the adventures of mosaic on a stick

This is is Tara’s amazing yacht party, were you invited?

remember the pig?

fruits and vegetables see if you can guess what Maria’s mood is with her Sexy Carrots

and Lori’s mood? with Solitary Pear

Remember the nest Maria was building, well here is the egg for the nest that Maria Built

we will have more on this story later…

We have this friend (Iris) she lives in our neighborhood and ever since we opened in 2004 she has been sharing her work with us, check out her amazing bottles. If you are in the neighborhood come see them in real life. Her bottle’s remind me of some other work I really love check these out http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_haiti_young_btls.html

Lori

Scouty the wonder pup was at the stick today as she is every Monday

here she is contemplating which super hero she is http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/

Which Superhero are you?

 The other day I was out at one of our suppliers picking up tile (of course) and I decided to check out their show room while I waited, the new sicis display was out http://www.sicis.com/beautiful glass tiles, we sell a lot of there stuff its great. What freaked me out was they also sell many pre-made mosaic, also really nice, well made, clever, funny, not what I expected or wanted to see, why because its our competition, ours and every other mosaic artist out there who wants to get commercial work and its a factory… so who makes this stuff?

Maybe I shouldn’t worry, but I am, I lost two jobs last year to a computer that could do the work faster and for less money, not better… but this stuff is pretty damn cool and I know it is not cheap, but it may be cheaper than any artist can do and its ….  outsourced no artists were hired to make this stuff…

the pieces above Maria and I made to go on the sculptures at Midtown http://www.greenemosaic.com/index.cfm?&id=49

http://www.midtownglobalmarket.org/

  they look kind of like the fabric inspired pieces made at the sicis factory

talk to me about this….

Thursday night we were honored to help Tim Celebrate over 1 year of work on his Griffin

the stick was packed with class people (trash to treasure) regulars working and about 25 of Tim’s  SCA friends http://www.sca.org/welcome.html Maria and I were a little disapointed there were no costumes, they brought a delious spread of food and beer and entertained us with amazing stories of Halloween’s past and present and future We are hoping to be invited to his next party…

Tomorrow a bunch of us stick people are going to see Tara’s play doesn’t she look like a stage manager!

THE CRIMINAL MIND
JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 4, 2007 Directed by Kevin T. HouleBlending comedy and suspense,The Criminal Mind is a “Murder Up North”-style thriller. A psychiatrist and his mistress plot the perfect murder during a weekend at the cabin, but their perfect plan unravels as the busybody caretaker keeps dropping by with increasingly alarming news. Move over, Agatha Christie, as we present the area premiere of The Criminal Mind by talented local actor and playwright, Michael Paul Levin.http://www.lakeshoreplayers.com/contact-us.html

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maria builds a nest, no she is not pregnant!

but she is nesting, her is her nest with two hands, she is working on two more