Peggy's Table

 Wow!  It has been a really busy summer, and I have not done much blogging, but that doesn't mean that I have just been sitting around doing nothing!  We have had a visits from son #3 the Marine, and a visit from Son #2 the Submariner, then a visit to see my son # 3 with son # 2 at his Marine Base in North Carolina, sitting with grand baby #1,  he is from Son #1, and a wedding for Step-daughter #!, so I think we are done for a while, we will see......

Peggy's Table was a commissioned project I worked on in the mean time of all the above.  Peggy is a dear friend and a long time customer, and I appreciate her faith in me to finish this project, with only the guidance of certain colors and she wanted something "Really Different". I think she got it!  She had just gotten a new sectional sofa in this beautiful Aqua color, so we matched the base color with the sofa and her paint color and went from there.  She gave me one of her dishes to integrate the other colors she wanted into the table.

This  was my inspiration:

Paint Color

and This

Her Dishes

Here is  the first coat of paint.  I think I  painted 3 coats of paint on each swirl and paisley, Whew!

On top of the acrylic paints I mixed some of my favorite stuff to use.  Premier Pigments, Pearl Ex Powders with some clear acrylic.  For the Dark Teal color I used Duo Blue-Green, the Light Blue Color I used True Blue,  lime green I used Spring Green,  the Coral Color, I used  Pumpkin Orange, the dark purple I used Misty Lavender, and the yellow, I used Bright Yellow.

My stash of Pearl Ex Pigments from Premier Pigments

This is after the Pearl Ex was applied.

After Pearl Ex was applied

Another picture after Pearl Ex was applied

The next step is to apply the glass pieces.  I used a clear glass, and nipped them in to these very small pieces.  I try to follow the pattern of the design, so that when I apply the grout, the entire design shows through and is not covered up by the grout lines.

Per Peggy's Request,  I added some of her jewels.  Some times while laying all these little pieces of glass, I think, "Kathy, are you CRAZY?", but I know it is worth it when it is all finished!

Getting ready for the grout.  I tape off the edges so that I don't get grout where I don't want it.  I can tend to be a little messy with this step!

After it is  grouted, I  applied several coats of  Clear Acrylic mixed with Pearl Ex Pigments  Interference Red to give it a nice shimmer!

Here is the finished product in her house.  One of Peggy's  Bengal Cats,  Daisy,  was checking out the new interesting object in the room, making sure it smells O.K.!

Daisy Posing for a picture!

FINISHED!

What do you think?

She has asked me to make another table for in front of the new sofa. I think she is going to use the swirly/paisley one in her foyer.  The plan is for it to be the same base color and the top will be a mosaic of of a Peacock Feather!  Oh, Boy, wish me luck!

A special thank you to a special lady!  Thanks for the work and Thanks for letting to be creative!  

Kathy

For Sale at Sunburst Stained Glass in Newburg, IN

Paint and Glass Mosaic Mirror

These Mirrors are currently for sale at Sunburst Stained Glass in Old Town, 20 W. Jennings Street,  Newburgh, IN. www.sunburststainedglass.com  If you have never been to this shop, you need to go see what they can do.  This group of talented stained glass artists are amazing!  They did all the restoration work on the stained glass windows at the French Lick Hotel and the West Baden Hotels is French Lick, IN.  They also designed and made the most beautiful piece of glass artwork I have ever seen. It is  in the New, Newburgh Library.  It is truly a work of art! They have also restored many stained glass windows of the area churches.  I am honored to be able to display and sell my Glass Jewelry, and my Copper and  Glass Mosaic Mirrors in their shop.  I have been selling my Jewelry there now for several years, but this is the first time I have taken any of my mirrors.  I also took the Painted and glass mosaic Table that I posted about in November.

 UPDATE TO POST:  NEW MIRRORS AT SUNBURST STAINED GLASS, NEWBURGH, IN

Copper and Painted Mirror Frame - For Sale

Painted Copper Mirror - For Sale

Copper Patina Mirror - For Sale

Copper and Painted Mirror - For Sale

Only one of these are there for sale. SOLD

                       

Size is approximately 2' x 2' .  SOLD

Table top of Mosaic Table - it is attached to a wrought iron base

Thanks for looking!  Kathy

Everything AND the bathroom Sink!

It has been awhile since I posted.  It has been a busy week or two.  I had a wonderful Christmas, and I am looking forward to this weekend.  My son is coming in from Hawaii to to visit for about a week.  He is a submariner in the Navy, and I am really looking forward to his visit. It has been a YEAR since I have wrapped my arms around that boy! But, that means I am going to be busy for another week, so I thought I better get this post off. I took some pictures of a mosaic counter top that I did a while back. My salon had the ugliest bathroom counter in Southern Indiana, I am sure.   As always, the budget is tight, so I thought I would make one.  The glass I used is called Van Gough Glass.  It comes in a variety of colors. This particular glass was copper, green, and brown.  The back of the glass is black so it is opaque and is mostly used for mosaics, but perhaps you could use it in stained glass projects too.  An epoxy product was poured over the top of it so that it would be smooth. My biggest fan did all the plumbing, that is just not my bag. He did an excellent job with the placement of the faucet and drain holes, which, by the way, were drilled in the board before the mosaic was laid.  The water hit the bowl perfectly!

