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<\/p>\nBecause I never have enough different projects on the go at once.<\/p>\n
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I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with all the areas of walk-through floor, the bits between “rooms” in my entirely open plan ground floor. I had about a million tiles of varying size and colour (though mostly in the monochrome spectrum) and a selection of glass cubes and bars in shiny goldy red colours. I laid out a few variations and couldn’t get happy. Sent the most promising one to all my friends for advice and opinions and got a whole gamut of responses, but the one that tipped it for me was “it looks like the sort of thing you’d see in a wanky, corporate headquarters…” so I canned that design and came up with the one you see here. Which I’m pretty happy with. I think it’s my least favourite mosaic in the house, but that’s still a fair accolade.<\/p>\n
I finished the above section and grouted it so we could actually walk around the house at all. And then yesterday and today I had a marathon session to cut (or break) and lay out the section inside the front door so we can get from the kitchen to the fridge.<\/p>\n
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The cat was most exceedingly helpful during the laying of the tiny cubes and bars. I had to chuck him across the room at one point.<\/p>\n
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I’m pretty happy with the way it came out. Grouting tomorrow and then moving on to something else, because I can’t help but leave every mosaic half finished for a significant period of time. It’s my thing.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile!…<\/p>\n
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Ben made a pizza shovel out of one of the very thin pieces from that sycamore tree.<\/p>\n
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It may be the most beautiful object I possess. I love it.<\/p>\n
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There was a bit of mossy bark still stuck to the handle which we left in hopes it will just survive, which I know is wishful thinking, but it’s charming AF while it lasts.<\/p>\n
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Ben was really in his element creating it and it was wonderful to see.<\/p>\n
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Bring on pizza season (which has to wait til we want to be building huge fires in the house, so… probably at least September or October.)<\/p>\n
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Ben stuck a couple of oak pegs into the kitchen pillar for it to hang in the meantime.<\/p>\n
And in other news: another load of firewood. Hopefully that’s the last one we’ll need to get in before winter, but I’m interviewing another local firm for supplying because the ones I’ve been using have been so unreliable in communications. However, this last load was actually quite high quality. How annoying that they are complicating my decision to fire them.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Julian looks good with an axe.<\/p>\n
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