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.
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| 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.)
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| Image 2: Mosaic butterfly Mosaic |
I also tried out the butterfly over/in one of my hydrangea plants (below)...
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| Image 3: Blue and White Mosaic Butterfly |
...but I like the butterfly flying over the ferns better.
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| 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.
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| 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.)
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| 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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| Image 6: Mosaic butterfly Mosaic |
The butterfly is about 16 inches (40cm) across and 11 inches (28cm) from top to bottom.
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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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I have three large categories of posts:
Travel, China and China hutches, and Mosaics.
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Here is a getting started with mosaics tutorial from Apple Street Cottage.
