miss summer a little...)

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Travel, China and China hutches, and Mosaics.

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Here is a getting started with mosaics tutorial from Apple Street Cottage.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Mosaic Flowering Tree No. 3

I made a series of matching mosaic stepping stones featuring flowering trees. Today I'm sharing the third tree in the series, my pink blossoms tree. While a flowering tree's spring flowers last for a week or so, this tree's flowers stay in bloom year round.

Image 1: Flowering Tree #3 Mosaic close-up

In mosaic tree #3 I used pink floral mosaic pieces for the flowers. Pink floral china patterns are a favorite of mine, and I was able to reuse multiple tea saucers without matching teacups.

I tried to add dimension to this tree by using more dark florals in the bottom half of the tree (to mimic more shadowing on the lower part of the tree), but I think that effect turned out too subtle to be noticed.

Image 2: Flowering Tree #3 Mosaic Stepping Stone

This tree (#3) has brown branches showing, which is the improvement I tried in tree #2, but the brown branches don't stand out as much here as they do in the more pastel tree #2. Still, I like the result, and this is possibly my favorite in the series.

(Maybe it's like children, can you say you have a favorite?)

Each of the stepping stone's in the series are 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter. Below is tree #2 in the series, (post here).