My son and his wife to be were spent the summer with us before returning to Austria so she could finish her graduate studies. They were looking for work and we had been thinking about some type of tile mosaic for the master bath in a little house we’re remodelling.
We batted a few ideas around and off she ran. She designed this, layed it all out on a table in the master bedroom, then transferred the tiles to the walls in the bathroom.
It’ll be hard to sell that place when the time comes.
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She's pretty talented...
and a sweetie, too...
I'm not sure about here father in law, though...
Jim that is awesome!Now when you get it installed give us some follow up pixs.
Wow... that is amazing. I don't think I'd have the patience to cement all those little tiles down, so I SURE wouldn't have the patience to MAKE one of those!
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
Hey! this was better than click and open then close and start again... I like the slide show!
Jim,
One heck of a jigsaw puzzle.
Now slide all of those pieces back into the box and see if you can do it.<G>
Jim,
Nice to see someone willing to put some extras in other than what comes in a box. Also kind of you to support one of us creative types.
-zen
Wonderful!
I appreciate the hard work and creativity!
My bathroom is boring!
Edited 11/21/2005 11:33 pm ET by SquarePeg
She's more than pretty talented.................
So who's the lucky guy that gets to set this masterpiece?
Right up there with Roger's shingle sculpting.
Nice work.
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Sweet!
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Jim
It'll be hard to sell that place when the time comes.
If someone doesn't want to buy the house because of that mosaic then they have no taste!
Looks nice,
Doug
What is she studying?
Music. In a serious way. I'm pretty sure she'll get her postgraduate degree in the coming year, then be accredited to teach Music, Music Theorey, Music History, various instruments...other stuff beyond my knowledge.
It's quite different there in Europe. We went to a performance by a vocal group she sings in when we were in Vienna last year - very formal, lots of people dressed to the nines, not an opera, more like a formal choir. Then a couple days later we were at her parent's house and stopped to listen to a recording of the same performance on the radio.
But yeah, she definately has some visual artistic talent too, huh? Great gal.
First off, I can't get over the fact that you have a son old enough to be getting married. What kind of skin lotion you using? LOL. That mosaic is very very cool.
We're trying to find something similar for the master bath shower wall in our addition. Unfortunately my art skills are limited to crayon drawings of stick people so I'm looking at stuff already made up on the internet. Too bad your DIL to be isn't completing her studies in Boston..... she'd be hired.
Diesel,
zen <--- Masters of Fine Arts in Painting, BFA in Painting and Sculpture, Specialty Interiors custom and decorative painting, and finish carp business. Maine, be there in 2 hours...
Depends on schedule, seriously busy, but it may fall off around holidays. Maybe more than you want to spend, but hit me with an e-mail if you have interest.
-zen
Very, very nice! Love seeing talent at work.
My son and his wife to be were spent the summer with us before returning to Austria so she could finish her graduate studies. They were looking for work and we had been thinking about some type of tile mosaic for the master bath in a little house we're remodelling.
We batted a few ideas around and off she ran. She designed this, layed it all out on a table in the master bedroom, then transferred the tiles to the walls in the bathroom.
Jim - tks for sharing! But as your info above leads one to conclude: Lydia's gone back to Europe, the mosaic is ON THE WALL (installed) so c'mon c'mon - don't leave us hanging here....find a way to get some pics of the installed project and share! (Yeah, "taking pics" is easy - but sometimes taking a good pic in a small room when you might not have a wide-angle lens to help capture its full effect, is another story.)
DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
what is up, no updates w/pictures
don't give us no lectures
we need to see this installed
on the wall :-)
Okay, okay. Geez, just yesterday our son called from Austria and he chewed my a$$ for not getting any after shots posted.
I'll TRY to find some on the hard drive later today (that's if I can take my eyes off the Seahawks game).
I'll TRY to find some on the hard drive later today (that's if I can take my eyes off the Seahawks game).
Ummm.. that was like a WEEK ago! Did you stick them in a different thread?
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
He's old and forgetfull. Probably wandering around the yard in his bathrobe, talking to the trees.
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Just as long as he doesn't start referring to them as "happy little trees".jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
They only qualify as happy if they answer you, and don't have a chip on their shoulder.Waitaminit...
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon. - Napoleon Boneparte
That's beautiful, very nice work.
Thanks, Neil. She's got talent. for sure.
Okay. I looked through all the files and there are not any decent "after" shots. I'll try to remember to take a few shots tomorrow but it will take me a couple days to get the film developed.
That bathroom is only 5x8 so I don't know how good of pictures I can take but I'll try. You goofballs might have to see it in person.
Kool mosaic Jimmie . What did she use to cut the small tile wedges?
Those are glass tiles, Don. I'm pretty sure she snapped them with a pair of end nippers. Or maybe she broke a bunch of pieces and then sorted through to get the ones she wanted to use. (got the beer on ice for Aunt Tilly's visit on Thankgiving?)
Tim Kline - I know one of the things they tried was putting 2" wide packing tape across sections of the mosaic, then lifting big chunks of it at a time. She had a wheel barrow with a piece of plywood on it at one point for transferring tile, too, but I think she abondoned that idea.
I really don't know what she/they did. I was up to my butt in alligators elsewhere. I keep thinking she'll read this and answer all these questions, but she's a bit shy, I guess.
With aunt Tilly coming this year we decided to pull the old cow tank out of the shed in back and fill it with ice and kegs. That keeps her away from my pumpkin pie if shes on the back porch drinking . Man that woman drinks faster than the turbines at the hoover dam .
