treasure mosaic
our family is about to make a big move across the country this month, from virginia to california… and in big moves there are so many little details. N and i have been having fun planning for her new bedroom and her very own bathroom in the new house. (we share a bathroom now in virginia, so i’m psyched that she gets her own in the next place!)
N wants a purple bedroom, so today we took a field trip to home depot to look at all of the color swatches of paint from lovely lavender to weeping wisteria. trying to strike a balance between a child-like, fun purple and a contemporary, muted, hip purple. not simple. (any suggestions?)
purples
in planning for N’s new bathroom, we decided to make a mosaic for the wall. N’s aunt bought her all of these adorable ceramic rice bowls when she was a baby, and inevitably half of them broke. being the crafty momma that i am, i save broken shards of cuteness in a jar in my art studio for times like these.
repurposed treasures
we chose some pieces of the dishes, some shiny purple marbles, and N wanted to add the purple shells she found in nags head last summer. we had a purple hand print made on a tile at a festival earlier in the year, so we incorporated that, too.
we bought a stepping stone kit at the craft store to press our treasures into the wet cement. (i opted for this over the glue and grout method i have done before, and i have to say that the pressing into wet cement method is much easier.) we didn’t use the tiles that came with our kit this time around… we wanted to personalize N’s mosaic. so if you have broken dishes or special shells, rocks, marbles, tiles lying around your house, this is an inexpensive and fun thing to do with them. i left two holes at the top through which i will string wire (and maybe some ribbon – we’ll see) to hang the mosaic on her wall.
excited to display this in N's new bathroom (name blurred out)
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Like this idea a lot — is the finished piece really heavy?
Couple of suggestions on the the purple room — don’t go with only one color of purple ~ join hip colors with whimsical design elements. Maybe roll a greyish mauve or lavendar or really pale lilac, then add some plum polka dots or wide grapey stripes or burgandy daisies or a deep blackberry silhouette of animals or (you get my drift…)