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Now that I have the proper content width for displaying photos, I thought it was high time I posted some of the best photos (and some of the best times!) from this year here. These photos of numerous cute and amazing cakes were all taken at the Sugar Art Show – the largest competition of [...]

A recent trip to Disneyland (photos should follow) spurred on a new re-design idea – convert the music room into an (enchanted?) musical tiki room based off of this Amanda Visell piece created for the 45th Anniversary of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room:
Check out Amanda Visell’s other art, too – I like it so much [...]

Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for.  I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow.
1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter.  I’ve been ‘in love’ [...]

Well – I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made – three tree-themed smalti [...]

The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town.  While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]

I decided to figure out what mosaic I was going to do once I got to my 2nd class and saw the colored tiles that I had ordered up close and personal, and once I saw them I know what I wanted to do.  (It was a little disconcerting to see that most everyone else [...]

My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class – as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art:
I chose lots of blues and greens – at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but then [...]

My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class – I’m so excited!  We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it!  The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]