Angela is making a tiled support to go under a potted plant. She used a large rounded piece of plywood as the base (originally shaped like a ladybug, but it ended up having its head cut off).
Chantal experimented with using a metal tray as a base for her mosaic. We weren't sure how the tiles were going to adhere to the smooth metal, but the glue did its job and the piece grouted just fine.
And here's Jordan's grouted hotpot/trivet, started a couple of months ago:
I have gone back to making another mosaic tray.
I started months ago by painting a large (10"x13") tile in an abstract motif, using acrylic paints:
Some of the paint came off the tiles during the grouting (bummer!), but I decided that the whitish edges didn't look bad, especially with the white grout. The bits of paint that flaked off the painted tile shards somehow got imbedded into (or on top of) the grouted lines, and I decided to leave them in, and varnished over them. It gives the grout a speckled look, which I think looks alright with all the other bits of texture and colour in the piece.
Following Tamsen's instructions for finishing the wood, I sanded the tray edges, and decided to use a stain before finishing with shellac. I ended up using a dark oil-based wood stain, ebony black. I gave the tray edges one (and a half-ish) coats of stain, because I liked the lighter colour of the original wood showing through the stain streaks. I didn't do a great job with the edges (where the wood meets the grout), and had to paint/stain over the outer edges of the grout. This felt like cheating, but it made the finished piece neat enough.
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