Canvas Shoes!

You can tell Spring is on its way when you can ditch your winter boots! Yippee! Don't get me wrong - I love my leather boots and they've lasted me a good 4 years, now. They were from 'NEXT' if you're wondering. But I am so happy to be in my little white canvas flats.  

Had a LOVELY morning at Mount Hall, again.  We decorated little bowls with strawberries and then had a strawberry cream tea.   

Back at the studio now and getting ready for the Monday Mosaics Class. The kiln is not quite ready to open and I am hoping the ladybirds I made for Bridget have come out ok!

Had a really nice suprise through the post! I worked with Oakwood at the Rossendale Trust last year on the  Macclesfield Town Football Community Mosaic and they put a little piece in their newsletter.  Sweet!

Macclesfield Town FC Community Mosaic is Complete!

After months of hard graft by myself and hundreds of local people, the Peaks & Plains and Macclesfield Town FC mosaic mural is up!  


Tom and Mark from B. Melling put the panels up whilst I directed (and got incredibly sunburned!) and Sean finished off the grouting.


Lads from The Adelphi Mill group are cutting out the silhouettes of the footballers as we speak and they will go up tomorrow.

The North End Wall at the Moss Rose, Macclesfield

Tom and Mark putting the first and largest panel up...

...three down 35 to go...

Sean Lloyd of Cavalry Tiling showing the panel produced by Cre8 Youth group and Melanie Lloyd of Tameside Social Services Re-enablement team.

the lads are really motoring now... 

 

Sean putting the finishing touches to the logos. 

The completed mosaic from the right:

 The completed mosaic from the left side: 

The footballer silhouettes being cut out by Kieran of Adelphi Mill Properties, Bollington.

All the silhouettes are of actual players. They will be painted and installed tomorrow at the ground.

The Stroke Club, The Mayfield Centre, Macclesfield

Well, the biggest group yet!

Last night I took a panel for the Macclesfield Town FC Community mosaic to the Stroke Club in Macc.  

There was a lovely atmosphere and EVERYONE had a go!

I think there were a few who were bitten by the mosaic bug and even those who didn't fancy having a go at first, did.

This panel shows the fancy dress match where 'The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' scored a goal during a Macclesfield Town FC match.

Thanks to the whole group who dried some of the green tiles for me.  As I told them - approximately 42000 tiles will have been used on this project when it is complete and pretty much all of them have been donated by the fabulous World of Mosaics in Macclesfield. Thanks Dean!

Park Lane School Mosaic

I loved working with the guys at Park Lane School the first time and I loved it again when I went on Wednesday.

We had a lovely chilled out day...

...concentrating....

...gluing...

...and laughing!

I'm so impressed with the way this panel has come on - well done, again, guys!

Community Mosaic at Adelphi Mill

I can always rely on my regular helpers, Ruth and Moira to help out with community mosaics.  Thanks also to my new helper Pat, with Phillipa, Nicky and Sue, hopefully becoming part of the gang too!

The ladies worked hard finishing off the mosaics started at Ash Grove Primary School,  Christ The Kind Primary School and the Youth Federation.

Mosaics as far as the eye can see!

We did have several brews and lots of laughs but oh, what a busy bunch we were!

See you next Monday girls!