As part of a gardening project I decided to ‘tart’ up some old flower pots to add colour and interesting focal points to shady areas of my garden and as a feature for pots containing cacti. So after a visit to a local garden centre, where the lady owner tiled anything and everything, I felt inspired to try my hand at mosaics.
To get a feel for handling and cutting the glass tiles AND, not covering everything in glue, I started with four basic coasters. Considering I have twelve fingers and four thumbs I am ‘reasonably’ pleased with the result.
Stage 1.
Glue the border tiles to the wooden coaster.
Okay, I know the border tiles aren’t straight. I was procrastinating elsewhere and by the time I realised the glue had set!
Stage 2
Once the border tiles were set, I cut some tiles in random shapes to fill in the centre.
Stage 3
I mixed the black grout to the consistency of peanut butter and then applied with a small trowel and damp sponge. The one thing the teacher drilled into my brain was do not wash the grout down the sink or toilet. IT BLOCKS THE DRAINS.
This is a good hobby if you want to be creative while you write.
Next project: Plant pot
Piglet in Portugal 
These look totally awesome!! I am so glad that you are blogging again.
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Thank you 🙂 Unfortunately, I got a little too distracted on a writing site which was taking up all my time. I need to visit all my old blogging buddies and catch up their news.
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Other elements of life take over, don’t they?
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Nice new hobby Carole. The coasters look nice, looking forward to the plant pots. Many years ago I used mirror offcuts cut in little squares to glue to pots and they looked very pretty.
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Someone in our group covered a surfboard with mirror tiles and then used black grout. Looked awesome!
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dear mrs piglet
thnankyou very interesting hobby which I hear the romans where a dab hand at !
could I ask a favour though, could you contact your tile-mosaic mentor and ask her if she has ever attached ceramic tiles to metal and if so did she use normal tile cement or another adhesive ?
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Hi Eric, okay, will do. (I wont know until next week)
I am about to embark on a project sticking glass tiles to little metal pots. I was going to use all purpose glue. Aki near Lagoa have a good selections of glue.
Are you a member of Facebook? If so there is a group called Mosaic Mentoring.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MosaicMentoring/
I could ask there if you are not on FB
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