Jeanne Selep's Selep Imaging Blog: January 2020

I love the colors of Valentines day, where one can joyfully decorate with both pink and red. During February I can add accents of these colors that don't typically exist in my decorating scheme.

Valentine Love Vignette

Today I want to share this small Valentine Love vignette consisting of a shelf with vintage glass and a Love sign.

Red Button Repurposed Love Sign

I created the Button Love sign from a rummage sale find. The sign had some phrase on the border (under the buttons), about grandparents, I think.

Red Button Repurposed Love Sign

The sentiment didn't apply to me, but covered with buttons, the sign becomes a colorful multi-seasonal, multi-use sign. I put my button Love sign out for both Christmas and Valentines Day.

Another thing I

is Glass.

Vintage Glass in Valentine Colors

I arranged some small pink, cranberry, red and white glass from my growing collection with some candlesticks. (I can't resist vintage glassware when I see it at a great price.)

Spread the

Love on

Valentines Day!

OK, the cutesy playing with letters is silly,

but it's like many valentines.

Silly yet Fun.

I hope you enjoy Valentine's Day,

this is my Valentine to you.

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Picassiette Mosaic Birds by Jeanne Selep

Teal Picassiette Mosaic birds

I wanted to share this pair of mosaic birds I created using vintage china from various resale venues. Mosaics created from broken china is called picassiette (also pique assiette), and it's my favorite kind of mosaic. It's a great way to use chipped, damaged or broken china.

Left facing Mosaic Bird

The single teal plate that became the tail feathers inspired the color palette. I cut the bird shapes out of 1/4 inch thick wood on a jigsaw, glued down the china pieces with clear silicon, and finished the birds by grouting between the china.

Pique assiette Mosaic Bird by Jeanne Selep

Right facing Mosaic Bird

I don't know which of the birds is the girl and which one is the boy, but these two are definitely love birds, and I am hoping to figure out a baby bird shape so they can have babies someday.

Mosaic birds posing for a close up

Here the two are having their close up.

The birds are actually quite small, about 3 inches high by 5 inches tip of the beak to tip of the tail.

Mosaic birds on Display

At the moment I display them on a window ledge near a small reproduction Tiffany Window that came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the real much larger window hangs. The large Tiffany window (the real one) is currently my favorite stained glass window in the world, in case anyone has a spare one...
(btw, notice the authentic shabby chic (?) of the window and window handle...)

Name the birds! Leave suggestions in the comments

I haven't named the birds yet, so if anyone has suggestions, please leave your ideas in the comments.

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