Bats in the Belfry or Butterflies in the Bath...

I have often been accused of the prior, especially when I decided to create Mosaic Butterflies for the Bath... but I got a lot of support from my friends, Lori, Linda, Roe, Larry, Martina and Bettijean...you're all to blame!!!

Way back in January, while in AZ, I decided I needed to do some mosaic work for our guest bath at home. I was into butterflies for some reason, so I searched the internet for shower curtains with butterflies...one thing lead to another. After purchasing the new shower curtain, our Mosaic “captain” Lori offered her husband John’s woodworking skills to cut out the wood butterfly shapes for me. So I photographed and enlarged each butterfly, 2 dragonflies and 3 handsome bee images for John to use as patterns. Magically, within a few days, I found a neat little pile of wood cutouts in my locker...

After a quick stop at the glass shop the process started. Glass was cut and glued to the forms and the pieces were grouted. Then I strung some beads on fine wire and wrapped the end of the wire around pipe cleaners to create colorful “bodies and antennas”. It only took a month after arriving home in mid-March to find time to put them up on the wall. That's why you're seeing a January project in April. And what a wonderful surprise, when you enter the bath and look in the large mirror on your left and see the reflection of butterflies from the wall behind you. It's amazing what trouble we can get into when we have lots of time to play Arizona style!!! Better than BATS don't you think?