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Old English Rose Mosaic Garden Bird Bath

21/5/2015

Old English Rose Mosaic Garden Bird Bath

A customer asked me to make her a bird bath in the Canal Folk Rose design, but changing the rose colours to red and pinks. It completely changed the feel of the design and I decided to expand on it and came up with this Old English Rose design. It's got the cottage garden feel, but it's quite contemporary in feel as well as these types of blousy blooms are on trend at the moment too.

Modern Moorish Plant Pot Set

17/3/2015

These mosaic plant pots were designed for use with succulent or cactus plants, so the mosaic design needed to have a feel of desert, ancient culture, dryness, and age, but I wanted it to feel modern too to fit into home decor. I think the end design has worked well. The pots have a feel of Morocco, Aztec, Roman and the Moors from ancient Mediterranean, but they have a touch of modern too with their iridescent and translucent tiles adding interest and shine. The design is called Modern Moorish and they would look great as part of a pot display on a Mediterranean style patio, or in a Moroccan feel courtyard. They would also look great on their own as a stand alone display on a shelf in the home.

New Bird Baths and a Coming Soon

8/3/2015

Pastel Anemones Bird Bath

Peacock Jewel Bird Bath

Modern Moorish Plant Pot

Two new bird bath designs that have been added to the collection are the Pastel Anemones and Peacock Jewel. Both have iridescent tiles used to add some metallic sparkle. The other picture shows the new pot range I'm working on, Modern Moorish. Designed for succulents or cactus, it will be part of a set of 3 of the same size with the same design on each one, but with the colours swapped around. I think I will have to make a matching bird bath, so that will be coming soon too. Keep an eye on my Facebook page to see the work in progress on these designs.

Love Butterflies and Little Lion and Lioness

15/2/2015

Butterfly Love Mosaic Garden Bird Bath 25cm

Another colour version of the Butterfly Love design, with it's double design of butterflies one way up and two tone hearts the other. This palette is a lovely soft pastel one with a few iridescent tiles in it for added interest.

The Butterfly Love palette was also used in these two water dishes. The Lion and Lioness dishes were designed with outdoor cats in mind, so they could get fresh water in the garden and look into the saucer and see the lion looking back.

Lion and Lioness Mosaic Garden Water Dish 17cm

More new designs

5/2/2015

Fish Shoal Garden Bird Bath

Been busy creating a few updated palettes on old designs. First is this Fish Shoal bird bath. I decided to add a splash of colour to the blues and greens by adding a few goldfish in. I think it's worked well.

The next design I've tried a new palette on is the Elements design. This time I've used a black background with black grout to make the rainbow lines of colour shards stand out. So it's like seams of diamond crystals in coal.

Rainbow Elements Garden Bird Bath

Copper Verdigris Bird Nest Box

I've also made a wirework decorated bird box with wire daisies finished with a Copper Verdigris effect, which is great for the birds to use, and a nice garden decoration too.

Final new design for this post actually turned into two designs. The first design was the Blue Butterfly Water Dish. Then a Facebook follower spotted a second design within the butterflies. So I've created a bird bath with the butterflies that if you flip upside down you get two tone hearts too creating Butterfly Lovers.

Butterfly Lovers Garden Bird Bath

Blue Butterfly Water Dish

Roses Mosaic Topiary Standard Tree Plaque

17/1/2015

Roses Topiary Plaque

This is an idea I've had for a while, to make mosaic topiary and I've finally managed to try it out, and I think it's worked. The mosaic plaque is designed to be hung on a wall or fence, then you get to design a display by adding your own choice of pot, filled with whatever plants and flowers you choose, and you link the pot and plaque with a stem of your choice too. No pests and diseases, no pruning, permanent full bloom flowers, what's not to like?

Roses Range

12/1/2015

Here are the three new roses designs that have now been added to the bird bath section. Canal Folk Roses, Vintage Pink Roses, and China Blue Roses.

Roses Bird Baths

7/1/2015

Pink Roses Mosaic Garden Bird Bath

Two new bird bath designs that I have created this week, that were heading for the website, but sold on Facebook before they got here. The first is the bird bath version of the Pink Roses hanging heart (also sold on Facebook before it got listed here). The Pink Roses Bird Bath also has the iridescent roses as well as the matt pinks which adds interest to the design, and uses black grout to really pick out the colours.

China Blue Roses Mosaic Garden Bird Bath

The other roses design is the China Blue Roses. The idea for this design was that the blue roses were representing a pattern that you'd find on a china plate, then the white was a nod to the china being broken in pieces and used to mosaic. I used grey grout on this one because I wanted it quite soft to tie in the white a bit, and the grey reminded me of the rough edges you get on broken blue and white stoneware.

If you follow me on Facebook you can see these designs taking shape, and if you're interested you can message me to see if it's available. You can also message me there if you've seen something that's sold and you can see if I can recreate it for you. You can also use my Contact Form for that too.

A Few New Designs

10/8/2014

I've been everso busy, so apologies for not keeping this blog updated with new designs as often as I should. To see the new designs as they get made the best place to follow me is on Facebook where I can share the designs in stages.

Anyway here are some of the designs added since my last blog post.

The Hedgehog design Water Dishes are great for small birds to use to bathe in, and larger birds to drink from, during the day and then in the evenings and at night hedgehogs and other wildlife can get a fresh drink too.

There is a new Heart Hanging Decoration with a lovely soft palette design.

And a new bird bath called Elements has a bit of fire, water, earth, ice and stone to the design.

Deep Sea Mosaic Bird Bath

12/7/2014

I've said before I think my mosaic designs fall into two categories. They either look like a fabric design, or a ceramic design. This Deep Sea Bird Bath is definitely a ceramic style design. Each colour line of fish has one iridescent one in it to add metallic shine and interest to the whole design.