Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Mosaic Easter Egg

Longer days, later sunsets, and warmer temperatures whisper to me that spring and Easter will soon be here, even though snow and ice cover my yard.  These signals of spring prompted me to share an Easter Egg Mosaic wall hanging I made a couple of years ago.  


Mosaic Egg by Jeanne Selep
Image 1: Mosaic Egg, 15in high by 10in wide.

This project gave me the excuse to unapologetically use a favorite color combination... pinks and greens, and whites and ivory.  The decorated egg design allowed me to use a variety of vintage floral china pieces to form quick stripes.  


Mosaic
Image 2: Mosaic

I used an egg shaped wood "welcome spring" sign purchased at a resale shop for the backing of the mosaic.  Then I selected eight or nine different floral plates and made a striped the Easter egg.  Simple and easy. 


Mosaic detail
Image 3: Mosaic detail

A "side goal" was to use a plate that had 12 two-toned pink roses framed by pastel greenery on the rim.  This project allowed me to repurpose a damaged plate, as well as celebrate other lovely floral borders.


3d Mosaic Egg
Image 4: 3D Mosaic Egg

A much earlier project, my 3D Mosaic egg, was inspired by an Easter Egg display in New York City (post here).  This 3D project has lots of flaws.  I include it here because it was a beginner attempt that I actually finished, and learned a lot from. 


3d Mosaic Egg
Image 5: 3D Mosaic Egg

The 3D egg above is large - 11 inches (28cm) from top to bottom, about 8 inches (20 cm) wide, which makes it difficult for me to work into a spring vignette.  

The flat egg below has dimensions of 15in (38 cm) top to bottom and is 10in (25 cm) wide.  

[ BTW, I'm showing some of these pieces on a vintage tablecloth. ]


3d Mosaic Egg
Image 6: 3D Mosaic Egg


Thank you for visiting!  Apparently, I tipped into the milestone of having 1,000,000 views on my blog (over 18 years, but still!)  I don't know how accurate that number is, and I think the counter started on 2011 but nevertheless it's a fun number for me to see!  

I made the popular posts column (which you can only see on a PC, not a phone) show the all-time most popular posts.  Maybe I should make a post on just the top posts?

In either case...


Have a fantastic Easter
and enjoy your spring!
[If you are in the Southern Hemisphere,
Enjoy the start of Autumn...]


 

Please leave a comment if you have time.  

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I have three large categories of posts: 
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Monday, December 8, 2025

Collage Christmas Hutch

My "Collage Christmas Hutch" features an eclectic arrangement of some of my favorite Christmas china.  Collecting china at estate sales and resale venues, and displaying the collected pieces makes me smile remembering the thrill of the find and hopes for finding future treasures.  


Selep Christmas china cabinet hutch
Image 1: Christmas China Hutch

There is no overall china pattern featured in this hutch.  Together the china forms a collage of different styles themed "Christmas".  So perhaps the first set I show you should be a design that is actually a collage.  


Joyeus Noel plate 222 Fifth PTS International
Image 2: Joyeux Noel plates

And what a collage on the face of these plates!  The Eiffel tower catches your eye, with botanical pine cones and mistletoe in gold; snowflakes and calligraphic swirls, and golden Joyeux Noel script and a Paris circle stamp.


Paris Gold Joyeus Noel Christmas Plate 222 Fifth
Image 3: Paris collage plate, 8.5 inch diameter

Love at first sight... 


[ 222 Fifth, PTS International, made these plates, pattern name Joyeux Noel, around 2012 to 2018.  I have two red desert plates (8.5 inch diameter) and two white dinner plates (11 inch diameter). ]


Tord Boonjte Christmas plate
Image 4: Tord Boonjte Dinner plate

The Danish artist Tord Boonjte designed the whimsical plate above.  I admired Tord's art long before I found these four plates at resale prices.  This design is a collage of a different sort.
Tord said this about design:

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"Modernism does not mean minimalism,
contemporary does not forsake tradition,
and technology does not mean abandon people and senses."


                                                -  Tord Boontje
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The traditional silhouettes of snowflakes and flowers, animals and stars delights the eyes.  A very different collage than the Joyeus Noel plates, this contemporary style with traditional elements is not minimalistic, makes you smile, and yet is calming to the senses.


Tord Boonjte Christmas plate detail
Image 5: Tord Boonjte plate detail

[ Tord Boonjte designed the "Christmas Day Studio Tord Boonjte" plates above for the Target department stores in 2006. ]

 

I think of my hutch arrangements as a collage created using porcelain!  


Selep Christmas Hutch Welsh Dresser
Image 6: Winter Hutch Detail

 

Lenox's "Wintersong" Pattern, below, is possibly my favorite Holiday place setting that I own.  I was lucky to find two place settings at an estate sale.  


Lenox Wintersong Plate
Image 7: Lenox Wintersong Plate

The plates feature a contemporary botanical and bird painting style.  The red rimmed plate is large, though, 11.5 inches across and can only fits on the top shelf of my Welsh Dresser


Lenox
Image 8: Lenox

Another Lenox plate from 1995 is "Winter greeting", above.  I have just one dinner plate of this pattern.


Selep Christmas Welsh Dresser Hutch China Cabinet
Image 9: My Christmas Welsh Dresser Arrangement

Setting up the Hutch can go fairly quickly.  I can only hope that setting up and decorating the Christmas tree will go as fast.  



Enjoy the Christmas Holiday Season!



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