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Hello Everyone, I’ve missed you all. If you know me you know tech is not my jam. I discovered this week that I didn’t have my email for my website set up correctly so I just got a drop of over 100 unread emails dating back to 2020.! Yikes!!! If you wrote to me via my Bread + Butter website in the last two years and I didn’t reply – my deepest apologies! I wasn’t ignoring you I just didn’t know your messages exhisted. How embarrassing, right?! I will be going back to reach out to those who wrote to me. If you wonder why things are so quiet… now we know!
Back in 2022, I am in my studio continuing to slowly create some new things for the world and also seek out new avenues for getting my work out in Portland. Over the summer I decided to take on creating three giant mosaic concrete pots using the garden-planter shop right on the corner from my studio: Little-Baja. Little Baja has been selling garden pots and garden accessories for well over 30 years on the corner of SE Burnside and 15th St. in Portland – even longer than I’ve been doing mosaics! Now they will be acting as my outdoor “gallery” for mosaics on pots and perhaps more. Tell them I sent you.
If you have followed me on Facebook or Instagram you’ve likely seen these garden pieces in progress, but WoW do they shine in the outdoor light. Please take a look at your first chance and let me know what you think. The largest pot is 36” tall and decorated “in the round” with a contemporary red dogwood theme, one of my favorite Spring trees. The second largest pot is 24” tall and decorated “in the round” with yellow prairie coneflowers blowing in the wind. I definitely drew on my childhood memories with this one! I think I even sang a few bars of ”Oklahoma” while I was working! It took me back to the many summer walks we took out on the section line roads, picking wildflower bouquets for my mom and collecting the ”new” aluminum cans for pennies for our piggy banks. The smallest pot is 12” tall and decorated with my favorite flower, the daisy, in three tones of white with a bright green background. I will forever think of the movie Harold and Maude every time I see daisies in bloom. Beautiful simplicity.
These three differently styled pots will give folks a good idea of what I can do with ceramic tile, but I plan to do some smaller examples using marble, stone, and stained glass as well. So far I am sticking with flat-sided pots in order to allow the pieces to be larger, and the process to be simpler. Lifting and moving these heavy-walled pots has been incredibly challenging. Being able to lay them on their sides has been very helpful. I imagine these pots in your garden acting as focal points – adding a splash of color and interest even during times the plants themselves are dormant.
I also create and install mosaic designs for stair risers, concrete walls, patios, and other touches to enhance your environments. My fifteen years as a landscape gardener is passed, but the garden is still one of my favorite places to be. Adding art to your garden is one of my passions.
I am currently creating a table/stool made of styrofoam encased in fiberglass mesh and concrete of a similar style. It’s ready for it’s mosaic as soon as I decide on a design.
Additionally,I have nine small concrete pots I will be decorating with mosaic in the coming month, all in preparation for the Holiday season that always seems to take me by surprise. I hope you’ll keep me in mind as you plan your gifting. Although these pots are a bit heavy for mailing, I have a lot of beautiful things in my online shop. Welp, back to it!