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| My finished chest! |
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For my 30th birthday last November, my beautiful sister Ellenya gave me a wooden miniature chest of drawers to decorate! I knew immediately that I wanted to use paint and mosaic to decorate the chest - and I have been slowly working on it throughout this year =).
I started with a rough plan of what I wanted to with the mosaic. I wanted the sides of the chest of drawers to resemble a garden - with the top of the chest to represent the sky above the garden. My design would include flowers, plants, insects, birds, and a rainbow on the top!
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| The rough plan for my mosaic design. |
I had collected a lot of different coloured glass pieces, and some special little ceramic tiles - which I thought would be perfect to use for this project!
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| My box of glass bits and pieces for mosaic making! |
I had also collected some handy mosaic tools over the years - like my glass cutter, grouting tools, and a smasher/breaker tool - so I was ready to go!
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| My cutter tool with some cut glass pieces! |
To begin, I sketched a rough design (based on my plan) onto the bare wooden chest in pencil - to use as a guide when I was gluing the tiles down. I started with the top of the chest, cutting some red glass tiles into three, lengthwise.
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| Some cut glass - ready to be glued on to create the red part of the rainbow! |
Before long, I was ready to start gluing!
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For the next stage in this project, see the the next blog post in this series: My Mosaic Chest of Drawers - Part 2! =).
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