Out to lunch ... and dinner and supper and snack and ...

Left home Sunday to help celebrate what I thought was my mother's 95th birthday ... She wasn't too happy about that thought, as she vehemently pointed out that she was just 94 ... No matter, we're enjoying each others company but boy are we overeating... I'm thinking I'll have to get some bigger jeans when I get back home, either that or find a recycling hobby that requires more physical activity. (Back in a few minutes ... somebody's serving a fruit plate.)

A quick email message on my Blackberry was from an email list I subscribe to. It announced a site my readers might be interested in. Take a look at this neat woodworking blog. It's fairly new but I suspect it's going to get a lot of followers. I haven't scrolled through the entire blog because guess what ... it's time to eat again. I believe this is my fifth food session today and it's only six thirty. (To be continued in a few minutes.)

Back. Been to a lot of craft shops, stopped at a few yard sales, enjoyed one heavy rainfall, and sampled some things like deep fried cheesecake, Arooga potatoes, Pennsylvania Dutch pretzels, red beet eggs, and a few things I don't want to sample again.

Be back blogging next week with an update on the table top. Meanwhile, it's snack time ... again.

What a Find!

My buddy Kat (Kathleen to her mom and dad) found this great set of tile samples at a teacher's resource exchange. That's where outgoing teachers buy/sell supplies they won't need next year for sale to teachers who might need them the next year. Sometimes they bring stuff that belongs hubbies or wives that aren't resources ...

She bought these miniature tiles - samples I guess - and gave them to me. I think I will try to see how they can fit into the used-materials mosaic table top (previous post) I'm working on.

Progress and then... Pow!

The mosaic fossil flower table top is starting to take shape. In fact, it's almost designing itself. I found a bunch of extra green glass pieces that look so much like grass that it's scary.

All was going well and progress was, well, progressing ... that is until the tip of my glass cutter just disappeared. Poof. One minute it was gliding across a piece of glass and the next minute it wasn't. I didn't know these things broke. I guess this project is just meant to be, though because on my way to the grocery store I pulled over at a garage sale to look at some scrap material and guess what was there ... a glass cutter.

See what I mean?

Now that the project is taking shape,I'm rethinking some of the finishing. I'm leaving a border of about an inch and I intend to put a frame there but I'm not so sure I'll be pouring liquid acrylic to smooth it out. I was thinking about going to the home improvement store to get some thicker tile adhesive but I changed my mind. I have a half a container of Weldbond (boy does that stuff hold!) that seems to be doing the job. We'll see how it plays out.

Also, I was going to put a coat of white paint on the fiber board but I changed my mind on that as well. I like the tint the beige brings to some of the light weight glass.
Frank T Ross & Sons #1395 Gallon Weldbond Adhesive