Mosaic appreciation around Disney’s Animal Kingdom
December 30th, 2009 | kristinThis guy was soooo cute! Looks like rocks, stones, mirror, bottles and other found objects in concrete and colored concrete.
Substrate Rescue, Completed
November 19th, 2009 | kristinHere it is! From trash, to retail display window. Thank u to the sweet little house on my commute to school who threw this piece out. I used different types of red and white glass and did sort of a color-block effect. We grouted with a warm, earthy color (sahara tan). I matched it up [...]
Substrate Rescue, Part 2
November 10th, 2009 | kristinIt’s another garbage day today here in Lakeland, and before I post today’s curbside goody, I felt like I should finish this. My vision… A window window display for Picassoz studio. I will figure out what to display in it later… Ornaments, jewelry, gift cards? Let’s see what happens today!
Substrate Rescue. A curbside find to mosaic.
November 3rd, 2009 | kristinI “updated my facebook status” yesterday that I had an urge to mosaic something old, not expensive antiques, more like old junk (thinking flea market vintage). Well, my sister Shelly commented “street shopping” which to our family means driving around on garbage day… Which is today here in Lakeland. So, whether she was [...]
Make a broken tile mosaic bench as a memorial
September 7th, 2009 | kristinIt’s no fun assembling a memorial for a 21 year old. Somehow just days after this young man’s death in a car accident, while my stepson and all his friends were grieving, suddenly I pictured this tile project as a tangible way to grieve. I had to act fast, as people [...]
Local Businesses love support of their community
September 7th, 2009 | kristinIts just so sweet knowing that people out in the community think about how they can help local business. In the season where schools and non-profits are working hard for their fund-raising campaigns, I got a call this week that a lady wanted to donate discontinued sample pool tiles to our studio. She [...]
A little piece of artwork at the airport
August 1st, 2009 | kristini just had to snap this fabulous mosaic work atwolfgang puck cafe at chicago o’hare airport. if you even look inside the restaurant, in the bottom right corner, you notice the mosaic work is still very prevelant throughout the entire cafe. it’s so fun!! just wanted to share this…as a mosaic artist, it just [...]