I don't mind the drinkin', but when MY Aunt Tilly gets a few in her she wants to cuddle. That's bad.
OHhh nooo.
Jim, that mural is very cool! And no splinters!!! ;-)
Hey Jim, hi y'all, this is Lydia!
Thank you for saying all these nice things about the mosaic! I found a picture of part of the mosaic when it was already grouted - hope it's ok for you, Jim, that I put it here!
Since I had never done any tilework before, I didn't know what would be the best way, so while working, I changed my methods a couple times.
What was best in the end was to lay out a figure (like a fish,...) and its immediate surrounding "water" on the table, glue some transparent tape on it and put in on the wall like that. Laying out all the background on the table was actually just to help me measure, if the tiles would be enough.
I cut all the stuff with a glass cutter (hope I am using the right words here, my mothertongue is German, so...) - small sharp wheel on pliers, that worked really well.
It just takes some time, when there's a couple hundred tiles to cut.
Thanks for letting me take part in your discussion!
Auf Wiedersehen, liebe Gruesse!
Lydia
Hey Lydia, nice work.
We were lucky enough to view some of your wedding photo's when Kathy and Jim visited us in August. Even emailed Todd for them during their visit, you know how adept they are with the internet.
Don't be a stranger.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Hello Sweet Fraulein! What it is?
Hey! You aren't peeking at the label on that Xmas package, are you?
Jim, of course I won't peek at the presents! (Couldn't even if I wanted, Todd picked them up from the postoffice and hid them... oh he knows me well...!) Thanks a lot again, can't wait till Christmas to finally open it!
JohnT8, perfect german grammar! :-) Thanks for resizing the pics! (should've thought about that before)
And yes, the coming-down-ceiling was a bit tricky...
Turned out nifty though with some extra grout... (nifty- Thanks Jim, learnt that word from you in July, became one of my favourites!)
This is a family type forum, Lydia. So please don't mention any of the other words you might have learned working with us this summer, okay?
That bathrrom looks great, thanks again.
Glad Lydia posted the pics . and the expaination of cuting the tile . I have cut glass ,but nothing that small . That gal has talent ,you better be good to her and send her another box of goodies for Christmas.
She's a keeper, for sure.
You have a nice Thanksgiving, Don?
It was great . stopped at three different relatives places . Good food no cleanup. You?
Aunt Tilly didn't get too drunk ? no snuggleing
It was fine. Only had one of our kids here but another family we've known for 25 years came for the day and that was great. Thanksgiving's our big deal here. Xmas is a lot more subdued.
Aunt Tilly was a lady this year. But it could have gone either way.
Added a couple of the last pics to the Flash.
jt8
"The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde
John what program do you use to create those files?
Flash, made by Macromedia. Much of the web animation (ads and other) is Flash. If you right-click on a web animation and one of the pop-up options is "about Macromedia Flash player...", you know that animation was made in Flash. Pretty amazing program.
jt8
"The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde
I'm guessing that also means pretty expensive?
They tend to lump it into their 'studio' package with a bunch of other programs.. and suddenly the pricetag goes into the hundreds of dollars (or more).
I'm using Flash MX ver 6 (not the full Studio package). Probably 2 or 3 versions ago. When I purchased it (2 or 3 years back for a class), the university bookstore was getting the new version in and clearing out the old... so it was 50% off. I think I paid less than $90. Ver 6 probably is missing some bells & whistles of the latest version, but 6 still does more than I'll ever use, so its fine for me.
When anyone asks me about non-game software, I often suggest they run by the local community college book store and see if they have 'educational' versions of the software. Usually substantially discounted (sometimes its the same full version of a program, sometimes it's slightly abbreviated).jt8
"The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde
Frau Blodgett? Vielen dank for the updated pics. That project turned out really well! Glad you posted the pics, because we were getting old waiting for Jim to post them. :)
Shoot, I thought they were putting it on the floor! didn't realize it was for the walls. That corner looks a bit funky (ceiling coming down too?), that must have been a job to get it lined up there.
I've resized the pics for the dial-up folks.
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jt8
"The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde
Edited 12/5/2005 12:15 pm by JohnT8
Pretty work, Lydia. It's also comforting to know that Jim wasn't just making all this up! Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
I don't know about Lydia, but the tiler I use said she uses a "jewler's saw" on glass tile. Shards everywhere.
Do we get to see a pic of the son and the bride?
Very patient lady...yer sons a lucky guy.
Mazal Tov
Be that Blodgett kid's wet saw
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When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
I'll try to remember to take a few shots tomorrow but it will take me a couple days to get the film developed.
Film... I've heard of that. Wasn't that used back in the days of typewriters and TV's without remotes (all 4 channels to watch)? And people listened to their 8-track tapes... :)
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
"You goofballs might have to see it in person"
So the WestFest at the Blodgett's is back on!
Fantastic ... I heard a rumor at RiverFest about such things ... I might have even started that rumor ... glad to see yer finally on board!
OK everyone ... to Jim's bathroom we go ....
( get it .... "go" ..... ??? )
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I think the design looks nice but ...
It seems foolish to lay all of the background out on a table first.
Layout the fish and plants on th table. Glue them in place on the wall. Fill in the sand and water on the wall.
very nice,
i have always wanted to do something similar.
how did you transfer all of the little pieces to the bathroom wall ?
carpenter in transition