Close up of Mosaic (pretty random placement)

 

Hope you like it, Thanks for Looking!! Happy New Year!  It's gonna' be a good one, I can just tell!!

Thanks For Looking,  Kathy

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Mike's Bar and the Painted Lady

It has been another busy day. I finishing up some projects I have been working on for Christmas Presents for family and friends, so I am going to share some photos of MIKE'S BAR.  This is a project "My Biggest Fan" and I worked on a few years ago.  We also had some help from my youngest son Ethan when he was in his last year of high school. Ethan helped cut and place the glass pieces and grout the design. I believe most, if not all of the other family members donated items to this project, including, beer tops, wedding rings (bad decisions), VW memorabilia, jewelry, Swedish Kronar,  wine corks, wine bottles, and let us not forget the coon prick that graces the inside of  the insert on the right side of the bar.  The left insert is  a design of ammunition and various shells, and a dedication to my two sons that are in the service, one a United States Marine and the other a Submariner in the U.S. Navy.  The main Structure of the Bar was built by "My Biggest Fan" using mostly recycled material.  The Tongue and groove paneling and the foot rail came out of the burnt out building that used to house the Lake Rudolph Camp Ground Office.  The Bar Rail was from some unused milled work from a friends of ours.  The Benches were made from the sides of an old water bed, (see there was a use for those things).  The new additions this summer were the fancily painted porch posts on each end of the bar, and the "flying lady" masterfully positioned by "my biggest fan", and painted by ME!  I have 3 or 4 more of those old mannequins, she may have some company soon!  There was one more recent addition to the bar area, but I did not get a picture of it before I BROKE my camera, is what "my biggest fan" likes to call his Tequila Swing.  I will just let you imagine what that is until I get a picture of it with my new camera, I am going to have to shop for tomorrow.  :) The Camera accident:  I set the camera, that was attached to the a tripod, away from the bar. I was getting ready to take a picture of "my biggest fan", and one of the legs of the tripod wasn't pulled out as far as the other legs, when I let go,  wham!  The tripod fell over with the camera lens facing the concrete.  So now the lens is bent in the "out" position, and the camera will not turn off or on properly.  The good news is that I was able to download the pictures I had just taken. I swear I had not sampled anything from the bar before this happened!  So here it is: MIKE'S BAR

 

Can anyone figure out what the things on the ends of the benches are?  For those of you that have been to Mike's Bar don't tweet it.

 

Glass Mosaic Bar Top

The glass was grouted, then liquid acrylic was poured over the entire bar

 

Hmmm?

 

 

Porch Post - I think we used every left over can of spray paint we had, It took us a whole Sunday Afternoon

to paint this, but it was worth it don't you think?

The "Flying  Lady"~ I like to think of her as "the colorful twists and turns of a woman". She will be joined soon by 3 or 4 more ladies that need to have some clothes (or paint) on before they will show themselves off! 

There has been a lot of fun had by our family and friends in this bar, so the project was well worth the time and effort.

Pictures of the Tequila Swing to be added later and I guess the identity of "my biggest fan" will remain a mystery for a little while longer. Thanks for looking!

HO, HO, HO,

Today my "biggest fan" and I went Christmas shopping in the big city, so not much to report today.  Almost finished shopping for the kids.  I came home and then ran (well not really, I drove) to my friend, Kim's, Auction House for Ladies Night, purse and jewelry auction.  She is a big supporter of mine, so I try to support her by visiting the Auction House once a month or so. It is always a lot of fun.   I love an auction!  Not much of a gambler, but I like to win at the Auction! So decided to leave you with a picture of a Mirror I made for Kim as a thank you for something she "donated" to my habit.  

Kim's is a great friend and I love her bunches!

My very first Mosaic Mirror

Since I had a really busy day at my Beauty Salon today, I thought that I would just share a picture of the very first Mirror that I decorated.  I have had this mirror for several years and the design that was on the frame was quite out of date.  I was just getting into fused glass and stained glass and had lots of scraps laying around, so this is what I did with them.

 

This was my very first Mosaic Mirror.  I used strips of fire glazed stained glass, Van Gough Glass, and fused

dichroic glass.  I had so many complements on this from my family and friends, now you can't stop me.

 It is so hard to take a picture of a mirror!  There is always a reflection of something, just as long as it isn't me I guess! I tried to smear the reflection in the first photo, but that took forEVER, so you will just have to look at my large clock in this one.  I gave up!  Thanks for looking!

Some of the Mirror Frames I have made in the last year

 Copper and paint

 Glass Mosaic

 Copper Painted Patine

Copper Patina



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